I absolutely love these beautiful photographs by Gingerlillytea.
They have a hazy, innocent charm that makes me long for spring days and picnics and make me remember what it’s like to feel free. I want to kick off my shoes and go running through the fields with flowers in my hair. And one day very soon…I will.

Happy [...]

There comes a time when a lady just has to stop procrastinating and get her house in order…and with the move back to the big smoke just around the corner…I see no better time to get organised.
So, whilst with the move coming up it may take me until April to get everything 100% sorted (which [...]

So, today, like so many days before it, is hospital day.
Oh, the joy. I can’t tell you how excited I am by the prospect of sitting around for hours, waiting for a specialist who is too busy to care to tell me that there’s nothing they can do except operate…which will possibly not work anyway.
But [...]

Every now and then I come across a new blog or website that I absolutely love and it becomes my new favourite.
There are many reasons for my fickleness. The blog can be pretty. Or heartwarming. Or clever. Or anything really, I’m not fussed. I guess it just has to make me smile.
And make me smile [...]

“The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well” Elizabeth Kubler Ross

Some of the most fantastic, beautiful people I know have the lowest self esteem, and that really upsets me.
They tell me they’re not tall enough, not slim enough, not pretty enough, not clever enough, [...]

I love Photographs. Taking them, looking at them, talking about them…
I’m also a massive fan of the iconic legends of the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. So I can’t help but love these amazing photo’s of some of the legends of this lifetime, taken by the ridiculously talented photographers who knew them. I think they’re beautiful. [...]

Love is a funny thing, isn’t it.
It starts off all hearts and flowers – the butterflies in your stomach, the long phonecalls, the days spent in bed forgetting about household chores and deadlines.
You promise that it will be like that forever. Swear there will never be a fight, that you’ll never raise your voices or [...]

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway.”
— Elbert Hubbard 

In life, I think it is extraordinarily rare to find a true friend.
We all have loads of friends, don’t we? We have shopping friends, drinking friends, work friends, faraway friends, old friends, new friends, friends of friends. We have those friends you [...]

I’m not easily moved to tears.
I don’t often cry at movies. I can easily detach my feelings when I’m watching the news.
But sometimes, I hear a strangers story so moving that I find myself with tears rolling down my face, as if it was happening to someone I love.
This morning was one of those times.
I [...]

You may think you are having a really, really bad day.
You might be really, really scared of Spiders.
You may think there’s absolutely no way you can ever get that job; pass that exam; get over that break up.
You may think the pain you’re feeling will never stop.
That’s your mind talking that is. Say hello to [...]