It’s September on Tuesday and I have one thing to say. MEH! The whole of August has felt like a perpetual Monday morning for me, and I’m glad to see the back of it. Everything has been a chore: from deciding what to wear, what to watch, what to cook for dinner; getting up for [...]
Tag: reading
My Favourite Things: Volume One
I realised that I called my blog ‘My Favourite Things’, but I have also since realised that I rarely talk about my favourite things: my favourite things to read, watch, listen to or even cook, wear and do. Introducing, my new, regular feature where I actually discuss the things that I have been loving from [...]
How I am coping during Isolation – It’s okay not to be okay
*Disclaimer* I don't look like this currently - make up has been absent from my life throughout isolation, because who is going to see me?! Before Boris Johnson put the UK onto Coronavirus ‘lockdown’/isolation, I had an incredibly distorted image of what it would be like. I had imagined myself contentedly sipping tea and happily [...]
Happy New Year!
I am currently in the depths of limbo that exists between Christmas and New Year, where I have eaten too much and not had enough fresh air; trying to make preparations for my newly organised life from the comfort of my sofa. It’s New Years Eve today and I am a little confused as to [...]
My Summer Reading Challenge
Summer is here and it seems to me the perfect time to catch up on my reading. If you read my post from January about my goals for 2019 (you can read it here if you missed it), you will know that to read more was one of those goals. Summer is a terrific season [...]
The Reason I have decided to set myself goals for 2019
I am forever thankful for cosy jumpers. (Jumper - ASOS) Whenever people as me what my New Years Resolutions will be, I always find myself saying that I haven’t got any, firstly, because how likely am I to actually stick to them? And secondly, you never know what life will bring, so it can often [...]
“Trick or Treat, bags of sweets, ghosts are walking down the street”: When did Autumn get here?
The weather is beginning to cool down, which can only mean one thing - Autumn. Crisp morning air, cold feet and runny noses, the crunch of the newly fallen leaves beneath your feet and evenings wrapped up in a blanket. For me this is a magical time of year, where you don’t need to think [...]