So May and June have been busy. Really busy. If you follow me on Instagram, you'll have noticed a few trips back and forth to Edinburgh and that's because I've got myself a graduate job! I'm very excited to be staying in Scotland but understandably things have been a little hectic trying to get organised and "officially" move myself out from London. 

A trip to Birmingham to pick my brother up from his first year at uni almost felt like a holiday. Yes, I was buried up to my head in bags and clothes and textbooks sitting in the back seat but as a reward for managing to get the boot shut, we went to the Botanical Gardens.

Although it was cloudy and spat with rain a bit, it was still warm. We explored a good portion of the grounds, which reminded me of a scaled down Kew Gardens. There's actually a lot of horticulture packed into a comparatively small area and a nice (albeit expensive) tea room.

Plants aren't particularly a passion of mine (perhaps that will change when I have a garden of my own) but I really appreciated the herb and health garden and the historical gardens, built to reflect the styles from Roman, Medieval and Tudor times. 

The birdhouse was a pleasant surprise too! 

Truthfully though, this trip was an excuse to brush the dust off my macro lens and get some pretty photos of plants...

I'm lucky enough to be part of a large family spread across a lot of the world. My dad's parents had six kids and their eldest had six kids. As you might imagine, this results in a fair few get-togethers and my trip to Athy in County Kildare last weekend meant this is the third year in a row we've had an Irish wedding!