It's after 12th night, so Christmas is over, and I can start thinking about my 2024 intentions* *aka, I've been too tired to blog yet this year! Anyway, looking back on my 2023 intentions, I was more successful at some than others. In 2023, I wanted to write 52 blogs, and I wrote 61! I'm [...]
Tag: Family
Pre-Christmas at Combermere
Combermere Abbey is a special place for us. We've been four times now and we gave our best friends a voucher for their 30th birthdays. We've stayed at Stone Lodge, the old gatekeepers cottage at the bottom of the drive, three times now, and each time has been significant. It's the cottage in the picture [...]
Weekly Check-in 156
Happy Sunday night from a frazzled but happy Poppy! It's been a long but brilliant week, so let's check-in. Highlights included: a few days at Mum and Dad's, catching up with family and a couple of friends. I also had a brilliant day today and a fab Start Course session at the beginning of the [...]
Weekly Check-in 149
So, Nathan took some nice photos of Soph and I feeding the ducks this week, and they are on the phone he has misplaced. I was hoping to use one picture as my blog banner but... it's Wednesday and the phone is still missing! So, here's last week's blog and here is a photo of [...]