Author Dawn White

We’ve turned the first calendar page. We did it! We survived January! The longest, darkest, poorest and hungriest month of the year! Hurray! Hopefully your new years have all been happy so far? (Loved this poem by Mums’ Army.) I’ve never been all that great at resolutions if I’m honest. In fact this post by […]

Fond Festive Memories Another Christmas present has become a Christmas past, and so I’ll begin my round-up with an enchanting tale: A ‘Mum Muddling Through’ Christmas Carol.  It feels like five minutes since we were Putting up the Decs (Mums’ Army), but somehow we’re here in 2018 with another festive season under our belt. I […]

Dear Santa… It’s time to dig out those glitter pens once again. Christmas is twinkling just around the corner, so this month I’m bringing you a Christmas round-up with all the trimmings! Early December is my very favourite time of year.  Probably more than the big day itself!  I love the anticipation, the excitement, and […]

With a pinch of pumpkin spice… October has passed in a blur of pumpkins, conkers, woolly hats and welly boots. We have celebrated our very first half term for our eldest as she started “Big School” this year. Along with the obligatory Harvest Festival we have enjoyed getting to grips with all of the new […]

Bringing in the ’ember months and a new school year. The ’ember months are in full swing and summer is now just a hazy memory. The lazy days of the school holidays have passed by in a blur, and for some of us it has felt like The Last Summer (The Parent Poet).   Those of […]

Time Flies Summer. Sunny blue-sky days and balmy nights. ‘Chilled mornings, fun afternoons. Awesome days at the beach. Doing what we feel like, not what we have to’ (Mum Turned Mom). A time for ‘reading for pleasure, creating art just for the sake of creating art, and beachcombing for sea glass, pebbles and shells'(Marija Smits). […]

The School Doors Are Closed For Summer. This of course opens a whole new world of opportunity for those of us with children.  No longer a slave to the school drop-off routine. It’s time for us to pop on the kettle, (and where work allows) to forget the time and let the weather set our […]

Summer has finally arrived! If I’m honest it is currently throwing it down as I type this, but I refuse to be swayed. It is summer.  I know this because I have actual tan / sunburn lines from being busy applying sun-cream to small humans and forgetting myself. Congratulations is in order. As I’m sure […]

Welcome to the Poetry & Prose round-up for May.  Spring is finally in full bloom and summer is peeking around the corner at us.  I adore this time of year and can’t get enough walks in the countryside and visits to farms.  New life seems to be blossoming all around us and for me Easter […]

March is here at last! We can finally shake off the frosty dark nights and welcome in springtime.  What better way for me to welcome in the warmer times than with my first poetry and prose round-up post!?  I am stepping into the shoes of the lovely Maddy at Writing Bubble as she embarks on new […]