A Perfectico Storm

There's a really well known (and super useful) blog called Two Weeks in Costa Rica. I think they called it that because they originally came on holiday for a fortnight (and then they kept coming back and eventually birthed a child or two here). I thought it would be good to tell you about some of the things we did in our first two weeks in Costa Rica: Day One : We are HERE! The sun is shining in San José!! When we drove down to Heathrow there was horizontal rain, terrible wind and it was cold, cold in your bones cold. We pick up our ridiculous hire car and drive ten minutes to a hotel. There is a pool. We drink cocktails. There are butterflies and dragonflies, we see a parrot in a tree. It's 27 degrees C. We've been travelling for 37 hours. We pass out. Day Two : We have amazing, delicious breakfast. It is fried banana, rice and beans, fresh pineapple, papaya and watermelon. Why have I never had this before? We swim, we eat crisps made out of bananas. I get the impres...

It is April 15th 2019. We are in London. It has been a gorgeous day and we've been occupying with XR in Parliament Square. Tom's sister Amaya is babysitting for Iris and we've just been to see a Huguenot House courtesy of my friend from school Sarah. We're sitting in a bar somewhere near Spitalfields with Simon -one of our best men from our wedding, and a uni friend of Tom's. Tom is waiting to hear back from a civil service job he had an interview for. He has been 10 years at Hallam Uni and he's ready for a change. There's a lot of upheaval and he's not sure about the direction things are going in. We've also been talking about going abroad for maybe 6 months or a year before Iris starts school - she's due to start in September 2020. It feels like a long way away and too soon. We're spit-balling. If we went away, we'd want to go somewhere Spanish speaking and hot. We haven't got much further than that. The bar man comes over and o...