Now the dust has settled (on my birthday, not the madness that has come since), I thought I would write a little gratitude post.

I was very lucky to be able to go away for a long weekend with 17 of my best friends, and family, from all over the world. Well England, South Africa and Ireland, but we will go with it. We booked an Airbnb in Braintree, which ended up being this beautiful pink house that was right up my street – turned out absolutely perfectly.

I wont bore you with a day-by-day run down, but there was lots of giggles, dancing, drinking and fun. I felt so lucky to have all these wonderful people around me. Especially my girls who had arranged many surprises, including a full wall off balloons, for me.

it was such a good weekend and it was so nice to have friends from school, university, London and my family mixing together. A situation you rarely are in.

It feels such a world away from where we are now, but i am so glad we were able to all get together before COVID-19 really hit the UK and we are all in isolation.

Never take for granted those around you. Use this time in isolation wisely and check up on your friends and family, especially the strong sociable ones and they are the ones who might be finding this the hardest.

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