travelling, hiking, eating
We don't need to talk about how the world is crumbling do we? 🌎 Let's just say it's a given that it's unsustainable with the way modern society is guzzling non-reusable materials. Which brings us to the point in hand.... Christmas. The time of year where stockings are expected to be filled with plasticky-little gimmicks and [...]
Drum roll please. It's finally Autumn! Just last weekend we hustled our way down to the Mount Laurel Fall Fest and although it was a smidge too hot and humid to *really* feel Autumnal, I still got those jitters in the cosy part of my brain telling me it's time to start nesting. And buy [...]
I'm celebrating because this is the first year I've actually liked pumpkin spice. That's right: all of those years playing the die-hard Autumn fan, I've been a fraud. Until now! Last month I ordered a pumpkin spice latte and, to my absolute shock, actually liked it (despite it being waaay too sweet). And I've now made it my [...]
We recently invested in an (albeit, cheap) slow cooker. We'd wanted one for yeeeeears but feared it'd become yet another kitchen appliance destined for the dusty realm of the back of the cupboard. And thus we kept putting it off. Our recent move to the States landed us in the Land of the Slow Cooker [...]
There's nothing quite like a holiday to the coast and inhaling that fresh sea air to combat the trepidations of the 'will they won't they' Green Card application limbo. Oh, just me that this situation is specific to? Maybe so, but there's never a bad time to go to the coast, am I right? Well. Except for [...]
I tried hard to keep this short, but the truth is there's just too many important stories to tell, and too much truth to expose. Mid-January, as I mindlessly scrolled through Instagram's myriad of exotic destinations, palatable flatlays and sponsored fashion posts, a Story flashed up at the top of my screen from a traveller [...]
Dear Toby, It's been a physically and emotionally draining morning, hasn't it? We had such a good run around the park where you had fun being chased by that little Bedlington Cross, before we collapsed into a heap and cried our eyes out into your fur. I told you that you were the best boy [...]
