Hello lovely people of the world,

It has been a while, hasn’t it? I did the typical Lia thing of disappearing off the face of the blogging earth, kind of out of the fear that what I write isn’t interesting or needed so slowly drifting off the internet and into a pit of “why bother?”. Which is ever so funny and very ironic as I’m a champion for people doing what they want and not caring what others think of them but I’m not so brilliant at doing it myself, which leads me to this weird kind of return where I imagine I’m standing at some form of doorway awkwardly waving and saying “hi blog, sorry I left, can I come in and possibly have a cuppa?”.

As I sit here cosy under my Friends blanket with a Christmas candle lit I have no idea where I’m going to take my posts, or how regular I will post, but I want to try somehow to spread some positivity in this crazy world. I find it so easy to get caught up in what’s going on and sit shouting at the news, and I’m not for one minute saying to ignore that because you know we can’t really escape the pandemic, but we can all do our little bit to make our tiny parts of the world a bit happier.

I’ll do a little catch up since it has been about 7 years since I wrote a blog post, I’m now a full-time working gal and what an exciting time that is. I’d say I’m now a proper grown-up, but I still live with my parents and don’t have the responsibility of feeding myself (big credit to Mumma G and her wonderful weekly menus). I’m currently very good at staying in bed until I really have to get up, which is really annoying because when I was at uni I was brilliant at getting out of bed, and then very good at coming home and doing not a lot. I’m attempting to shift out of this because I do this amazing thing where I end up loathing myself for doing nothing, my brain is very kind to me. I finally got my fancy stood next to the Sheffield Hallam University sign with my dissertation picture, currently picking out in my head what wall this will go on in the house that I do not have. Of course, I have already started Christmas shopping, let’s be honest I started this around April time. I recently visited Cornwall which was a bloody lovely place and I thoroughly enjoyed it and felt very refreshed when I returned home and was very grateful that I managed to get away for a little break in the weird world of 2020. Oh, and I’ve started to learn Spanish (via Duolingo and am exploring other options too, any top tips please be kind and share them). In very sad news for my catch up, at the beginning of August we sadly lost our wonderful dog Pippa. I still struggle now to comprehend what happened but find comfort in the fact we gave her a bloody good life. She was my very best friend and I will forever miss her and love her always.

When I started to type this blog post I have to admit I did feel a bit nervous and unsure whether I was doing the right thing by coming back after such a long time but I feel excited to be able to share positivity and ramble on about nothing. I’m going to take some time this week to have a hot drink, get my notebook out and some very colourful pens and just dump everything out of my brain for how we can make this crazy time a little chirpier.

Have a wonderful Sunday!
Love from,
Lia x