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We worked with Visit Florida in April 2019. We created content for them showcasing a family road trip around the state across 17 days, with stops in Miami, Key Largo, Fort Lauderdale, Anna Maria Island, Crystal River, Panama City Beach and Pensacola Beach. We created a variety of different content for them across both my social media channels and theirs as well.

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ad Jon and I recently had the loveliest day in London together in the sunshine. ☀️ It was so nice to spend some time together and we did it courtesy of @virginred by spending Virgin Points. If you haven’t heard of Virgin Red before, they are the rewards club from Virgin, where you can earn points on your everyday spending to use on rewards you love, whether that’s music, experiences, food & drink, or travel. There are literally hundreds of rewards to choose from.
We decided to spend the day in the city, and spend our Virgin Points on a trip up @theshardlondon which we had never done before – it was a beautiful day for it and the view from the top was just stunning. There is a bar up there, comfy chairs, and photo opportunities, plus of course the most stunning view of the London Skyline.

If that wasn’t enough, as part of our reward we also had a delicious meal at @londonsteakhouseco (although I had fish not steak haha!). We had such a nice day just the two of us.
You don’t have to be a Virgin customer to join Virgin Red, it is free for everyone to join, and you can start earning Virgin Points by doing your online shopping via the website or app. We’ve got a few more points left over so I will be sharing what reward we choose next in a few weeks time. Head over to my stories as there is the link on there to find out more. #VirginRed #VirginPoints

We have had such a lovely day today, probably one of my favourite days in absolutely ages. We started off this morning fruit picking at a local pick your own farm. We haven’t done it for a couple of years, the kids absolutely loved it, filling punnets of strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and tayberries (I hadn’t tried a tayberry till today- have you ever had one?).
Then we sat in the sunshine after grabbing a drink from the farm shop while eating some of our fruity loot. It was just such a nice morning, no one argued, no one was grumpy 🤣, it was one of those mornings where you get in the car and think how nice was that?

Then we took some fruit over to my mums and we were sat having a drink in the sunshine and she said why don’t you stay for a bbq. So we spent most of the afternoon there which was so nice, love an impromptu bbq.
Then we came home, I took the dog for a nice long walk and now we are sat watching a film together.
One of those weekend days that just ends up being really nice and one for the memories.
Hope you’ve all had a good weekend too, did anyone get up to anything nice? PS swipe to see our juicy strawberries. 🍓 I made an Eton mess out of some of them earlier for our BBQ and they were so good.

An old school photo post (will anyone see it? 🤣)… I spent a fair bit of time tidying and cleaning the downstairs of the house today (which is already a mess and I didn’t even attempt upstairs, that’s three children for you). Thought I’d take some photos to document its tidiness but it basically turned into a photo shoot of my dog, who followed me around the house and got in the way of almost every single photo (swipe to see 🤣). I don’t know what he was expecting from me but he looks so hopeful. It made me laugh looking at them as he’s in pretty much every one.

Its just been our 5 year anniversary of living in this house in June and we still love living here so much. We’ve still got some big projects we want to do, mainly our en suite and downstairs toilet but not in any huge rush, we’ll get them done eventually. I’ve also got lots of smaller projects I want to do too but I’m feeling a bit unmotivated with them at the moment.

I used to take loads of photos of our house, but somewhere along the line I stopped, mainly cause I’m not an interiors instagrammer so don’t change rooms around or add new things a lot, so I felt it all got a bit repetitive seeing the same rooms over and over again. That’s why I got the dog involved today, he’s the missing piece to my instagram success 😉 (or it’s just that he gets in the way constantly and follows you around like a shadow 🤣). Hope you are having a good weekend, we’ve been at the school fair today and got totally rinsed. 🤣

#interiorstyling #ourhome #interiorinspiration #homerenovation #homeprogress #ourhouse #interiorinspo #realhomes #instahome

Sweet Treats you need to try in London…Part 4… The Doughnut Edition 🤣🍩

(There is a highlight on my grid if you’d like to see the other London sweet treat reels I have made)

Bread Ahead - @breadaheadbakery have become a bit of a cult London classic with their delicious filled doughnuts. With various locations including Borough Market, Wembley and Hampstead. We had the salted caramel and honeycomb and Eton mess and they were insane.

Doughnut Time - Chances are you might have heard of @doughnuttime_uk before, they have stores all over London and they do home delivery too. They look like works of art, taste amazing, have great names like Bruno Mars and David Hasslehoff and my kids are obsessed with them and always ask me to bring them home if I go into London.

Crosstown - @crosstown are famous for making the first ever sourdough doughnuts, and they create all their fillings in house. Plus they bake from scratch each day. They also have recently opened a store in Cambridge and have a couple across London too.

Longboys - @longboys_uk - Longboys make the original long donuts, made with simple but delicious fillings. Not overly sweet but also just sweet enough, we had a chocolate brownie one and it tasted divine. Plus the branding is pretty cool too.

