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#LittleLoves – November 2025

by RachelSwirl November 30, 2025

Welcome to this month’s #LittleLoves post, celebrating the positive points from the month gone by. This will be the second-to-last #LittleLoves post, as this blog will come to a close at the end of the year. With the kids being that much older, I have decided to start afresh and to start a new blog under a new name, focusing on topics away from parenting. Whilst I won’t be announcing the name or any links here, if you would like to continue following me or wish to join in future blog linkies on my new blog, then feel free to drop …

#LittleLoves – May 2025

by RachelSwirl May 30, 2025

Welcome to May’s edition of #LittleLoves, a blog-linky series celebrating the positive points of each month. You are very welcome to participate either by leaving comments on this post or by sharing your own #LittleLoves. Although I had planned on writing this post earlier than now, I have unfortunately been quite poorly through the night and have spent the majority of the day resting and recovering from whatever bug it was that my husband very kindly shared around the household. Without any further ado, here are a few my #LittleLoves from the past month. Read Though I love my new …

#LittleLoves – April 2025

by RachelSwirl April 25, 2025

Welcome to my latest #LittleLoves post, part of a blog-linky sharing the positive points from the month. Feel free to participate, either by adding a comment or by linking your blog posts below. April flew by, time seems to be shifting swiftly of late. So without further ado, here are some of my #LittleLoves from the month gone by. Read Now that I’m working full time I don’t have quite the same amount of time to dedicate to reading and such-like as I once did. Still, I enjoyed reading Elsie Silver’s ‘Wild Eyes’ earlier this month and have since made …

#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 …

#LittleLoves – April 2024

by RachelSwirl April 26, 2024

Welcome to the April edition of #LittleLoves – a linky that celebrates the little glimmers in life. You are very welcome to join in and share your #LittleLoves and leave a link in the comments below. I’ll be really honest – it doesn’t feel at all like April. Whilst we’ve seen very rare glimmers of the big yellow ball in the sky, the temperatures are still below zero some mornings. What’s happened to the British spring? We’d usually have had a heat by this point in the year yet here I am wrapped up in three layers wishing for some …