Summary – April to June 2024

Beginning of this year I did a summary of what happened for us last year and I was mentioning as well some of my wishes for 2024. So I thought I will try to do a similar posts every three months to summarise what happened in our life. So this blog post is a summary of what happened in my life from April to June 2024.

Read the 2023 summary post here. Read January to March 2024 summary here.

Visiting Cliveden

Personal Life:

Unfortunately March and April haven’t been good months for us. I lost my granddad mid-March and Matt lost his during the Easter bank holiday weekend. We also lost a dear friend end of April. These three losses in that short period of time were hard.

On a brighter note, Marcus is now walking (even trying to run) and I have been promoted in June to a more senior role. Matt has finally fully recovered from his ankle micro-fracture that he did while playing football last December.

We have also received some members of our family and friends from France which helped us feeling a bit better. We have taken these opportunities to revisit some of the places we like in Cumbria and to discover new ones with them.

Rhododendrons trees at Muncaster

Walking:

We have done some nice walks in the past three months some of which are already on the blog and others that I need to write. We also walked around Buttermere lake with Matt’s sister, nephews and brother in law, which is one of our favourite walk when we have guests. We did several Sunday morning walks either by ourselves or with our neighbours around Loweswater lake and Ennerdale lake. The new walks I need to write are: one around Sale Fell, one around Ravenglass and one using Keswick old railway line.

Visiting Windsor

Travelling:

We have spent a week around Easter bank holidays near Windsor as Matt’s needed to go to the french embassy to renew his passport. The area was nice but definitely too busy for us. I have finished to write all my blog posts about our holiday there. You can find the list below.

We have also used the two bank holiday weekends in May to do more home exchanges. We had a exchange near York during the first bank holiday weekend and near St Andrews during the second bank holiday weekend. I will soon write everything about these little adventures.

Read about our experience home exchanging here

We stayed home in June and had some nice BBQs at several friends and neighbours.

Bluebells at Muncaster

Blogging:

I have been a bit slow at writing my blog posts for the past three months. This is common for me during spring and summer months as we spent more time outdoors exploring so less time writing. Hopefully I will catch-up soon or you will read all about our summer walks this winter 😉. 

In addition I am still working on updating my blog to have a consistent formatting between all the blog posts and I am slowly writing all my walks in French and English on the Visorando website so you can easily download GPX files and PDF to do the walks. I am aiming to finish this by end of 2024.

See my Visorando profile here.

Visiting Magna Carta

Books and TV:

As the beginning of the year, this spring I have been mainly listening to audiobooks. I have managed to listen to six books some great some less. Here the list in reading order.

Winkworth arboretum
Winkworth arboretum

Blog discoveries:

Finally I am sharing some great blog posts written by fellow bloggers in the past three months.

Let’s see what Summer will bring !!!

Windsor Castle

Find all our adventures in UK here

41 thoughts on “Summary – April to June 2024

  1. I’m so sorry for your losses, that’s an awful lot in such a short time 😦 On a lighter note, I look forward to your upcoming summer blogs! 🙂

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  2. What a lovely family you have Melodie 🙂 Please write more about home exchanges, it sounds like a great idea for those who can’t Airbnb their own places (I can’t!).

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  3. I still have to get to Ennerdale. I want to visit as it is one of the more remote waters and is usually away from the throng of people at Windermere and Keswick (not that they are bad places at all, just heavy touristy). Thank you for updating on your travels.

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  4. Toutes mes condoléances pour vos pertes, ce n’est jamais facile et encore moins quand on est à l’étranger 😥. Bravo pour ta promotion au travail et j’ai hâte de lire les articles sur votre séjour dans le Yorkshire que j’espère découvrir prochainement 😊

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  5. I am sorry to read about your loved ones and friend who recently passed away. When a baby first starts walking, it starts to get busy for the mum (beautiful photo of the three of you and your dog). I can’t wait for our summer to have decent BBQs again! And I’m glad you enjoyed the diving with us on the North Coast – these are great memories for us! Oh yes, and your photo of the bluebells is beautiful!

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  6. I’m so sorry for all your losses, Mélodie. I’m sure it has been a difficult time, but you have also been busy as well. Sometimes keeping busy is a good thing to do while grieving. I love when people share not only the good times and the adventures but the hard times as well. May you find many blessings in the months ahead.

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  7. So many beautiful spring photos, especially the ones with the colourful spring blooms. I am so sorry to hear about all the losses – the grief process for multiple losses, is inevitably more complex than grief for just one loss. Its intensity can be greater, and it is likely to take more time to work through it. I hope that travelling and being in nature helps to slowly heal the wounds. Thanks for sharing, and have a good day 🙂 Aiva xx

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