Weekly Roundup Monday 5TH Jan – Sunday 11th Jan

| Suzi Tench

MONDAY 5TH JAN

I worked from 8:00am – 12:00pm. I’ve been feeling really tired since Christmas and have had niggling cold symptoms that have not amounted to much but have been quite annoying (runny/blocked nose, sore throat, aches), and I think that is what has been making me feel tired. Once I got in from work, I headed to bed and slept from 1:30pm to 3:00pm. I still wasn’t feeling great, so I had a bath once I’d woken up, which helped a little bit. Once Shane came home from work, we made a roast dinner with a Quorn Roast, roast potatoes, roast parsnips and carrots, broccoli and gravy.

TUESDAY 6TH JAN

I had the day off from work and planned to do some blog work. Shane left for work around 8:30am, and I played Animal Crossing for a bit while watching Below Deck. I then started working on some blog ideas and set up a blog calendar for 2026. I’m still feeling a bit tired, so I had a nap from 1:45pm – 4:25pm. We had decided earlier in the week, as part of our meal plan, to have shepherd’s pie for tea, so I started to make that once I was awake. We had that for tea with peas and an espresso martini afterwards.

WEDNESDAY 7TH JAN

We woke up at 7:45am and had coffee before Shane headed off to work for the day. I played Animal Crossing before getting ready for work. Snow has been forecast between 12:00pm today and 12:00pm tomorrow, so work was manic with people panic-buying everything both in the shop and through our online services. I was shattered when I got home from work, so Shane and I had fish and chips for tea from the local takeaway.

THURSDAY 8TH JAN

We woke up around 7:10 am and had coffee and cigarettes. There hadn’t been any snow, but it had been really cold in the night, and everything was frosty when we woke up, so Shane scraped the ice off his car and headed off for the day around 8:00am. We needed some things for decorating the dining area, so I placed an order with B&Q, including wallpaper, paint, brackets and a wallpaper hanging kit. I spent some more time on my blog calendar and did some laundry and other housework before heading to work for a 5:00pm to 10:00pm shift. Because snow was still forecast, people were still panic-buying, and the shop had been stripped bare of essentials by 7:00pm!

FRIDAY 9TH JAN

We got up at 6:40am and got ready for our work days. I worked an 8:00am – 2:00pm shift. I am still feeling ill and tired, so we had a nap when I got in from work for a couple of hours. The brackets that I had ordered from B&Q arrived, and I had a notification that the paint I had ordered for the kitchen was ready for collection, so we headed to B&Q to collect that. When we got home, Shane filled some holes, and we prepped the kitchen by washing the walls down with sugar soap, ready for tomorrow. We then sat and did some bullet journaling before heading to bed.

SATURDAY 10TH JAN

We were both off from work today, so we had a lie-in and didn’t get up until 11:20am! After a lazy morning, I booked myself in for a dreadlock maintenance and detox session with Threadloxx. The wallpaper I’d ordered was delivered from I Love Wallpaper, so I can start that tomorrow. We painted the kitchen, and Shane put up the brackets that had come yesterday. We did some more bullet journaling and watched Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire in the evening.

SUNDAY 11TH JAN

We got up at a more respectable time of 9:45am today, though I still feel a bit tired and ill. Some more of my B&Q order was due to arrive between 10am and 12pm, so we didn’t want to miss that by lazing around in bed! The items got delivered at 11:00am, so Shane did another coat of paint on the kitchen walls while I painted the skirting boards and trunking in the dining area. Once the paint was dry, Shane helped me to hang the wallpaper on the back wall in the dining area. We had salmon fillets, new potatoes, mixed veg and parsley sauce for tea and watched some Taskmaster before heading to bed.

Weekly Roundup Monday 29TH Dec – Sunday 4TH Jan

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MONDAY 29TH DECEMBER

We made a start on decorating the dining area after we had prepped the day before. Shane patched some holes in the wall that I want to hang wallpaper on and finished the repair to the wall by the window. The kitchen door is stepped back from the wall in the dining area, and there is a recessed area above the kitchen door that I decided I’d like wallpapered and a shelf put there. I hung the wallpaper after Shane had done the cutting in with matte white paint. Once that was done, we made a start on painting the walls with matt white paint.

