Self-care and what it might look like
The long school summer holiday is drawing to a close and as usual I feel like we’ve wasted a lot of it. When I was a teacher I lived for the 6 week holiday. With a husband also working in education, and school-age children, it has always been a time for us to spend quality […]
Grief and Bereavement
This is a topic I’ve wanted to write about for some time but it’s also one that hurts me most to ponder so I’ve been putting it off. A recent family holiday visiting the magnificent beaches of the Northumberland coastline got me thinking about something I’d started writing following my mum’s death in 2020 and […]
Digging up the past
The Festival of British Archaeology began on 15th July and goes on until the 30th. Archaeology has always fascinated me and when I was little I actually wanted to be an archaeologist; I even did a school project on it. I love that a little big of digging in the right places can unearth information […]