Do you have any phobias? In my world, there are phobias and then there are phobias. I’m sure many people have their phobias that show up in every day life without impacting that life. I do have a couple of minor phobias. There is my phobia about heights. I can handle that as long as […]
What Is Happiness?
In my post last week, I announced that my Word of the Year (WOTY) was happiness, and the reasons for choosing that particular word. You can read about it here if you’d like. I’ve been thinking about the things that bring me happiness, and I thought that first, perhaps we should look at the meaning […]
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52 Book Club Reading Challenge
2022 Reading Goals Each year, I set a reading goal on Goodreads for the number of books I plan to read in the year. In 2021 my goal was 75 books, and I was very happy at the end of the year, to find that I’d read 88 books. This year, I’m, aiming a bit […]
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Word of the Year 2022 #WOTY
Goodbye 2021 It was a huge relief to wave goodbye to 2021, even though I’m not hugely confident that the coming year will be much better than the last. Covid cases are going crazy all over the country, and it looks like ‘living with Covid’ will be different to what we imagined, when we were […]
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2021: My Year In Books
On New Years Eve, in 2020, I set my Goodreads reading challenge for 2021 at 75 books. I read 88 for the year, so am happy to have reached my goal, and read 13 books more than I had expected. Star Ratings The star ratings I give to books that I’ve read are based only […]
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
I We had our family Christmas celebrations over the weekend at Myrtleford, a three hour drive from home, at the base of the Victorian Alps. It was so good to get together, after not being able to do so all year, due to the pandemic. I wasn’t able to go to our Christmas weekend last […]
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Christmas Book Corner #whatsonyourbookshelf
I decided to read Christmas books only in December. That was the plan, but after I’d read five, I’d had enough, even though I did enjoy them. The books that I chose were great, but I was hanging out to read about something other than Christmas. At work, we have the same Christmas Carols […]
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Christmas Memories…and more. #festivebonbons
Big thanks to bloggers, Jo Donna, Sue and Deb for hosting a special one-off seasonal link-up called Festive Bonbons. I couldn’t resist joining them in posting about my experience of Christmas over the years. Christmas today is very quiet here as we usually have our family catch ups on the weekend before Christmas. I love […]
