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Cheering your progress and achievements April 2020

May 10, 2020 by Kate Davis Leave a Comment

Cheering your progress April 2020

How did you find April? I can’t believe we’re now in May. We’ve been able to focus on settling into the new way of life, that was all a rush in March. We’re developing our family routine.

Cheering your progress April 2020

Family home – 6th anniversary (dones and not dones)

April 9, 2019 by Kate Davis Leave a Comment

We’ve had another year of turning our house in to our family home. My husband has fitted ceiling spotlights and internal doors and we’ve both chopped lots and lots of wood.

Family home – 5th anniversary (dones and not dones)

June 30, 2018 by Kate Davis 1 Comment

Family home dones and not dones 5 year anniversary

Since February, we’ve been in our house for five years, and the last year has been a busy one with noticeable changes. Done The biggest change has been in the area where my husband (and kids) knocked down the walls last year. My father in law and husband built new walls to create a study, utility room and shower room. They have also tiled the hall, shower room and utility room and fitted the shower toilet and Continue Reading …

Family home dones and not dones 5 year anniversary

Tomorrow I am going to start a new regime – journal extract 28th March 1992

July 31, 2017 by Kate Davis Leave a Comment

Tomorrow I'm going to start new regime

My 1992 journal continues to be full of angst. And it is uncomfortable to read as it brings back memories of how unhappy I was. However, this entry has some hope because I’ve decided to take some positive action and start a new regime. But I have to admit I’m a little concerned (and embarrassed) that 25 years on I’m still working on getting to bed earlier and eating healthier. I’m now asking the question, Continue Reading …

Tomorrow I'm going to start new regime

Family home – 4th anniversary (dones and not dones)

February 14, 2017 by Kate Davis Leave a Comment

family home 4th anniversary dones and not dones

Looking back on the last year in our house it has been another quiet one, but we have started knocking down the walls. Only non-structural ones, but it is a start. So here is a list of the things we’ve done and still need to do. Done The biggest thing we’ve done is knock down some downstairs walls, including the one the children and their friends painted, yes it was sad, but we let them paint Continue Reading …

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How’s the darktea brewing? #3

June 12, 2016 by Kate Davis Leave a Comment

how is the darktea brewing

Not exactly a great start to these monthly reviews by missing two months. I’m still working on getting used to working full time and with a longer commute and unfortunately it is my blogger time that has suffered the most. However, I hope I’m on the cusp of getting back to a more balanced routine. Improving my sleep My only resolution this year is to improve my sleep and last month I got to bed earlier than January Continue Reading …

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How is the darktea brewing? #2

March 29, 2016 by Kate Davis Leave a Comment

how is the darktea brewing

Seeing as we’re almost at the end of March it seems a bit late to be reviewing my progress in February. However, I don’t want to give up on these progress posts after just one month. I’ve been quiet this month here and on social media because I started a new job at the end of February which is very exciting after my role was made redundant in October last year, but I’m still getting used Continue Reading …

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How is the darktea brewing? #1

February 20, 2016 by Kate Davis 2 Comments

how is the darktea brewing

This is my new monthly progress post, but as I did progress posts for two years up to 2009 I wanted to call this something different and came up with something a little cheesy. Unlike my previous posts these are going to focus on two areas I’m looking to improve this year, my sleep and reading self improvement books. Improving my sleep My one resolution this year is to improve my sleep as I believe it will Continue Reading …

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Family home – 3rd anniversary (dones and not dones)

February 16, 2016 by Kate Davis 2 Comments

3rd home anniversary dones and not dones

Looking back on the third year in our house it has been quieter than the second year, but we’ve continued to make progress in a number of areas. However, I’m hoping we’ll take bigger actions in the fourth year, including finally knocking down some walls. Done The best thing we’ve achieved is to cut down trees in our neighbours’ gardens. All the trees were overhanging the boundary and were either significantly blocking light or there Continue Reading …

3rd home anniversary dones and not dones

2014 blog review

January 8, 2015 by Kate Davis Leave a Comment

2014 was a good blogging year. My main highlight was going to my first blogging conference and meeting other bloggers; in fact once I realised how much I enjoyed them I went to another three (my conference posts are Blogcamp, BritMums Live and Blogfest). Other highlights include: creating videos showing the changes we’re going to make to our house participating in Twitter chats joining Instagram creating a Google+ group to provide a place for people to Continue Reading …

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