The Garlic Farm, Wild Flower Meadow

I’d kept hearing about how pretty the meadow was from friends who have visited the farm in the past few weeks, so this week I finally arranged for my mum (the woman who gave me my love for plants in the first place) and I, to head on over to The Garlic farm in Newchurch.…

Let The Tour Be-Gin!

last week, Kev and I spent some well-needed quality time together on a rather different style of date day... The venue? Laverstoke Mill, home of the Bombay Sapphire Distillery, where every single drop of the World famous (and rather delicious) Gin is produced. Now, Kev and I aren’t very big drinkers by any means (unless…

Little Miss Sunshine

As I stood there in the queue of my local Waitrose store today, I noticed her.. the rain was beating down on the large store windows but she just stood there, glowing in her luminous yellow jacket, waddling in her slightly oversized wellies whilst the most enormous smile adorned her face. She cared not for…

Combating Self Doubt & Imposter Syndrome

If I’m being perfectly honest, I’ve always been one of these people who has struggled with self assurance, I don’t know why but I’ve been like it since as long as I can remember really and especially when on the cusp of change or trying something new but as I seem to get older (..maybe…

Tropic Skincare: Naturally Awesome

Around this time five years ago, I discovered Tropic Skincare and at the expense of sounding a little cheesy, it genuinely has changed my life. For years I struggled with combination skin that wouldn’t seem to settle with anything I used. Everything was either too heavy or didn’t do what I wanted it to, either…

A Day Back In Time

Wednesday was an unexpected delight, one of those completely relaxed and unplanned days that kind of remind you what life is really about. I popped over to my mums, it was her first day of semi-retirement (technically she’s on holiday though and starts a new part-time job in two weeks time, but she is, for…

Cupcakes and Anxiety Tea Party

Back in the summer of last year, I met a lovely woman called Kerry, on instagram. I was initially trying to find other local bloggers in my area when I came across her profile called Cupcakes and Anxiety. Being a lover of all things baking and suffering with anxiety myself, I became instantly intrigued, So…

For every woman, today and everyday.

I know incredible women. I know courageous women, strong women, women with an outstanding amount of kindness to give. I know women with morals, who stick by a particular code. (these women are some of my favourites) There are women who fight for their place in this world and some who fight a battle that…

Yesterday was a good day.

Yesterday was a good day. And I don’t mean that other days aren’t at all but it just was, it was a really good day. For whatever reason, I woke straight up with a with a big smile on my face, instead of fumbling for my phone to hit the snooze button another eighteen times…

Dusty Threads fashion sale

I recently won a competition on Instagram (gotta love that little grid) to attend a local fashion sale that took place, last week (Tues 5th Feb) in Newport, on the Isle of Wight. The competition prize was a free entry pass to the sale for myself and a friend and a free drink for the…