Hello! How are you? As you've probably seen, we're home from Aus and normal blogging has been resumed for a while! I can't remember the last time I wrote one of these weekend/catch up posts with Christmas & then our travels. I feel like I share so much on Instagram stories these days that I don't need to then repeat a load of it on the blog but actually it's nice sometimes to have it in a more permanent form to refer back to.

So, what have I been up to since getting back? A mix really, the first morning after getting home I had a breakfast meeting in London with a big brand {not sure if I can say more just yet} for a collaboration later on in the year. It was definitely a shock to the system after three weeks spent gallivanting around sunny Australia in sandals & sun-hats to come back to a very rainy grey day in London! But it did me good to get back into things straight away. With the jet-lag I was going to bed early and then waking up early which I loved for a few days. I took things fairly slowly for the rest of the week and enjoyed catching up with family & friends. Although Ben was straight into our loft renovation, he's such a trooper. {see this blog post for talk of all the plans}. At the weekend we decided it was time to get back into the allotment & growing for this year - full post on that coming early next week I promise with an exciting interview with the queen of all things growing.

And now it's FREEZING cold! In fact, the coldest week we've had in the UK for over 5 years with minus temperatures and so much snow! Where did that hint of Spring go to?!

// Some highlights from the last couple of weeks if you'd like to see;























// And some lows from the past couple of weeks;

Saying goodbye to Ben's Grandma yesterday. She passed away whilst we were in Australia at the grand old age of 94! Funerals are always sad but this one was uplifting at the same time as she'd had such a good innings, and the snow storm as we came out of the church was definitely magical and memorable.

Finding out that we've had mice gallivanting around our kitchen at night! It's been a nightmare trying to evict them this week as they'd got into two of our kitchen cupboards. Definitely an education and a real adult life lesson. I had to laugh on Sunday as we were dealing with them otherwise I would have cried. Fingers crossed they won't come back! Leaving a sonic thing plugged into the wall to deter anymore.

The cold - snow days and staying cosy can be fun but when you have bad circulation like I do it does make me feel miserable sometimes. I've been fighting a cold/viral thing this week too so have been trying hard to just keep warm & can't stop coughing at night.


As always, I love your feedback both Instagram & blog wise and welcome any requests for posts. Do you have anything nice planned for this weekend? I think we'll wait to see just how much snow we get as to whether we can even leave the village! It's my friend's Birthday tonight so I'm looking forward to celebrations with the girls and then we'll see what this weekend brings. I'm off to Cornwall for a couple of exciting days with Joules next week! More on that soon.

R <3 xx