I've spent most of my weekend in wellies this week. Kicking up leaves, splashing in puddles, searching for conkers, making dens and squishing through mud. It's been the best and I'm loving that my boys are at this age (2 and 3) where going for a

Thank you so, so much to everyone who has applied to join The Travel Hack team! I've had 256 applications so I'm REALLY sorry if I haven't replied to you yet. Most of the team is now finalised and I'll be revealing who the new Travel Hacks

I've had a fairly chilled out week this week. Well, as chilled out as it can get when you've got a 3 month old baby, you're renovating a house and you're expanding your blog to include a whole team of bloggers! I've had over 200 applications

Happy weekend everyone! I've got another 3-day weekend this week because I'm off to Swansea today. If it's all gone to plan, I should almost be there by the time you read this. Fingers crossed but I'm starting to realise that nothing really goes to plan when

It's the weekend! Get the kettle on or pour yourself a cold one while you dig in to some of my favourite posts from around the blogosphere. Warning: Most of these posts will cause serious wanderlust.   The Jungalow It’s not very often I recommend an entire website but

It’s been such a long time since I’ve put together a Weekend Reads post and I thought it was time to revive it. Since having George I’ve spent A LOT of time reading blogs and it’s turned out to the perfect way to keep me entertained

Happy Friday everyone! It’s nearly the weekend! I’m not normally quite so excited about the weekend. Working from home means the line between weekdays and weekends is a little blurry, but this weekend I’m going to Sweden so I’m like an excited kid gathering up my winter

Has it really been nearly 2 months since I posted a Weekend Reads? It's been such a busy few months I've barely had time to write, never mind read! What I've been Writing A Blood and Earth Cookery Course in Dublin with Domestic Godless A sneaky peak at Lavazza's

Happy Friday! This week's Weekend Reads are coming to you from Egypt where it's currently 9am and temperatures are already soaring towards 35 degrees. Yes, at 9am! I spent my first two days here doing exactly what you're meant to do on a traditional, old-fashioned holiday. I did

Hello and happy Friday! I’m writing this from the sea as I sail from Mykonos to Istanbul. This week I’ve been travelling with Celebrity Cruises. We began in Venice on Monday, followed by Dubrovnik, Mykonos and finally Istanbul today. I’m having such an incredible time, not only

Introducing Girl Tweets World {Girl Tweets World} Eeek, this is very exciting. My friend and blogging buddy, Jayne Gorman, has revamped her blog, 40 Before 30, and given it a whole new look, feel and name. Jayne was on a mission to visit 40 countries before she

Hi there and welcome to another Weekend Reads where I share everything I've been reading and writing around the web this week. I've had another week at home while I've been doing my best to begin training for my Ironman challenge and catching up on blog writing. Here's

This week has been one of my very rare chilled out weeks and I've loved every second of it. I've been having dinner with friends, drinking wine in the garden, walking my pooch and I had a couple of days in London working on exciting new

This week has been busy but incredible as I travelled to Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. I'm going to be writing all about it next week but I will say now that I LOVED it. Ljubljana is such a beautiful hidden gem and the small city makes a

It’s been a couple of weeks since my last Weekend Reads because I’ve been such a busy bee travelling in the USA. I had the most incredible time as I travelled from Miami to LA and then road tripped around California and Nevada. There were a

With just 3 days to go until I leave for my epic trip to the States, all of my blog reading attention has been going towards the USA. I'm so excited about this trip and I can't wait to leave but I do love this pre-holiday

Anyone that follows me on Twitter will know that I read a lot of blogs. I love nothing more than spending half an hour each morning with a pot of tea and my iPad as I flick through my favourite blogs. Then if I can spend