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#LittleLoves – January 2024

by RachelSwirl January 26, 2024

Happy New Year and welcome to this month’s #LittleLoves post, which is part of a series that you are very welcome to join. Whilst January has been a bit of a wet, windy, and wild month in terms of the weather, we’ve tried our best to stay dry, warm, and cosey shielded away from the worst of it. Here are a few of my #LittleLoves from the past month whilst I’ve been ‘hermiting’ indoors… Read The Sunday Times will forever be associated with memories of my late Father, it was the one newspaper that he insisted on having every week …

#MySundaySnapshot – Snow Way 50/53 (2023)

by RachelSwirl December 10, 2023

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. After two days of consistent heavy snow, we found ourselves stranded in what was a winter wonderland. The kids were given an extended weekend of fun and games with their sleds, snowmen, and snowball fights as schools closed throughout the county. Many houses lost power during the ‘blizzard’ and were quite literally snowed in for days on end. Plows, tractors, JCBs, and gritters were sent around the area to …

#LittleLoves – January 2023

by RachelSwirl January 27, 2023

Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November. All the rest have thirty-one bar February with twenty-eight or twenty-nine days dependent on the leap year and January which seems to have three thousand… January sure has dragged, I’m aware that people often refer to this particular month as ‘the blue month’ and I can absolutely see why! Though the glass seems more than half empty at this point, I’ve managed to scrape together some positive points from the past however many days (it feels like January has gone on forever) so without any further waffle, here are some of my #LittleLoves …

#MySundaySnapshot – Slip, Skid & Slide 04/53 (2023)

by RachelSwirl January 22, 2023

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 have once again struggled with sleet, snow, and ridiculous amounts of ice in our local area. Though I usually love winter weather, it’s certainly not the same when you’re having to drive a forty-minute journey along treacherous rural roads twice a day. As pretty as the ‘white stuff’ may be, it’s quite literally lethal as my son and I found out earlier this week when we were very …

#LittleLoves – December 2022

by RachelSwirl December 30, 2022

So here it is, the final Friday of December 2022. Another year has passed us by and whilst I’d love to tell you that it’s been a good one, I’m still trying to process and make sense of much of it. Whilst I’m a fan of even numbers (I’m sure I have some form of OCD) I can’t say likewise for the years which have been ‘even’ in number. Let’s take 2020 for example; it was meant to be the year of clarity, clear vision, and Worldwide success yet we all know how that ended… 2022 was similar in some …