the sandcastle Archives

#MySundaySnapshot – Beach Bound 21/52 (2024)

by RachelSwirl May 26, 2024

Welcome to this week’s #MySundaySnapshot post, which is part of a snap-sharing-blog-linky series that you are very welcome to join. Click here for further information and guidelines upon this linky should you wish to take part. We spent last weekend in Blackpool celebrating our fabulous fifteen-year-old’s birthday. After a sunny but successful drive down the M6 in our recently repaired Zafira we spent a couple of hours sliding and swimming at the Sandcastle waterpark. We then showered and dried ourselves off before heading down the prom for a slap-up family meal at Mr Basrais World Cuisine. Given that we were then faced with an ‘all you …

Things that I have #LikedandLoved in May 2023

by RachelSwirl May 31, 2023

So it’s the end of May already, I can’t quite believe another month has passed us by so quickly yet here we are. Time waits for no man nor woman for that matter. As always, I have put together a list of the top ten things that I have #LikedandLoved from the past thirty-odd days; it’s always nice to share the positive points from each month and I hope that one day we can look back on some of our happier memories with a smile. Fabulously Fourteen J turned fourteen this month and to celebrate he spent the day with family …

#LittleLoves – May 2023

by RachelSwirl May 26, 2023

Though I’ve partaken in the #LittleLoves linky for many years now, I’ve never before hosted it thus this month marks a first for me. Welcome to the first of what I hope will be many #LittleLoves monthly posts ahead. You are, of course, very welcome to join in with this blog linky. You can find further information and guidance on how to be part of this by clicking here. I look forward to reading, commenting, and sharing your #LittleLoves for the month gone by. Please feel free to comment and add your #LittleLoves posts to the linkup form at the …

Things that I have #LikedandLoved in February 2022

by RachelSwirl February 28, 2022

To say that February is a short month, we’ve sure as heck packed plenty into it. Here are some of the things that I have #LikedandLoved this month. Valentine’s Day Unlike most couples that celebrate Valentine’s Day on the fourteenth day of February, my husband and I choose to celebrate a day earlier (on 13th February) as this marks the day that we had our first date and became a couple. We, therefore, tend to swap cards on the 13th February rather than the 14th, though will often celebrate over two days rather than just the one which is rather …

#LittleLoves – February 2022

by RachelSwirl February 25, 2022

So there we have it, another month has flown by in the blink of an eye and here we are rounding up the positive points from the past couple of weeks. I’ll be honest, finding the positives in the World that we live in at present is challenging but absolutely necessary otherwise I think I’d be overwhelmed. So without further waffling here are a few of my #LittleLoves from February. Read It probably won’t surprise you to hear that, like many at present, my current reading seems to consist of endless updates from the BBC News app. Whilst I’m half …