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Started exploring our new local National Trust pro

Started exploring our new local National Trust properties today.

This one was a Tudor hunting lodge with a stunning view. Although their spelling was pretty terrible, the Tudors knew how to pick a plot.

The weather was also glorious. I even nearly fell asleep on a bench in the sun. Thankfully my youngest noticed I was dozing off and woke me up.

#nationaltrust #ntnewarkpark #gloucestershire #my1440 #familytime #walkies

Rolling down some of our new local hills. The vi

Rolling down some of our new local hills.

The views in the background are a little distracting at times.

Great to have places like this on our doorstep though.

#417bikepark #bikepark #mtb #downhill

Today we're celebrating Tessa. "If we didn’t ha

Today we're celebrating Tessa.

"If we didn’t have birthdays, you wouldn’t be you.
If you’d never been born, well then what would you do?
...
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is You-er than You!"

Happy 1st Birthday to our bright, loud, cheeky, speedy, happy, gorgeous lady.

#birthdaygirl #onetoday #family

I decided to put some of my favourite personal sho

I decided to put some of my favourite personal shots into an album last month.

It was difficult trying to choose which photos would make it.

They're not necessarily my 'best' photos but they all form part of a special memory.

With so many photos living in digital it's nice to have some printed and preserved forever.

I'd highly recommend it even if it's just getting photos off your phone and into a book.

Software like Saal make it so easy to upload your photos and then click a button to arrange them all in your photobook. You can then do your rearranging, cropping, scaling etc. to get them just right.

The finished book feels really nice with a thick perspex cover and the pages are nice and weighty. My photos were printed on a matt photo paper so not as full colour as you'd get from gloss, but I think it suits my pics well.

#photobook #memories #canon #80d #my1440 #photographer #saaldigital

@saaldigital_uk @saal_digital

Found ourselves in the Forest of Dean by chance.

Found ourselves in the Forest of Dean by chance.

We'd planned to visit a poppy and wildflower field but we were too late.

So found another equally gorgeous spot to sit and eat our lunch and grab a coffee.

We're excited to have so many new places to explore right on our doorstep.

#cotswoldlife #fod #forestofdean #my1440 #familytime #handgeladdict #babyalco

2 days of decorating has resulted in this. Nearly

2 days of decorating has resulted in this. Nearly there. 9 rooms to go after this one, not including the ones that are yet to be created.

#diy #newroom #decorating #my1440 #newhome

With the move happening so quickly there are so ma

With the move happening so quickly there are so many last times that we didnt realise may be our last time at the time.

Like our last @chichiscoffeeandwaffle with Rich and the team.

Our last lazy lunch at @hellozippola

Our last wander through Whitewebbs and Hillyfields.

Today Seb and I went out for a quick ride to our local jump track. Amongst all the frantic moving stuff we've got to remember that this is a huge change for Seb. Fitting in time to do little things that he's going to miss will hopefully help the transition.

With all the drama of the last few weeks I was more relieved than excited this morning when we exchanged. But when Seb heard, he was jumping up and down cheering. I'm glad he's happy to be moving, but he came up with the word 'hushie' today to describe how he feels. It's a mix of happy and sad. Happy to be doing something new, but sad to be leaving things behind.

Tessa will most likely not even remember living in London. She may even start speaking with a Gloucestershire accent, with an Aussie twang of course.

#my1440 #en2trailcrew #mtb #onelasttime

So, this is happening. After nearly 8 years in th

So, this is happening.

After nearly 8 years in this 120 year old house we're finally escaping London to live in the country. We've loved living here and turning it into what it is, but it's now time to pass it onto another family.

The selling and buying process hasn't been without its challenges, at several points we thought it wouldn't happen. But five months later its all done. Contracts signed and moving day set.

In 6 days, we'll be waking up to a view of the Cotswolds. Until we get curtains.

As a family this is probably one of the biggest changes we'll make. It means leaving family and friends behind and starting a new life in a different place.

Scary.

But it's also exciting that we're moving somewhere we've spent a long time looking for. An area that's more green, less congested, more spacious and less frantic.

Now I've just got to choose which bubbly to open when we move in. Got to be English Sparkling, surely.

#nextchapter #villagelife #countrybumpkin #sold #moving #my1440 #englishsparkling

Today we spent the day being tourists in London.

Today we spent the day being tourists in London.

It was Tessa's first time in Central London, and the most people she's ever seen, having spent half her life in lockdown.

We saw the big wheel, the big clock, the big house, the big square with the pole and the fancy bridge, amongst other things.

In the early days of our relationship we used to spend weekends wandering around London. Once we moved out to the 'burbs we only really went in to the centre for something specific. So it was nice to just spend a day wandering

#london #tourists #dayout #familytime #my1440

A little while back I did a short online course ab

A little while back I did a short online course about Napa Valley. An area that I'm slowly becoming more familiar with.

It's always interesting to delve deeper into wine regions and really get to know them, and the Napa Valley Rocks course was great for that.

After completing the course they sent me this bottle of Napa Pinot. Can't wait to open it.

For my 40th I was thinking of doing a big trip somewhere and Napa was high on that list. The trip didn't happen but I'm still really keen to visit the area and explore the gorgeous vineyards. Maybe in a Ferrari California, for my 50th 😁

#itsfromnapa #gettasting #napacares #thedrinkstrust #californianwine #pinotnoir #napavalley

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