At the beginning of a relationship every night’s a date night, and we don’t need anyone to tell us how to do it. Focusing completely on each other comes naturally. But once familiarity, work pressure and home responsibilities start drowning the romance in life, finding time regularly to really connect with your spouse isn’t always […]
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Finding the little joys is easier some weeks than others, and this week’s alternating sunshine and rain has provided in abundance! Getting outdoors is so good for the soul. We did a treasure trail in the Chiltern hills, from treasuretrails.co.uk. We love these! It took us to the Hellfire Caves in West Wycombe… …this unusual
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Early this year I found myself plunged into a personal crisis I could never have imagined, which derailed all my plans and put me deep in an emotional hole. At first I struggled and fought hard against what was happening, but there was nothing I could do to change the situation and I found myself
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Because it’s not the big goals and successes in life that bring true happiness, but the little joys that you choose to notice each day. Autumn’s first blush is in the fruit; first cherries and plums and rosehips and reddening apples; now the crimson berries of holly and hawthorn and pyracantha and this: cotoneaster. Morning.
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September always feels like a strange transitional time – not quite still summer and not quite autumn. We think of it as a time of change, but when we look closer we see that things have already been changing under our noses for a while now. Of course things are always changing! The September garden
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Because it’s not the big goals and successes in life that bring true happiness, but the little joys that you choose to notice each day. It’s been a week of slow work, self care, and nesting. I love this time of year but I can tend to feel a bit fragile and aimless too. I’ve
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