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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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I’ve had such a nice day with Jon today (a belated anniversary treat, my mum picked the kids off from school for us). We headed to Norfolk for the day and had a little whistle stop tour. We started off our day at @urbanjungleuk_ (photo 4), which is a great garden centre with a huge indoor house plant section and a cafe (🐶friendly too). I’ve been wanting to go for ages. I bought a tiny little cactus for my collection. 🌵
Then we headed into Norwich for lunch, I found a dog friendly pub by googling on route called the @tenbellsnr2 and we shared some picky food (dirty fries my favourite 🥰- that’s photo 5). Then we had a little wander around Norwich, saw some pretty houses (Photo 3), before heading to our favourite beach in Norfolk, Wells-Next-The-Sea. It’s been the most bizarre weather in Norfolk today, one minute dark, rainy and grey and the next a tiny bit sunny. We walked along the beach for ages, Rolo had the time of his life, and I’ve never been so cold as it was rainy and windy.😆 We managed to see a pretty good stormy sunset, not an epic one, but better than I thought considering how rainy it’s been. It took 40 minutes for my fingers to warm up after.
Such a nice day together. 🤍

18 years of knowing him and he’ll still awkwardly sit in on a wet, cold beach and pose for a photo if I ask him too. 🤣🥰 I found these on my camera roll from when we went to the beach to see my dad for the day a couple of weeks ago and I really like them.
I still find it surreal we’ve known each other all that time, although at the same time I can’t imagine a time when I didn’t know Jon, or even a time when we didn’t have the kids. What did we do with our free time before them? 🤣
If you’ve got a partner, I’d love to know a fact about your relationship? Where did you meet? Or how long have you been together/known each other for? Jon and I met when I asked for a job application for a bar he managed in Leeds. It took us a while to get together, we were friends first. We celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary in December but have been together for nearly 16 years.
I’d love to know about yours. And if you haven’t got a partner, or don’t want to share that then something about yourself instead. 🥰

GIVEAWAY If you are anything like me I absolutely love having flowers in our home. They make me so happy and I absolutely love it if I am given a bouquet or if I treat myself to some (which I do love doing from time to time). They just instantly brighten up your home and make it feel so welcoming and cosy, especially in this gloomy January period when you have taken down the Christmas decorations. They are a perfect pick me up. 💕

I have two of these beautiful @efloristflowers bouquets to give away to two lucky winners…. All details are at the bottom of the caption.

Eflorist do the most gorgeous flowers, they delivered their first bouquet in 1947 and are also committed to supporting their growers, dedicating resources to farming communities across the world, and choosing British growers wherever possible. They are also proud to support local high streets, working closely with over 1,500 florist members who craft and hand-deliver their florist bouquets each day. The blooms are sent in bud, protecting the flowers in transit and so they will last longer in people’s homes.
The one in the photo is ’Serenity’, and includes peach avalanche roses, pink aqua roses and a mix of chrysanthemums and carnations.

If you would like to win one of two bouquets to send to someone special then all you need to do is…

1) Follow @efloristflowers on instagram
2) Like this post and comment below who you’d sent your bouquet too (it can of course be yourself- we all deserve flowers for ourselves!)
3) Extra entry if you tag a friend as I’ll pick a comment from random, but it’s not a compulsory rule on entry.
Winners will be chosen at random and announced on Friday 14th January on this post. Good luck! :)
#eflorist #efloristflowers

I ticked off a little goal of mine and went for a cold water dip in the sea yesterday morning. I’ve been wild swimming a few times before, but never in winter, and I’ve been meaning to try it for ages. We decided we were going to go to watch the sunrise on the beach so I thought I’d give it a go.
I absolutely loved it, i was only in for about 5 minutes but it gave me the biggest high. I’d heard people say it does, but honestly as cheesy as it sounds, I felt so alive. 🤣🙃 I genuinely felt so good for a good couple of hours afterwards. I’m definitely going to do it again, if you read up on the benefits of cold water therapy it’s really interesting.
I’m trying to do little things to make me feel good this year (we’ll see how long that will last 🤣). I really do feel like I have made myself feel so sluggish over the last year and a half, not taking care of myself as much as I could do. I’m not necessarily talking exercise, it’s little things like having a nice hot bath and pampering myself a bit, or going to bed early and reading a book instead of scrolling on Instagram. Or going on much longer solo walks with a podcast or audiobook (I walk quite a bit but I want to try and walk for longer if I can or find new routes instead of sticking to the same old ones just for convenience) . Or just immersing myself in nature more and being outside, which seriously is my favourite thing and always makes me feel great. When I make the effort to do them I feel so much better and I want to try and do that a bit more this year. I absolutely loved yesterday, watching the sunrise and feeling the cold water.
Do you have any random little goals for this year? I don’t always keep them but I do love the feeling of resetting in a way, even though I am aware I could start these things at any other point in the calendar. 🤣

