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Wednesday already; which is a real shame because I thought it was Thursday. Clearly it’s not and this means the weekend is further away than I hoped when I rocked up to work this morning. Damn it! However, it does mean I’m not as behind as I thought...

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. ~ John Muir Another weekend without commitments could mean only one thing: time to pull on our boots (new ones in my case) and head out into the countryside, just the two of us. Bliss. We delved...

It’s been a funny-old couple of weeks, with a few highs and too many lows for  my liking. I want this to be a happy place – a place that celebrates all that is good in my life – so I’m not going to give chapter and verse on the bad....

If I could have chosen a perfect weekend to kick off my New Year, this past weekend would have been it. Two days of walking, photography and fun under an unseasonably warm January sun; just the two of us. Having been unwell for most of the week, culminating...

Happy New Year! I go into 2012 knowing that there will be challenges; the road ahead is not destined to be smooth. But I’m going into it with my eyes open and determined to keep things in perspective. I have so many good things in my life: a loving...

It’s been a funny old few weeks. Life has not been exactly kind and there seems to have been a new “issue” cropping up with alarming regularity to throw a spanner in the works. Still I’ve cracked on with the business of preparing...

As another weekend approaches after a week that seems to have literally flown by, I thought I’d get my fingers flying across the keyboard for a quick update on last weekend and my proud Mummy moment! After three months of preparation and practice,...

Darren and I had set aside a long weekend in November to spend together some months ago, eventually deciding to spend a couple of days walking in the Peak District, fortuitous then that a few days before we were due to go my doctor recommended “more...

I’m sitting in bed suffering from some unknown lurgy that has plagued me for three days now. I’ve slept for the best part of the day, but am now awake and bored with daytime TV after, erm, five minutes and wondering what to do. It occurs to me that...

Just a quick post to say that I’ve added some new galleries to the site. You can now have a gander at the photos I took last weekend on a girlie break with my Mum in Nottingham (not great quality though as I only had my snap camera with me), a few taken...