Can I manage 1000 hours outside in 2021?
It was a chance comment by blogging friend Louise from Little Hearts Big Love that got me wondering if I could do 1000 hours outside for 2021. I’m not the sort of person who makes new year’s resolutions or sets goals or aims for a year. I spend enough time feeling under pressure just from day to day life of raising three teenagers, working and running a home. I know that if I set myself additional goals, it will be just...
Lockdown: Life in the village
We live in a ‘semi-rural location’ in Gloucestershire – a village reasonably close to a town. The village has a high proportion of residents in their 60s, 70s and above, and not many kids. During lockdown, we’ve spent a lot of time walking round the village. With no friends locally, the kids are usually with us. We see the same things and same people every day. It’s a bit like This Country combined with Groundhog Day. We have...
