My husband hates stuff. So I know better than to buy him anything tangible for his birthday which was last week, instead the key to his heart is either a} a nice break away or b} food. So I combined both and booked to take him to The Pig Hotel, one of our favourites in the UK. They're known for being a restaurant with rooms and we love the kitchen garden to plate philosophy. We've stayed at this Pig, on the beach, before for our first wedding anniversary {blog post on that here} so I thought I'd surprise him by taking him back and treating him to a massage and dinner. After a tough couple of weeks with Ben having to visit hospital a number of times and have some operations to remove minor skin cancer/sun damage it was the perfect tonic and suddenly everything seemed ok again.

Happy Friday! I'm excited to share some photos of a shoot that Binky Nixon came to do a few weeks back if you'd like to see? I guess you all know just how much of a thing for photos I have. This blog is built upon it. I'm not skilled technically at taking photos myself but I just love how much a photograph can capture. So much more than my mind can ever remember, looking back at them always makes me smile and to have a set of professional images that captures everything that I love is really special.

I feel a bit silly writing this post with photos from way back {June!!}. I feel so behind with the blog at the moment but I'm always like this in summer, wanting to be outside more and not having enough time to log onto my laptop as much as I should. Where have the last couple of months gone to?! It feels like it's flown by but equally it feels like we've been living in summer forever and a day. I realised that I have some photos I haven't yet published and I know I'll want to look back at. I've got out of the habit of writing my weekly catch ups and I'm missing having a steady stream of my photo diary on here. This post is really just for me to look back on them before they disappear onto the cloud/some huge photo album on my laptop that I'll never get around to looking through. So apologies for the self indulgence, back to house renovating/garden blog posts again next! 

Last week we took another little staycation. This time to The Cotswolds. The Cotswolds are one of our very favourite areas of the UK. Chocolate box villages, rolling fields and the farm shop of all farm shops - Daylesford. I mean, I love the seaside but The Cotswolds is always the perfect short break from us as it's only just over an hour away so you don't feel like you're wasting half the day in the car to get there. We stayed in Little Cotswold Cottage - an insanely beautiful boutique cottage in Great Rolling {just ten minutes from both Soho Farmhouse and Daylesford}. The location was amazing and so was the weather - being England we experienced both a pouring with rain day {perfect for cosying up} and then a bright sunshine day. I'd love to share more photos below if you'd like to see.