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#LittleLoves – August 2025

by RachelSwirl August 29, 2025
#LittleLoves - August 2025

Welcome to the August edition of #Little Loves is a blog series that shares the positive points from the month gone by. Feel free to join in. August has been utterly jam-packed with positives in this household, so get ready for a bit of a lengthy read. That said, I’m currently struggling with some health complications, so I’d take the first three weeks of the month to this last one, that’s for sure! Still, sticking to the positives, here are a few of the positive points from the month gone by. Read I somehow managed to get through four books …

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#LittleLoves – July 2025

by RachelSwirl July 25, 2025
#LittleLoves - July 2025

Welcome to July’s edition of #LittleLoves, a monthly series you are very welcome to join by leaving comments or by writing and sharing a post with the same subheadings. Without any further waffle, here are some of my #LittleLoves from the past month. Read It feels like ages since I last had time to read a good book! This month, I managed to get through not just one but two Elsie Silver books: ‘A Photo Finish’ and ‘Off To The Races’, both of which I’d thoroughly recommend to any avid romance readers. It was a joy to soak up some …

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#LittleLoves – August 2024

by RachelSwirl August 30, 2024
#LittleLoves - August 2024

Welcome to this month’s #LittleLoves post, which is part of a series celebrating the positive points from each month.  You are very welcome to partake should you fancy commenting or sharing your own blog posts/ social media posts below. Though we haven’t been abroad this year, August sure has been eventful. Whilst I’ve been occupied with work, the kids have entertained themselves with endless trips, activities, or playdates out and about with family and friends. I don’t think that there’s been a day gone by when E hasn’t either been playing at a friend’s house or had a friend come over …

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Oh My Gosh I’ve Been Featured On Another Blog! 

by RachelSwirl March 31, 2016
Oh My Gosh I've Been Featured On Another Blog! 

Oh my gosh I have been featured on another blog! To say I am honoured is an understatement. I am officially over the moon, I have had my writing published upon an amazing blog, You can read the post and other posts within the series at whattheredheadsaid. I wrote a piece upon how Paul and I met for Donna’s ‘The Beginning of Us’ series which I’ve greatly enjoyed reading myself, and if you haven’t seen is definitely worth a read. I cannot believe that all of a sudden I am part of it! ? You can read all about how Paul and I met here. …

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We Have Been Together For Eleven Years!

by RachelSwirl February 13, 2016
We Have Been Together For Eleven Years!

Eleven years ago today I was in the middle of a wardrobe crisis deciding upon a first date outfit for an evening out to the cinema with the workplace hotty. Back then Paul had the look of the late Heath Ledger (when he starred in 10 Things), he had long dark curly hair, a goatee almost chinstrap and stubble I desperately wanted to run my hand over. To be honest I was fairly sure the date would amount to either nothing whatsoever or at best, a one night stand as quite frankly, I saw Paul to be way out of …

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