Travel
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London

A couple of weekends ago we all headed down to London for a few days down London. Ostensibly it was to catch the Mundo Pixar exhibition, but we thought we’d extend it out a couple of days to make it more of a mini-break. Thursday So it was we came to find ourselves in a…
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Vera went to Mull

Back from a glorious week on the beautiful island of Mull, part of the Inner Hebrides, a three hour drive punctuated with a 45 min ferry crossing. It’s our second holiday here with family, the first was in 2022 with a very young boy, a big tent, a night in an Air-BnB, and a night…
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Six Thousand

07/05/26: This post is a lie. I have no idea why it said I had 6000 posts when I have just over 3000 (I have deleted some recently but not that many!) Still, numbers aside, it’s still mostly valid. This is my 6,000th post. Almost 1.5 million words and counting. It’s a bit bonkers really.…
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Plans and goals and things

My life is on hold.My plans have wavered.My dreams are simpler.My hopes are vivid.My goals have shifted. As parents, Becca and I are well aware that it’s easy to lose yourself in the day to day of caring for our son. The weeks collapse on each other, and before you know it June has arrived.…
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It’s that time of year again

When bloggers start to compile lists, pulling their worldly-wise thoughts together into recaps, looking ahead at the looming calendar change and all that it brings with it (or not if that’s what floats your boat). I don’t get much time to write these days as the bulk of the content I create is for my…
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Stalled

Entry 582 of an ongoing series of posts about how minor injuries and life events continue to get in the way of carefully made plans. Safe to say it’s been an eventful year so far, in no specific order… At the end of January we had booked in to a hotel for a night to…