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#LittleLoves – July 2025

by RachelSwirl July 25, 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 …

#LittleLoves – June 2025

by RachelSwirl June 27, 2025

Welcome to June’s edition of #LittleLoves post. #LittleLoves is a monthly series celebrating the positive points in life. You are very welcome to tag along and to add comments or even post your own #LittleLoves posts and then link up using the information below. June has been especially hard work in this household as we’ve not stopped for a second; J had four weeks of endless examinations, E has been busy prepping and practising for her upcoming flute assessments and orchestra performance, whilst Paul and I have been running ourselves ragged working day-in and day-out trying to make ends meet. …

#LittleLoves – July 2024

by RachelSwirl July 26, 2024

Welcome to this month’s #LittleLoves post, which is part of a series that you are very welcome to join should you fancy sharing some of the positive points from your month. July has been quite the transformative month in this household as E completed her time at Primary School, J saw the end of year ten and I started my new role working from home. It’s been ‘all change’ and we are currently trying to navigate all those alterations as the summer holidays have landed which as you can imagine is interesting… Without any further waffle here are a few of …

#LittleLoves – June 2024

by RachelSwirl June 28, 2024

Welcome to this month’s #LittleLoves post, which is part of a series that you are very welcome to join. June seems to have flown by in the blink of an eye and here we are whizzing into July at light speed. It’s been a hectic month filled with an array of appointments and activities – keeping on top of my diary has been much like juggling sand so without further ado here are a few of my #LittleLoves from the past month. Read In order to keep myself from mischief and to keep my mind occupied I’ve spent the past month …

What’s Next? Fantasies and Festivals

by RachelSwirl December 12, 2023

What’s next? It’s a question that I ask myself continuously throughout life, especially over the past five years or so. You’d think that by the fabulous age of forty, I’d have life figured out. Sadly, this isn’t so and despite having a wonderful husband and two amazing children, I still find myself wondering what exactly my purpose on this planet may be. At present life is a bit like a rather large jigsaw purchased from the local charity shop with an unusual amount of pieces missing from the box. I haven’t got a clue what I want to do when …