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UK based Lifestyle & Parenting Blog, it's the 'Scrapbook of our lives' together. Featuring reviews, days out, food, fashion and more.

ScrapbookBlog.co.uk - est 2011

You'll find all sorts of things on the blog and our vlogs covering where we go, what love and lots more in between, it's the scrapbook of our lives. You can also find me:
www.instagram.com/scrapbook.lives
www.youtube.com/user/lozkp
www.twitter.com/scrapbooklives

I also offer social media management and copy-writing on a freelance basis.

11/11/2024

Sibling love = Athena looking up how to do things on Animal Crossing for Arlo.
The dynamic has definitely changed since she started secondary school, but there are still glimmers.

24/10/2024

Roll on next week's school holiday. 🖕

This 8 week long half term can DO ONE. So fed up with literally pushing Athena out of bed in the morning because she's slept through her alarm. The sheer amount of organising involved when they reach secondary is nuts... All the different apps, the endless requests for money (by school, not her!) the stress of running out of data when your train ticket is on your phone... The stress of the trains being up the spout, the massive amounts of homework (that the parent app helpfully tells us is not complete even when it is and 'youll know if your child didn't complete it as they'll get a consequence mark' - this hasn't happened because she's a conscientious kid but it means we need to look at Google classroom on top of the bloody s**t app!)

Let's not mention spending 60 quid on shoes that gave her blisters so bad on both feet she was hobbling.

Aaaaargh. Will enjoy a week off from it all, even though I've not got any time off work myself 🙈

07/09/2024

Week one of secondary school has been a success for Athena: the trains, the rain, the finding the way round a massive school, the horrific blazer, shirt and tie situation... nothing seems to phase her. She had a week away at camp in the last week of the holidays, didn't miss us at all and had a blast, plus loved being a bridesmaid for her auntie and just seems too grown up!

Hoping any other new year 7s are getting on okay too!

05/08/2024

Sunny Monday evening strolls... We felt like we had to get the kids out of the house as we were both working all day 🙀

17/07/2024

How is this little girl about to finish year 6? A few more days of fun, activities, leavers services and tears to get through and then secondary school is round the corner!

15/07/2024

A brief flit to Norfolk to celebrate with ...just one month to go till 'I do' 👰💒💖

06/06/2024

E L E V E N ✌️
Athena had had a brilliant birthday today, a waterpark & exploring sand dunes - as well as basically a week of celebrations (well actually a month - as we gave her a main present of a new Fender acoustic a month ago today so she could use it in her lessons).
Still amazes me that she's off to secondary school in about 12 weeks, she reached the top of the waiting list for our top choice school this week and we gave her the option to accept it if she wanted to but she is adamant that the school she was awarded (2nd choice) is where she wants to go - even though she doesnt know a soul going there and half her current cohort are going to the other school! She knows her mind and she's not afraid to be out of her comfort zone 🥰🤩

29/04/2024

Bluebells 🌱 A little jaunt through the woods this evening with the biggest one and Sam whilst Arlo was at Cubs. There are still so many bluebells about! Hoping the nicer weather sticks around as twilight stroll in the woods is a lovely way to wind down of an evening 🩵💙🩵💙

14/04/2024

I have this thing with windows...
A selection of lovely and very old windows at Arundel Castle. We spent the day there exploring on Easter Saturday. Will try and remember to share some more photos at some point as the castle really is beautiful. It's ten minutes away and we'd never been inside before, just around the gardens.

12/04/2024

Arlo loves a bit of crazy golf so we booked a game at GloBalls as part of his bday celebrations. Eye wateringly bright but lots of fun. We did the Zootopia course (I believe, it was a couple of weeks ago!) but there were 3 or 4 to choose from.

31/03/2024

N I N E 🎉💙🤸‍♂️🧁🩵
Celebrating a Birthday and Easter Sunday all in one day (when the clocks go forward🙈) is all fun and games! We spent the day at Arundel Castle yesterday and took one of Arlo's friends with us too - so we're all doubly exhausted today,with another day of celebrations tomorrow!

28/03/2024

Swinging into a long weekend (and a clock change, and Arlo's birthday) and couldn't be happier about it!

10/03/2024

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24/01/2024

Forty. Blood hell!
Had a thoroughly lovely birthday (no work, no school runs, brunch with Sam and SIX new house plants 🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴)

09/01/2024

I quite like having a little stroll through Chichester on my lunch break - working opposite the cathedral is lovely too. Just a shame my break is only half an hour 🤭
I think we're more or less in the swing of things post-christmas now, I'm working further from home and my lovely friend has started a new role too so between us (and Sam, and my friends dad!) we're juggling the school runs/work and everything else!
I do realise this is a very dull post but I barely use Instagram these days, and I actually love reading other people's normal every day goings on 🤷

17/11/2023

Eleven years...not ten as I wrote in Sam's card. Oops 🙈

20/10/2023

What a week 😩
Glad it's over & now we have a week away with friends AND we're off to a wedding too! Tres exciting 🥳

14/09/2023

Two little helpers at the allotment tonight 🌞🌻

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A little allotment update. I'm finding it hard to keep on top of it, in fact I am very much under it: weeds, things that aren't growing and things that are but have been eaten. I'm working two jobs, trying to sort out the garden at home, volunteering with scouts and all the other life admin stuff that life chucks at us and just find it hard to get there much, but I feel so much better when I've been - so should prioritise it more. The lighter evenings deffo help! #allotmentlife #downattheallotment #growyourown

January 2024

September in 30 seconds 🥰

Ad|gifted📚📚 @summersdalebooks sent the children three books to help support them during #childrensmentalhealthweek (and beyond, of course) Giving our children the emotional support they need to learn about themselves and how to overcome tough things is important to us, and often the best way to do this is by giving them the autonomy to work through things in fun ways, like journalling. These books are ideal, things are explained in bitesize ways, with simple instructions for breathing exercises and other ways they can tune in to their own minds and how they work. Summersdale have a big range of books for both adults and kids if there's something that you might want to work on for yourself or your children. #childrensmentalhealthweek2023 #mindfulnessforkids #journalling #cbtjournal #becalm #Agirlsguidetobeibgawesome #myworryjournal #summersdalebooks #summersdale #kidsmentalhealth #mentalhealthmatters🧠

I met my reading target of 50 books for the year last week so I wanted to share the ones that really stood out, for various reasons. 📚 Ask again, yes. Intimate family drama spanning decades so thought provoking. 📚 Do not become alarmed. Two families of a cruise, the kids go missing on a day trip and we see the story from their side & the parents. Shocking and captivating. 📚 We are not like them. Two friends, one white, one black and a police shooting. Lots of exploring friendship dynamics 📚People Person - 5 half siblings are brought together by a dramatic event and become a dysfunctional family, of sorts 📚 Notes on an execution - the life story of a serial killer awaiting his death sentence as told by the various women in his life. 📚

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Two weeks till #TheBigFeastival!

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ScrapbookBlog.co.uk - est 2011. Nothing about real scrapbooks, instead it’s a virtual scrapbook of our lives. You'll find all sorts of things on the blog and our vlogs covering where we go, what we love and lots more in between. We’re a family of four and live on the south coast, in Worthing.

We share our days out, travels and other things we get up to, along with a few reviews. You can also find me: www.instagram.com/scrapbook.lives www.youtube.com/user/lozkp www.twitter.com/scrapbooklives

email: [email protected] I also offer social media management and copy-writing on a freelance basis.