Is it possible to be dead and alive at the same time?     This is the question I find myself asking myself (because we’re all totally guilty of talking to ourselves amirite?) as I lay in the bath soaking away the stress of a weeks worth of 2am bedtimes, and as I lay there […]

We don’t take advantage of you as much as the internet says we do but you are our handbag-holding, angle-finding photo-taking saviours. You’re more than an assistant but do way less work than a business partner. You listen to us talk about flat lays, SEO, WordPress themes, helpful plugins and ERMAGEEEEHD SO AND SO JUST LEFT […]

Perception is a funny thing. If you’re new here you may have missed this post which I wrote back when it wasn’t minus ridiculous degrees. If you don’t have time to read it, it was a personal post I wrote about being vulnerable, growing up and the emotions which accompany both and I honestly didn’t expect […]

Words can heal, words can inspire, words can defend, and words can unite. But when the words you are hearing are; “You alright there fried eggs” “You’d look so pretty if you didn’t have that wonky tooth” “Wheyyy, check out those thunder thighs” Words can hurt. Words hurt so much more than people realise, and […]

If I had a pound for every time somebody asked me when I was going to have children, I’d have enough money to settle the lawsuits which came from stitching their mouths shut. It’s a funny old question isn’t it? One that seems harmless enough yet is such a personal pry into somebody’s life. I […]

Growing up is difficult, because it’s so easy to let other people dictate who you are.     Growing up I was always told that I was “too” much. I was “too loud”, “too muscly”, “too opinionated”, ‘too confident”. Basically I was “too” anything if I had a characteristic that another person didn’t like, and for an […]

If you told me three years ago that I’d be able to sit here and say “HEY YOU GUYS TODAY IS MY THREE YEAR BLOGGIVERSARY!” I’d tell you you were mad and then laugh you out of the room because everybody who knew me knows that my interests used to change quicker than the English weather. Yet […]

As I was driving to work today, all happy, singing along to my favourite tunes on the radio, I realised that it’s so easy to get consumed by all of the negativity in the world (for example people whom drive 20mph in a 50 *SMH*) and negativity is shared so often that sometimes it can be […]

Everything goes through a cycle of life; relationships, humans and jobs. And a natural stage of the cycle of life is the end. If you’re a regular reader of Toothbrush Travels you may remember that in this post I mentioned that I handed in my resignation at work, and on the 26th of February I walked out […]

It’s incredibly hard to trust yourself.     So often your instinct will tell you something far before it actually turns into a reality, yet so many of us struggle to listen to ourselves and trust that what our instinct is saying is a direct correlation of what we are feeling. So often we wait for physical confirmation of […]

When I woke up this morning I planned to write a post about our winter escape. I planned to write about the purity of snow. I planned to write about ice-caves and skiing and the crunch that accompanies each snowy footstep. But then I went to work. And I had a manic (and not in […]

Last month I promised an announcement on my birthday. As you can probably tell… I’m not the most punctual person when it comes to my blog, because my birthday was on the 27th and that date has been and gone and there has been no declaration of exciting news, and for that darling blog readers, […]