Love After Love is not the type of book that would typically make my reading list. Still, as it was…
The Will of John Spooner Pagett, Gentleman of Rothley
A few years back, I came across a will for my children’s ancestor, John Spooner Pagett. I unintentionally stumbled across…
Saturday’s Story (on a Sunday) – Snow Day
This morning we woke up to a beautiful winter wonderland. It was the first real snowfall this winter, the first…
Unpicking the Untruths
Yesterday, I wrote about the struggle to find a space of my own… learning to hold space for myself is…
A Space Of My Own
There is an important truth to remember when considering why relationships that obviously do not work last long. Children complicate…
Why Do I Write?
As a child, I wrote all the time. I would often be found with my Vtech laptop type device writing…
Saturday’s Story – Unrequited Love
This week’s story prompt was ‘Unrequited Love’. I’m not sure if that would be quite clear in the story but…
The Book Club – All the Beautiful Lies by Peter Swanson
All the Beautiful Lies is a thriller written by Peter Swanson. With a rating of 3.62 on Goodreads, I can’t…
A hobby or a life-long passion
I started researching my family history in March 2007. At the time, I was a single, stay-at-home Mum and I…
Saturday’s Story – Outside the Window
The prompt for this piece was ‘outside the window’, and I sat down at 9pm last night and just wrote…
The Book Club – January 2021
All of my life, I have loved to read. Reading has been the one thing that has been a proven…
#WeightLossWednesday – The Reasons
Welcome to this January’s #WeightLossWednesday, a monthly discussion about losing weight and staying healthy. As I explained last time, I…
