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  • It has taken a little longer than we anticipated, but we are there with our new bathroom! Really happy with how it’s all turned out!

    A bathroom features a sink with a mirrored cabinet, a window with frosted glass, and a plant on the windowsill.A small bathroom features a white tiled wall, a toilet, a white cabinet with greenery on top, and a dark blue upper wall with a white clock.A modern bathroom features a white tiled corner with a bathtub, an overhead shower, and a glass partition.A bathroom features a blue and white tiled wall with a chrome towel rack, hooks, and a shelf, alongside a white door and patterned floor tiles.A modern bathroom features a combination of white and navy blue walls, a bathtub with a glass screen, patterned floor tiles, and a small window.

    New Bathroom 2025

    → 7:58 PM, 31 Jan

  • And then she was 16!

    We love you Eloise, and are so proud of who you are and all you do. Whether it’s through your passion for art and theatre, the way your laugh lights up a room, or your love for your friends, you make the world better with everything you do and everywhere you go. Our lives were wonderfully changed from the moment you first arrived—and have been every day since. You are amazing. Never stop being you!

    The day you changed our lives forever

    Sam and Eloise in hospital just after Eloise was born.

    16 years later, and you’re still lighting up our world

    Sam and Eloise standing together on a rocky coastline with a cloudy sky in the background.

    → 5:06 PM, 28 Jan

  • DIY day today: one old bed dismantled, new one waiting to be assembled. Onward!

    → 11:27 AM, 25 Jan

  • Good progress from the builders today on the bathroom wall tiling. They’re aiming to finish the tiling tomorrow. I’d hoped everything would be wrapped up by then, but it’s looking more like early next week now.

    New Bathroom 2025

    → 5:11 PM, 23 Jan

  • The bathroom floor is down. You never quite know how something is going to look when picking tiles, but I love how this has turned out.

    New Bathroom 2025

    → 4:40 PM, 22 Jan

  • Underfloor heating is going in today.

    New Bathroom 2025

    → 2:42 PM, 20 Jan

  • Most of the ground work and preparation for reconfiguring the new bathroom is done. And the new bath is now in! Should all start coming together next week with tiling and remaining fixtures and fittings. We’re getting there!

    New Bathroom 2025

    → 6:44 AM, 18 Jan

  • 🥃 Trying out my first English whisky tonight.

    → 7:30 PM, 14 Jan

  • A room filled with stacked cardboard boxes, various packages, and furniture against a colourful, patterned wallpaper.

    We have a new bathroom! It’s just currently all stacked up in our family room. Excited to see it start to come together more in the coming days though.

    New Bathroom 2025

    → 2:09 PM, 14 Jan

  • Day two of the bathroom do-over was much less dramatic. Lots of the groundwork was done with shifting water pipes around as everything is getting moved to different locations. Froze all day as the water and heating had to be off! 🥶

    New Bathroom 2025

    → 10:34 PM, 9 Jan

  • Auto-generated description: A bathroom under renovation features exposed brick walls, a bathtub, a toilet, and a frosted window.

    Day one of our bathroom do-over. It’s going to be a challenging few weeks while the work is done, but I’m excited by the prospect of a new bathroom when it’s complete.

    New Bathroom 2025

    → 7:37 PM, 8 Jan

  • Made a few tweaks to the styling of my blog today. Small things, but they help make it feel more like mine, and hopefully easier to read—in light and dark mode.

    → 7:39 PM, 6 Jan

  • Back to work today. So not ready for this! Wish I’d taken off today and tomorrow and was returning on Monday. Lesson learned!

    → 1:50 PM, 2 Jan

  • First use of my new tea tray that I got for Christmas.

    → 4:14 PM, 30 Dec
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