• Lifestyle,  walled garden

    I’m on YouTube

    I did hint in the last post that I was considering tinkering around on YouTube. Well my first two videos are live, and I’m in the midst of editing video no. three (currently taking a welcome break by blogging on here instead). The first video is an introduction to the channel, and mainly what made us make the move from Hebden Bridge to East Yorkshire. The second gives you the full tour of the garden including some exciting outbuildings, which…

  • Lifestyle

    A Brighter Day

    Hello friends, it’s been a hot minute hasn’t it? A notable amount of ‘life’ has happened since I last signed into my blog. Three seasons in fact; a hopeful spring, a nervewracking summer and the saddest autumn I’ve ever known. Sadly, not simply a season of the Gilmore Girls. Once again we are in winter, and, measured by how many Cadbury’s Mini Eggs I’ve already consumed, the end is near. We’ve got this, friends. Roll on the sunshine. Upped sticks…

  • Lifestyle

    Spring Forward

    Are we nearly there yet? After a pretty peculiar couple of years, spring 2022 feels somewhat familiar. I’m not sure where ‘there’ is anymore, but I’m enjoying seeing life happening. Friends are planning summer get-togethers, weddings are being RSVP’d to, and holidays are being booked (albeit to a humble campsite or two), without too much worry of covid-fallout. Personally, like many others, I’m still navigating covid/government/care home complexities, but I see some hope and I need to focus on that.…

  • Lifestyle

    A Yorkshire Winter

    Hello friends, I hope the mornings and nights of winter are treating you well. Plus every hour in-between. I hope there’s a teaspoon of sugar in your morning brew, a stack of wood by your fire and fragments of sparkly December memories seeing you through this new month. This post is essentially a highlight reel of 14 days spent offline. No laptop. No emails. No one asking me questions or sharing unwelcome opinions. I locked my brain away for 2…

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    Christmas Gift Guide for Gardeners

    Fragrance Society Hand Cream from M&S £4 | Growing Diary from John Lewis £8 | Beanie from & Other Stories £29 | Outdoor Pocket Stove from Wildbounds £27.95 | Cashmere Socks from Anthropologie £20 | Radio from Studio £39.99 | Watering Can from Habitat £10 | Seeds from Brown Paper Packages £2.49 | Mug from Sainsbury’s £4.25 | Gardening Gloves from Sarah Raven £8.95 | Secateurs from Niwaki £39

  • Lifestyle,  Outdoors,  Van Life

    5 Reasons to Stay at: Waterside House Campsite

    This was a spontaneous ‘I need to leave the house and any reminders of my work life’ trip and boy, did it deliver! Someone was watching over us as we rolled into the site on a windy Friday evening. I was smiling from ear to ear as Ste removed the keys from the ignition to a brilliant lakeside pitch at Waterside House campsite, based just off the M6 in Howtown near Pooley Bridge. We chose a non EHU as a…

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    This life: Remembering August

    Disclosure: Ad | Gifted items marked c/o in the post. Hello readers, how is September treating you? I will always hold a special place in my 41 year old heart for this month. It marks change and a shift in focus, and this year is no different. We are contemplating a different life. One with home grown food, animals, and space to breathe. Of course we have a peachy old time and home in Hebden Bridge, it’s a beautiful place,…

  • Lifestyle

    Thrills and Spills

    How are you doing? I hope this blog post finds you well, and I wish you a happy and healthy 2021. Sending virtual hugs from my screen to yours. I’m sat writing this post in our king size bed in our chilly attic bedroom. I can hear cats fighting for territory outside our window and my brain, like the rest of the UK population, is whirling after that crazy first week of January; the beginning of lockdown no. 3. Like…

  • Lifestyle,  Outdoors,  Wellbeing

    7 Tips to Get Outside More This December

    Ad – PR Product from Vivobarefoot Needing motivation to get outside this winter? Here’s 7 tips that have pushed me out of the front door into the frosty air lately; 1. Need to run an errand? Go the long way round to post Christmas cards or to pick up food 2. Take a bag and go foraging for Christmas decor in your garden or neighbourhood. Look for holly, ivy, yew, box and fir. Don’t forget to forage responsibly! 3. Help…

  • Lifestyle

    Indie Business Christmas Gift Guide 2020

    My Christmas gift guide featured on my Instagram Stories this year and then I forgot I promised to have one on the blog, so here we are; my Indie Christmas Gift guide for 2020. Rather than linking to specific products I’m directing you to the shop’s home page, so you can have a good browse and start filling your online shopping baskets. I hope you discover some great small businesses below, and please feel free to share ones you recommend…

  • Lifestyle

    Just Pinned: Christmas 2020

    Whilst I’m preparing my ‘Shop Small’ 2020 Christmas guide, I thought I’d write a quick blog post sharing some recent Pinterest finds, celebrating my favourite time of year (yup, even this year). I’m not going to sugarcoat it, this Christmas is going to be difficult for so many of us. But if I’ve learnt anything from 2020, it’s that time is fleeting so you must find things that make you happy even when life feels impossible. We owe that to…