Which would be your top choice out of these? 🥰

#londondesserts #foodreels #londonfood #londonfoodie #londontravel #desserts #dessertgram #londonguide #londonrestaurants #visitlondon #visitlondonofficial #londonsweettreats #thingstodoinlondon #doughnuttime #breadahead #longboys #crosstowndoughnuts

The easiest (but delicious) pizza dough recipe… 🍕

The other day I shared about making our own pizza dough on my stories and lots of people asked for the recipe so I filmed it last time we made them (Random little fact, Jon my husband is a trained pizza chef from back in the day!). We invested in a pizza oven in lockdown love a good pizza session. 🤣

Here is the simplest way we’ve found to do it…

You just need 4 ingredients….

Flour (ideally 00 or bread flour)
Water
Sea salt
Yeast

To make 4 pizzas (approx)-

Flour 600 grams
Water 390 mls
Sea salt 18 grams
Dry Yeast 3 grams (adjust accordingly depending on how many you are making)…

Method…

1. Add the water to a large bowl.
2. Add the salt and stir till dissolved.
3. Add about 10% of the flour until dissolved to act as a buffer to the yeast (as yeast doesn’t like salty water).
4. Then add the yeast.
5. Add the remaining flour and mix with a spoon. Keep on mixing until no longer dry and flakey.
6. Start kneading in the bowl until the consistency starts to get sticky and wet.
7. Take it out the bowl, put some flour on the table and then knead the dough for about 15 mins.
8. Shape into a large ball.
9. Brush a little olive oil into a bowl so your dough won’t dry out.
10. Cover with cling film and rest for 2 hours.
11. After 2 hours portion into 4 equally sized dough balls.
12. Place on a baking tray, brush with a little oil, cover with cling film and refrigerate for 4-6 hours.

Thats your dough done. 👏

In terms of pizzas toppings, our favourites are ham, rocket, onion, spring onion, peppers, buffalo mozzarella, sea salt and garlic, chorizo, halloumi and of course tomato passata for your base.

We then cook in the pizza oven for just a couple of minutes, continuing to turn it every minutes.

So delicious. I think if I could eat one food for the rest of my life it would be pizza! Whats your favourite pizza topping if you had to choose?

#pizza #pizzaoven #pizzalover #pizzaismyfavorite #pizzadough #pizzadoughfromscratch #pizzaislife #summerrecipes #simplerecipes #familymeals #summerentertaining

ad At around age 5 our eldest daughter started to like football. At age 6 she joined her first team, and ever since then football has been one of her greatest joys- she literally lives and breathes it. In turn she has made both her brother and sister (and even her mum haha) start to love football too, and now it has become one of our biggest shared family passions. We are proud supporters of the women’s game especially, and seeing how it is changing over the years even since we started watching.

When Nationwide Building Society got in touch with us to see if we would share all about their Where Greatness is Made campaign, it seemed like the perfect partnership as Mutual Respect in football is something we feel strongly about too. It’s been 50 years since the first official England Women Match and the women’s game is just getting better and better, we absolutely love it. Football has bought so much to our family, amongst other things it has given my kids such physical and mental benefits, it has given us a shared hobby, helped us meet new friends, and so much more.

Nationwide is asking people to sign their support, if you like football whether it be for you, your son, or your daughter, you can sign the @nationwidebuildingsociety pledge and help stand for #MutualRespect in football. The link is in my stories if you’d like to find out more. @englandfootball

Jon and I got up this morning and walked down to the sea front to take the dog for a walk as we often do when we visit my dads (we leave the kids chilling at home with them for half an hour or so). I love an early morning walk down to the sea. This time though I remembered to pack my swimming costume (I always forget!) and I went for a little early morning sea swim. It was so refreshing and the water wasn’t really that cold at all (compared to when I did it in January!). There were a few swimmers dotted about, but the beach was practically empty and so peaceful, my dad said he sees people swimming every day whatever the weather. I definitely would do it so much more if I lived near the sea.

I don’t know what it is about cold water swimming but it genuinely boosts your mood for the rest of the day. I love it so much. I would honestly love to live by the sea one day, it makes me just so happy. Right now we are settled and happy and wouldn’t move, but at some point in my life I hope I can wake up to the sea more often. In the meantime we feel lucky we get to visit my dad and stepmum in such a lovely place.

Does anyone else like cold water swimming? I’ve done it a few times this year, but I definitely prefer doing it in the sea to the river at home. 🌊

#coldwaterswimming #seaswimming #seaswim #coldwatertherapy #happyplace #ilovethesea #seaside #kentcoast

Filmed a little video outfit today (although I ended up changing into a t shirt in the end as the weather was a bit iffy). I’m loving wearing trousers that aren’t jeans, and I reckon if I could change my wardrobe to all linen at the moment if I could. 🤣 I love these tailored, striped trousers. Outfit details are below.

What are you up to this weekend? We are off to see my dad and step mum in Kent, we are very excited to see the sea (and them too haha). Although currently all we keep seeing is the back of other people’s cars as the Friday afternoon traffic is crazy. 🙃 Is anyone else doing anything fun?

Outfit details-

Top - H&M (old but they have these racer back tops everywhere at the moment, I love them.)
Trousers- ASOS (a few months ago so may still be online)
Shoes - Birkenstocks Arizonas (mine are a couple of years old but they never change the style)
Sunglasses- Rayban (old but perhaps they still do them)
Bag- Next (old)

#ootd #ootdfashion #everydayoutfit #dailystyle #asos #hm #outfitdiaries #summerstyle #summerfashion #simpleoutfit #simplefashion

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