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 […]
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 […]
2021 Word of the Year Revisited
2021 Word of The Year – Health I can clearly remember when I created my Word of the Year for 2021. We had just been through the year of hell, due to the pandemic, and I think most people were hopeful that Covid was over and 2022 would be a year of us getting back […]
Revisiting 101 Things in 1001 days
Recently, I read a post on The Annoyed Thyroid blog, that piqued my interest. Sammie had written about the 10 Things that make her happy. This reminded me of my post, written in 2017, titled 101 Things in 1001 Days. At the time, this topic was doing the rounds a bit with bloggers, and […]
November Book Corner
Devotion by Hannah Kent was released about three weeks ago. I had been waiting impatiently all year for its release, so made a special trip into town, to pick up a copy. I have this thing, where I can’t go into a book shop and come out with just one book. Without fail, I always […]
Grey Hair – Do You Care?
I’ve dyed my hair for my entire adult life, including most of my teens. My first colour was blonde tips, done by my cousin when she was an apprentice hairdresser. For ever and after, from that day, I continued to dye my hair, mostly staying with blonde, except for a horror stage of plum red […]
Looking Back At October 2021
Spring For me, spring is all about the irises. They started flowering, almost from the first day of spring, and are still blooming. The big lockdown project of 2020 was to make new iris beds, so, many of my irises have only been planted recently. There are 69 different colours of iris in the garden, […]
Advice To My Younger Self
The Younger Me As I’m getting older, I find my mind mulling over the past, from time to time, and thinking about how my life has turned out. I’m fairly sure that there is not one aspect of my life today ,that is as I thought it would be, when I was 21. […]