I discovered a new-to-me word and I'm planning on using it in a conversation very soonWe went early with Christmas and the tree was up before the end of November (lights only)I cooked up a huge batch of Nigella's Cranberry SauceI'd like these socks to be in my Christmas stocking 🙂
Christmas is the season of giving, right? It can, however, also be the season where everything becomes a little too hectic and you lose sight of what’s important. The Brainy One and I give to charity all year-round and have done since we were first married. This year, so many more people are in need … Continue reading Four Ways to Give Back During a Second Covid Christmas
How did November turn out? Let's see what the numbers made of it: 23 Christmas presents wrapped 7 Christmas cards written and ready to post 9 pieces of Happy Mail sent 25,775 steps walked by me on my busiest day of the month* 15 online Step classes with Jenny Ford via YouTube 6 separate donations … Continue reading Month in Numbers | November 2021
I didn't read many books this month, but that's not to say I didn't do a lot of reading. 🙂 Much Ado About You by Samantha Young (Kindle): An American moves to the English countryside to run a bookstore? Yes please. The small town cast of characters and dishy male lead are beautifully drawn; it’s hard not … Continue reading For the Love of Books | Currently Reading November 2021
It was a week of some sunshine, a lot of grey skies and a big drop in temperature. Bond Street in London's West End I nipped into town for a spot of Christmas shopping - I was there for opening and home again within the hourI baked cookies to celebrate a friend's birthdayFriends came to … Continue reading Me on Monday
In a capital city of around 8.7 million people, finding such space and light combined is always an unexpected joy.
I have three more traditional 12x12 pages finishing up the New Zealand leg of our honeymoon album. All three designs have been used earlier in the album - I like how using the same few designs gives an album a sense of cohesion. Between her coming to the UK for our wedding and us arriving … Continue reading Scrapbooking in 2021 | Honeymoon Album | Final New Zealand Pages
November sunrise Here in the UK, there's still a lot of noise about Covid-19: booster vaccinations, testing, winter surge, the spectre of another Lockdown, the potential to cancel Christmas for a second year, masking-up and on and on. While no longer the headline news, it's there, affecting life as we used to know it and … Continue reading Thoughts On Adapting To Living with Covid
First ever photo of The Boy A reader got in touch recently to ask about The Boy and his absence from This West London Life. There hasn't been any deliberate plan to drop appearances by The Boy, it's happened organically. The Boy is almost 15 years old and autism colliding with puberty has not been … Continue reading Autism, Puberty and The Boy
It was a week where Christmas crept into a lot of my thinking and there was not much in the diary Pitzhanger Manor at dusk I was happy to be pottering around at homeWe kept up with the twice-weekly Covid testing, particularly as I had been to the Festival of RemembranceI swept up what felt … Continue reading Me on Monday
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