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A year into using The Essential Planner and on the cusp of a New Year, I thought it might be fun to share how I’ve used my planner this year. At the heart of The Essential Planner is a a weekly double paged spread with a blank list on one side and a blank page on the other. This was the page I was really yearning for when I created the planner. So from the outset it’s pretty clear I don’t use my planner for diary management. In fact, I try to avoid the need for ‘diary management’ at all....

When I created The Essential Planner last October, it was really a grand experiment. Could I make the planner I had always wanted but never found? Could a planner that gave you a place to note down your really essential tasks but didn’t ask you to do anything extra really work? Could I really just do way less than I thought I had to? So I made it and in 2018 I discovered it worked; exactly as I had hoped. This past year, with the help of my planner I have done so much less but still managed to achieve...

I met Jules of Maple and Macaron last May at the Hunters and Heel Instameet. Although I’d followed Jules on Instagram for a while, we’d never met in real life so it was a real treat to meet her and get to see her wonderfully warm smile in person. Jules lives with her husband and two little boys in Cannes and runs the photography and styling company Can Can Content. Seeing Jules’s stunning photos always makes me want to pack my bags and move to the South of France. Her perspective on simplicity is really inspired by French living and...

Today I’m so happy to be sharing an interview I did with my gorgeous friend Hannah. Hannah’s instagram account is hands down one of my favourites to follow. Hannah shares her family life through the squares of Instagram and her beautiful blog. Her photography is stunning; muted, light and dreamy. Hannah shares, with inspiring honesty, her real experience of life as Mummy to Oscar and Wilf - who are both scrumptious (see above). I asked Hannah if I could interview her for this series because her home and style are gorgeous in their simplicity, but also knew she shared my...