Life, Loves, and Lipstick

So one big thing that's been going on in my life lately has been the process of selling my house and looking for a new, bigger one with my other half.  It's been quite a rollercoaster... I moved a few times as a kid, but as an adult, without my parents, I've only ever moved from a rented flat into a rented house (so an exciting improvement), and from a rented house into buying my first one. So it's always been about leaving somewhere that wasn't 'mine'/I was just renting and somewhere with issues. This time it feels so different. This has been my house and home for years. I've loved it here.  It's such a cool house, with lovely wooden floors, original 30s/40s doors with bakelite handles, a beautiful south facing great sized garden, a quiet street.  But, unless we extended and lost the space/drive on the side (it's a semi-detached) it will always just be a 2 bed house, and when you both work from home and have fair bit of 'stuff', there ju...

Hi blog world. Wow it's been a long time since I blogged.  There's a bunch of stuff I want to write about, serious life stuff like family relationships, anxiety, moving house, health stress and some light hearted stuff like pursuing a new hobby, interior design planning and some new shows we've given a go recently that I'd like to recommend. For now, I'm going to do a little summing up blog post about the above, and things I'll go into more detail on separately. So, main updates from the past (almost) 12 months... In 2020 we started to talk about what we both want in the future, and starting a family came up, something neither of us thought we'd genuinely wanted previously, but it was lovely to realise we had both started to feel that we'd like to take our relationship to another level. However, it wouldn't be an option where we couldn't live really due to lack of space.  So, we decided to put our/my house on the market early 2021 and should be m...