I love autumn and there’s not many people I know who don’t enjoy the seasonal change. All the leaves changing colour, the natural foraging of blackberries and sloes, and the joys of collecting shiny conkers from their cases. Like most children N loves picking up conkers, and the threatening dying off of horse chestnut trees…
Embracing autumn with hot chocolate bar ideas and 4 recipes
Over the last week or so, autumn has really hit us. I’m still holding onto the no tights/socks, but we’ve had a lot of rain. And the evenings and mornings are so much darker. That means I’ve started drinking hot chocolate more regularly. I don’t drink tea or coffee, so hot chocolate is my only…
Project 52 2019 week 41 – Conker Alley
We’re rapidly heading deeper into autumn. We’ve turned on our heating in the evenings (and the mornings although I always think it’s too hot and we don’t need it on then). And it’s been raining a lot. Here’s this week’s Project 52, we’re onto week 41. On Sunday, it was a quiet day – similar…
How to love the school run and not feel like an outsider
Going into September and even further into autumn, I see so many mums on Twitter and Facebook being really upset at their child starting school as well as worrying about the school run. I’m obviously hard as nails because apart from having a little ‘aw’ moment as N went off happily into school, I’ve never…
Staying in the historic Imperial Hotel Blackpool
I love a modern, clean lines, contemporary hotel, but sometimes it’s nice to enjoy some beautiful old fashioned charm and spectacular historical décor in a hotel. We’ve stayed in a few old fashioned spectacular architecture hotels in the past – Queens Hotel Southsea and The Grand Eastbourne – and I was pleased there was a…
