Solved it!

On my homepage template I call a partial view, within that partial I then search for all contents of my site with a document type 'ArticulateRichText', this pulled everything I needed and then I sorted it by date. Bingo!

Hope this helps others.

@inherits UmbracoTemplatePage


    @{
        var blogNodes = @Model.Content.AncestorOrSelf(1).Descendants("ArticulateRichText").OrderBy("publishedDate desc").Take(5);
    }



@foreach (var blogNode in blogNodes)
{


    var blogTitle = @blogNode.Name;


    <div class="row">
        <div class="col-md-6">
    <a href="@blogNode.Url">@blogTitle</a><br />
    @(blogNode.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("publishedDate").ToString("dd/MM/yyyy"))<br />
    <p>@blogNode.GetPropertyValue("excerpt")
            </p>

            <br />
    @blogNode.GetPropertyValue("author")
     </div>
            <div class="col-md-6">
        @if (blogNode.GetPropertyValue("featuredImage") != null)
                    {
                        var imageId = blogNode.GetPropertyValue("featuredImage");
                        var altText = blogNode.GetPropertyValue("alternativeImageText");
                        <a href="@blogNode.Url">    <img src="@Umbraco.Media(imageId).Url" alt="@altText" class="img-thumbnail centerImage" width="150px" /></a>
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        <a href="@blogNode.Url">     <img src="@Umbraco.Media(1925).Url" alt="New blog post" class="img-thumbnail" width="150px" /></a>
                    }
    </div>

     </div>            
}