Yesterday we went for a long walk in a forest with my sister and her boyfriend. I took my camera with me (it’s a little goal of mine to take it out more this year), and took some photos as we were walking round (I also took some nice ones of the two of them too 🥰). The weather was so mild we didn’t need coats, although Wren wanting to just wear a t-shirt was a slightly extreme, they were running around loads to be fair. 🤣
Here’s to spending as much time outdoors in 2022. Never happier than when we are outside exploring. It just makes me feel happy being in the fresh air.🍃🌲🌿🌱
PS I love the first photo, we obviously don’t usually walk in a line like that 😉, but we thought we’d take one like it. If we ever release an album that can be the cover 😂 (This is Thetford Forest by the way, it’s great for a walk, if you park at High Lodge there’s loads of things to do, amazing playgrounds for the kids, bike trails, cafe, go ape etc too).

A few random photo memories of our Christmas period, including this first one of my handsome boy in a bow tie. 🥰 I love it as it’s rare he keeps still long enough for a photo with him nowadays, let alone with him looking so fancy 🤣 (that’s the third year in a row he’s worn that shirt, I bought it very big 😉). Other memories are of the important task of blowing out 11 candles on a Christmas Eve birthday cake, the present hit of three giant squishmallows 😅, and the fact our neighbour left a surprise Santa suit gift on the doorstep for Rolo on Christmas Day. Plus some other random photos.❤️

I hope you have all had a great few days, even if it wasn’t what you were expecting. I also hope it was as kind to you as it could be if you are going through a tough time.
Ours has been low key but nice. It’s never perfect when you throw families, over tired kids, and general chaos into the mix, but we made some lovely memories and the children had the best time which is the main thing. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the last few days of eating far too much food, doing jigsaws (we never do jigsaws any other time bar Christmas but I always bloody love a jigsaw🤣), not knowing what day it is ( I’m still not sure to be honest), and just generally ‘relaxing’ (as much as you can relax with 3 kids and a dog).
The decorations are still up here and I’m still fully embracing ‘this random time between Christmas and New Year’ mode. How has your festive period been? 🤍

Wishing you the happiest of Christmases from our family to yours. I hope that Christmas is as kind to you as it can be, mixed with a little bit of magic too.
Sending extra love to anyone missing someone very special, to those who are finding the festive period tough, and to those who might not be having the Christmas that they had hoped for for whatever reason.
I’m looking forward to spending some quality time with my little family, although we all know that while there are lots of happy moments and lovely memories, it’s never Christmas without the bickering, over tired children and odd family drama. 🤣
Sending lots and lots of love to you all and see you on the other side. Merry Christmas xxx

11 today. 🎈Our Christmas Eve girl is 11 today. I know I say it every year, for every birthday, but I cannot believe how fast it’s going. I genuinely cannot believe you are 11. I can’t even really put into words how proud I am of you. You are growing into a mature, happy and beautiful person… incredibly kind, caring, and thoughtful, and always looking out for others. You always have such a sparkle in your eyes, a huge smile on your face and your sense of humour really is the best. You don’t ever stop talking (literally ever), but I laugh and laugh and laugh with you- we all adore you, Lottie and Wren included.
You are a fantastic big sister and a truly fantastic daughter. You are so affectionate and loving in the funniest way, and we love you all the more for it. Don’t get me wrong, you have your moments, you can be grumpy and you can make me so cross at times 🙃, but I genuinely wouldn’t change a thing about you (bar your messiness perhaps 🤣).
I can’t wait to see what the next year will bring you, so many changes looming on the horizon with secondary school.
Happy 11th birthday our darling Mads. Thank you for being you. Xxx

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