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Things that I have #LikedandLoved in July (2020)

by RachelSwirl July 31, 2020

So here we are at the end of July already – it’s strange how quickly time flies by despite us having to battle the boredom of being stuck in lockdown limbo. So without further ado, here are a few of the things which I have #LikedandLoved throughout July. The End Of Term & The End of An Era School (or should I say homeschool?) came to a close for the academic year. J is no longer a junior, he has now finished primary school entirely, and come September will be moving on to senior school, whereas E has now finished …

Back In The Day Before Broadband

by RachelSwirl July 27, 2019

Being a child of the eighties I grew up without the luxuries of laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Computers back when I was little were hefty machines which required almost an entire desk to support their sheer size and weight, there was nothing ‘portable’ about a PC back then… I was around eight years old when we first got a computer – an Atari ST 520 which was hooked up to a small-ish Osaki television. The Atari was classed as a games console, though it was no use saving your game progress as although the Atari read floppy disks, it forgot …

#LittleLoves – July 2019

by RachelSwirl July 26, 2019

Summer sure is flying by, we are now over halfway through the year and whilst I’m loving the summer holidays, I sure wish time would slow down a little. To celebrate July, here are a few of my #LittleLoves from the month… Read In a bid to get back into reading, I spent some pennies on good old amazon, though my kindle has long been replaced by my iPhone as it’s just easier. In the past I was a bit of a Sophie Kinsella fan, I read her books cover to cover within hours of getting them and couldn’t get …

Let Summer Commence!

by RachelSwirl July 20, 2019

I was intending to write this post yesterday. However, despite my best intentions I decided to cut loose and to celebrate the start of the summer by sharing some bubbles with a bestie. At precisely 1.15pm just as school was officially ‘out for the summer’, rain began to heave from the heavens by the bucket load, the electricity began flickering on and off and it felt far more like winter than summer. Not one to let the weather get in the way, I finished off my jobs for the day, loaded the kids into the car and played summer songs …