January is not my favourite month of the year. Dark, wet and cold days, none of the pretty lights of December and so little in the diary. This week was typical January and so little to write about.

I miss my pretty Christmas lights and every January I try to fill the house with flowers to brighten the house. Tulips are my favourite flowers and coupled with my funky new vase, it’s a perfect pop of colour on my bureau. My classroom looks bare too so I’ve been popping £1 bunches of daffodils around the room, a perfect little pick me up.

On the classroom theme, I was interested in the neurodivergent Barbie released last week. Whilst there has been a mixed reaction, personally I love to see a doll with a communication aid, twiddles etc.. Representation matters.

After last week’s schedule was paused due to icy weather and football, this week I was able to start my half marathon training properly. I’ve added a new speed session which I did for the first time and wow whilst it was a much shorter run than normal at just over 20 minutes it was tough. My long run was lovely and social as by chance, I bumped into friends I hadn’t seen for ages en route and it would have been rude not to stop and have a quick chat.

This week I got my new nails done and it’s one of my favourite colours ever and so not my usual. I did fancy something different and the deep maroon, brown, grey colour is stunning.

Whilst I had considered doing a fortnightly catch up because of the lack of content, I also wanted to highlight that some weeks are ordinary in nature and that’s okay.