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Good Grief – Honouring Marie ‘Forever’
Today is the birthday of someone very special – Marie. Marie was like a mum to me; she was one of my other mothers (herself and Claire) and looked out for me when my own mum was unwell for many years and that’s something I will never forget, but in 2014, she tragically, unexpectedly passed…
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6 books to mark the first 6 months of the year
I wanted to do a little post to sum up all of the books i’ve read in 2026 so far, but i’m really quite silly; I wrote this post so far in advanced of the ‘6 months’ point that now we’ve surpassed the 6 months and have gone into August! So yes, maybe there should…
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Blogger Day: A re-introduction
Yesterday was Blogger day! I felt it was important to post some content for today as i’ve now nearly been doing this half of my life (I ran a successful lifestyle blog posting 3 times a week for many years before I ran this blog; now I choose to focus on creating re-sharable instagram infographic…
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Victorious Festival: Accessibility, atmosphere and more!
I attended Victorious last year and before I dig deep into the festival, I want to address something; I want to start this post off with an open statement regarding Victorious’ issues surrounding the Palestinian genocide/war/crisis/famine/(all of the above). I attended Victorious on Sunday 24th August 2025 but I was at the time unaware of…
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You Are Art by Kai Kathleen – Review
My wife and I went to Kai Kathleen’s You Are Are exhibition at the New House Art Space in Guildford recently and it was absolutely phenomenal. Unfortunately, we went on the last weekend it was open, so it is closed now, however, I still wanted to write this review to praise Kai’s incredible work. The…
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Dorset and Hampshire Galavanting (and the accessibility of it)
For mine and Em’s four year anniversary (not our wedding anniversary, just the date of when we became girlfriends for the first time), we decided to spend the day in and around Dorset. The main part of the day was spent in Bournemouth, whilst the day ended in Lymington, and we had a fab time!…
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The best of early spring: Allllll the rest of the best!
Hello friends, aquiantances and all the rest! I’ve done a few ‘best of early spring’ posts so far, particularly on two local areas to me and all the great things I’ve found around us, but today, it’s alllllllllll about the rest, the general media, anything else on my mind. Once the post is done, I’d…
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The best of early Spring: Local Edition – Pompey
If you’ve been keeping up to my blog as of late you’ll have seen i’m doing a little series on the best of early spring, but if not… hi! Nice to meet you! Good to have you here! Regardless of your status on my corner of the web, all you need to know is I’m…
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The best of early spring: Local Edition – Soton
Spring has sprung and we’re all about finding fun activities, new hangouts, crafty workshops and somewhere with a good new caffeine hit. We live in Fareham (Pompey way) but having our in-laws and most of our friends in Southampton and Hedge End, we spend a lot of time Soton way too! This means we’ve discovered…
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The best of early spring: A hearty welcome!
Happy April! The start of April has actually been a mad one! Quite a lot has been going on in our lives, and March was busy too! I’ve been quite fatigued to be honest, but that won’t stop me from writing this post! I cannot wait to explore what I have loved the most this…
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