Love
Thoughts on love, ell oh vee ee, love and everything in between. You can read more on my wedding, my favourite places in the world, my most loved building, and why I love writing on this blog (most of the time).
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My Person of the Year 2018
This year has had a lot of…ups and downs…shall we say? For some it’s been alright, and for many it’s been a shitter. But through the darkness, there are people who’ve been sharing light in the hope that it’ll reach those at their time of need. One of those people is Jeffrey Marsh, someone who I’ve decided is my Person of the Year 2018. I first discovered Jeffrey back when Vine was still alive and took over all my spare time. Between all the memes and salty posts about ‘those’ popular Viners, Jeffrey shone out like a literal ray of sunshine. In 2015/2016, my feminism became way more intersectional. I…
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My Greatest Adventure
I feel incredibly lucky to be able to say I’ve had a lot of adventures in my 28 years on this weird little planet. I’ve travelled to far away places, studied book after book after book, was born into a family that gives love to the ends of the earth, met some of the best people out there, met some of the worst out there too, experienced student life, watched my little brother share his musical talent like I might burst with pride, packed up and moved to a new city with only my gut feeling to go on, cried in the back of several taxis, loved, lost, lived in…
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For the love of blogging
As I write this I’m sat on my sofa in my unicorn pjs, watching Friends reruns and nursing a large mug of Yorkshire Tea. It took me a while to figure out what to say for this month’s travel link-up with the lovely ladies of travel blogging, but only because I’ve spent the last couple of months wondering where my blog is really going. I think half of my muddle is the fact we haven’t really travelled since our honeymoon in Sri Lanka almost a year ago. We spent all of our time since then making plans to leave London, getting the train to Leeds almost every weekend to scope…
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I left my heart at the Natural History Museum – travel linkup
This month’s travel linkup is all about the place (or places) that you can’t get out of your head. We had an amazing honeymoon in Sri Lanka, an unforgettable Trek America road trip and so many city breaks I’ve lost count. But there’s one place in the world I wish I could be every day – the Natural History Museum in London. I used to be a member when we lived in London, and it was a really sad day when I decided not to renew because we were leaving the city. Maybe once we’re a bit more settled in Leeds I’ll be able to afford to support the museum…
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Pink hair wedding in London (with dinosaurs too!)
It’s been over a year since we got married and not a day goes by when I don’t think how lucky we were to have such a brilliant party with the most amazing people in our lives. When we were planning it, people asked us: ‘Are you going back home to get married?’, ‘Will you dye your hair back blonde?’, ‘What’s your theme?’ Well, it turned out we had a pink hair wedding in London with plenty of dinosaurs as extra guests! Here are a few of our favourite photos from the day, taken by the truly amazing Lisa Jane Photography.
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Cats of the world: fur friends I’ve met on the road
If you know me or my husband in real life, you know that we absolutely adore cats. We have two little (well, pretty fat but still little to us) fur babies and we can’t imagine life without them. So when we travel, it breaks our hearts to leave them behind. Almost everywhere we go, we meet other kitties along the way that remind us of our girls at home. Here are a few of our new fur friends from across the globe. Cats of the world, we heart you! Sleepy cats of Kos It was boiling hot for the 2 days we were on Kos for our friends’ wedding, so…
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A proposal at the Grand Canyon
If you follow me on Twitter or are lucky enough (or not so?) to know me in real life, you might have heard some bloody amazing news from our recent holiday to the USA. We booked our Trek America from LA to San Francisco over a year ago but little did I know, Simon was planning a surprise… Three days into the trek, we arrived at the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. Besides the bright lights of Vegas the canyon was one of the reasons we booked the trip, and it was about to become a highlight of our year. When we arrived at the canyon, our trek leader…
