June fun and frolics
Apart from June appearing to mark the return of winter at times – back in woolly winter tights, coats and heating on one moment then summer a moment later – it was rather a lovely month! We were still on a high from our amazing trip to Israel but there was other stuff…
View PostMay fun and frolics
May marked the arrival of summer, we skipped spring it would seem and went straight into warmer weather. Not of course for the first May bank holiday – for that we still had frosty mornings and the need for multiple layers of merino if braving the outside! For the second one, for the…
View PostApril fun and frolics
April is the month that ‘petrichor’ arrives – the alluring smell of warm pavements and rain showers… Not this year, there weren’t really any warm pavements, and we had snow in London just days from the start of May! April 3rd was our 6th wedding anniversary – time is flying! I went away with…
View PostMarch fun and frolics
Well March will definitely go down as one of the toughest but most rewarding months. Suffice to say, champagne was drunk on a number of occasions and it was richly deserved. Now we are at the end of the month it is trying to warm up and I can almost sniff spring in the…
View PostFebruary fun and frolics
February started well – after a dry January, the 1st of February was always going to have just a little sparkle to it – a quiet night in on my own with a glass of pink champagne, homemade lemon cheesecake (without cheese) and my new favourite Netflix box set – Suits! Back to…
View PostJanuary fun and frolics
January for its dryness was very wet indeed. That’s wet from the sky not a bottle. I decided to do my first dry January and apart from a glass of red wine at 2am on 1st January as something of a night cap, I’ve had a lovely month of fruit juice and soda water,…
View PostTake 12 trips
12 months, 12 trips. Easy you’d think for somebody that likes to travel? Not so. There are months when we are either busy or away travelling with work and just want to hold the sofa down or enjoy a weekend in the garden and not go out and have an adventure. Despite this,…
View PostPenelope & Parker in December
December has been wet, I’d have lost count of the number of storms if it wasn’t for the new approach of naming each with a consecutive letter of the alphabet. I believe we were up to F by the end of December and I think it is fair to say most of the…
View Post10 not so perfect 2015 moments
Blogs tend to focus on the picture perfect postcard side of life… Nobody really wants to read about the less successful or less beautiful parts of the year. But actually looking back on some of the less glossy moments of the year has made me chuckle. Looking back on some of the less glossy…
View Post1 more step along the world I go
One more step along the world I go… It is incredible how much changes in a year, as we travel from the old things to the new… The amount of things we do, the people we meet, the memories we make – 365 short days turn a year into something rather memorable! It…
View PostPenelope & Parker in November
Winter definitely arrived in November, it teased us for a while and then bam – hat, scarf and gloves and winter coats are de rigeur once again. It isn’t all doom and gloom though – the days start getting longer again soon! November has been busy but yet it seems to have stretched…
View PostOctober with Penelope and Parker
And so we say hello to November… I’m really not sure how that happened – Christmas doesn’t feel that long ago! October was another month spent at home – I have enjoyed being based in the UK with work and spending weekends relaxing with Mr P, seeing friends and enjoying a spot of…
View PostSeptember with Penelope and Parker
September – it went in the blink of an eye! I thought it would go slowly as I had no travel planned for work or pleasure. But it rattled past – quite pleasantly in fact too! This year I have been diligently sticking to (at least) 1 trip every month as part of…
View PostPenelope and Parker in August
August – another month that went by in a blur, in fact 2015 has a bit of a theme to it it seems! As is customary, here’s my best bits! View this post on Instagram A post shared by Anna Parker (@annaeparker) The month started warm, thank goodness – we immediately made the…
View PostPenelope and Parker in July
2015 is flying along, it is quite incredible to think we are already closer to Christmas than we are to the start of this year. July could well have been a glum month – with holiday blues – but in actual fact it turned out pretty peachy – here’s my highlights! View this post on…
View PostJune travels with Penelope and Parker
June, since January, has been the month that we have been most anticipating. We booked our big trip to America as a bit of retail therapy at new year (no advance planning, we just booked it to raise smiles) and have been looking forward to it ever since. The start of the year was…
View PostMay days with Penelope and Parker
May has rattled past without much time to take breath! Only 4 flights for me which by recent levels is quite low! Nice to have my feet on the ground and plenty of time at home even whilst work was busy. Lots of time in London as is increasingly the case – but…
View PostApril travels with Penelope and Parker
April is only 30 days long granted, but I didn’t realise a month could pass so blooming quickly – where did it go?… Well – I suspect if I did some quick maths it would know that I spent more time either in the air, an airport lounge or a hotel than I had…
View PostPenelope and Parker in March
April is running away and March already feels like a cold month that has been replaced by spring sunshine and warmth… March was busy indeed – here’s a summary Flipagram: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Anna Parker (@annaeparker) We came home from Paris full of energy from 3 days…
View PostPenelope and Parker in February
February has flown by at a terrifying speed… click here for the full flipagram of the best bits (needs a little time to load – the…) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Anna Parker (@annaeparker) Countless times this month I have thought spring was here, and then the next day we’ve…
View PostPenelope and Parker in January
Where did January go? It’s the 7th February when I am writing this and we are already rattling towards March! Time does go quicker as we get older!! This is the first month in a year when I haven’t taken a photo every day of the month – oh what a release it…
View PostBest of 2014
What I have loved (and, frequently hated) about this year is that I have captured and recorded a photo for every day of the year – just one left to go for tomorrow! I’ve put them all in one place if you want to have a rapid look! It’s been interesting, and flicking back…
View PostFavourite photos from 2013
This weeks #frifotos got me thinking about what are my favourite pictures from 2013… I found a few on Friday to share: But they were just the ones to hand on my iPhone! I’ve looked back through each trip we took this year to find some favourites… Jamaica was a good start to…
View Post2013 in months – the best bits!
The end of my year is not as planned… today we should be enroute to Cornwall to see my Grandparents and to enjoy the outdoors and the Christmas lights in Mousehole, and some lovely Cornish pasties and ales. Instead I am under a blanket enjoying day nurse every 4 hours and lots of…
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