Hello! Sorry for the lack of blogging recently, it's been a crazy couple of weeks. We've just got back from a long weekend in Barcelona {more on that next week} and also my mac is in for repair needing a new hard drive, sobs! Blogging just isn't the same without it and takes me twice as long. Anyway, I wanted to share that today a mini house tour of ours is featured over on Keepmoat Homes inspiration section today {online here}

And also I never got round to finishing our Utility room makeover. When I last posted about it, way back at the end of May when summer was just beginning, the bare bones were in but nothing was quite finished. You can see that post where I left off here. Since then, it's all pretty much complete! I think the only thing we need now is a blind for the window and door. So this is part two with all the finishing off and some recent photos.

Part two of our trip to Mauritius a couple of weeks back - you can see part one here. We second honeymooned {if that's not a thing, I'm making it into one...} at Constance Le Prince Maurice back in 2015 and have struggled to find a resort to beat it ever since. So whilst we were out in Mauritius with a work trip we tagged on a stay at LPM for the rest of our trip and it was even better than we remembered. The service, the incredible staff {most of which we remembered from the first time and have been here for 20 years plus}, the food - oh the food!!, the pure luxury, the pool, the floating restaurant with the shark swimming around and the pink sunset skies. It was a completely blissful few days where we did very little {and a ate a hell of a lot! The lunches we had just on the beach here in our swimwear were some of the best we've ever ever eaten.} We took bikes out a couple of times to cycle through the local villages and to experience a market, but other than that we took the time as a complete switch off, just reading, walking along the beach, sunbathing, eating the aforementioned most incredible food and having time to just talk properly without any distraction and make plans. It was pure paradise. The kind of holiday where by the end you were so well rested that you're actually ready to come home {which almost never happens!}. Photos for me to look back on below which you're welcome to have a peek at if you'd like... {and if you're looking for a full review I wrote about this resort for So You're Getting Married here a couple of years back}

If you follow me on Instagram, you'll have seen that we took a little break to Mauritius a couple of weeks back. It was partly for work {I was honeymoon reviewing at Shangri La's Le Touessrok for So You're Getting Married - you can read the full article here if you'd like to see} but also a much needed switch off. We split our time between two different resorts, one new and one old favourite of ours that we'd been to before which made the whole thing feel so much longer - almost like two holidays in one! It was the most relaxed we've felt in months and when we came home a couple of people independently told us how well we both looked! It had been a particularly busy summer along with a lot of visits to the hospital which thankfully is now all ok so it felt so good to take some proper time out. I've written all about our stay for SYGM but I wanted to post all of my favourite photos from the trip below because looking back on them it just all seems like such a dream already {and you all know how much I love to use this blog to look back on photos on those dark winter days}. Part One below with alll the tropical island vibes.