TUESDAY 30TH DECEMBER

After we got up we measured and cut a piece of wood to create a shelf. Shane then put the shelf up in an alcove by the chimney breast in the living area, which we are turning into a mini bar area! We then headed to the spare room and spent some time sorting out things in there. We tidied up and put some stuff into the attic. We then removed all the staples in the laminate that had been securing the carpet that I had removed in December. In the afternoon, we popped around to see my neighbour Heather to exchange Christmas gifts, have a coffee and catch up.

WEDNESDAY 31ST DECEMBER

I worked 4:00pm – 8:00pm. Before I went to work, we did some decorating in the dining area while listening to My Dad Wrote a Porno. Shane filled in some more holes in the wall and painted the rest of the walls with matt white paint. I painted the arched alcove backs in green (Wickes Walls and Ceiling No 835 Optimism) and the sides in a matt black (Dulux Walls and Ceilings Rich Black), and painted the rest of the area with the first coat of Brilliant White.
After work I came home and had a quick outfit change before we headed out to a local pub for New Year’s Eve Celebrations! We watched a band play and welcomed in the New Year with a couple of friends before heading home at 12:15am!

THURSDAY 1ST JANUARY 2026!!!!!

Work 4:00pm – 8:00pm. We had smoked salmon and scrambled eggs on toast for breakfast. I then did a second coat of green on the back wall of the arches in the dining area before I went to work for a 4:00pm – 8:00pm shift. When I came home, we vinyl wrapped the back window sill in a black granite effect vinyl. We had veg stew that I had made with our leftover Christmas Veg for tea after we had finished wrapping the window sill.

FRIDAY 2ND JANUARY

I had an 8:00am – 12:00pm shift at work, and Shane was back at work after the Christmas break, so we got up together and did our usual morning routine of coffee and a cigarette before we started our work days. There was a yellow warning for snow, and we had all of 10 mins of snow, nothing stuck! When I got home, I felt really tired, so once Shane had finished work, we had a nap from 1:00pm to 4:20pm. I made us a salad with tuna mayo for tea. After food, we did some bullet journaling in the evening before heading to bed.

SATURDAY 3RD JANUARY

Shane was in Bristol for a gaming tournament today and left pretty early in the morning. I caught up on Below Deck and played Animal Crossing. I had work between 6:00pm and 10:00pm. I was still pretty tired, so Roxy and I headed to bed for a nap between 11:15am and 1:40pm. After my nap, I made myself sardines and cheese on toast before getting myself ready for my shift. Shane came home while I was at work and prepared us a curry for tea, which we had after I got back in from work.

SUNDAY 4TH JANUARY

I had a day off from work and once we had woken up we had smoked salmon and cream cheese bagels for breakfast. We spent some time cleaning and tidying up our decorating stuff before we made a start on more decorating! Shane measured, cut and fitted the shelf that I wanted to go above the kitchen door and once we knew it fitted I then painted it Seaside Nautilus. In the evening we did some more bullet journalling before having cheese, crackers and wine for tea.

Weekly Roundup Monday 22nd Dec – Sunday 28th Dec

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MONDAY 22ND DECEMBER

I had the day off from work today, so I did some laundry and other housework in preparation for Christmas! I wrapped the presents I’d bought Shane and put them under the tree. When Shane came home from work in the evening, we went to pick Roxy up from my best friend’s house. He had looked after her for the weekend while we were away in Cornwall. After we returned with doggo, we made shortbread for Shane’s Mum and Dad and packaged that up along with the rest of their hamper.

TUESDAY 23RD DECEMBER

I worked a 1:30pm – 5:30pm shift. After I had finished, I came home and got changed before heading out with Shane. We visited Shane’s Mum and Dad to drop off their Christmas Hamper. We had a cider with them and spent time chatting with them and Shane’s sister. After we left them, we headed to Asda to pick up some veg and other bits we needed for over Christmas. We decided to have takeaway pizza for tea after we got home.

WEDNESDAY 24TH DECEMBER – CHRISTMAS EVE!!!!!

We started our Christmas Day food prep by making our Christmas Day desserts! We are having Chocolate trifle for dessert and prepared them for tomorrow. We soaked sponge fingers in Tia Maria Cold Brew Coffee Liquer and placed them into glasses, added some custard and made vegan chocolate mousse that we placed on top! We had a nap in the afternoon from 4:20pm to 6:25pm, then spent the evening watching Christmas Films on TV and playing Animal Crossing.

THURSDAY 25TH DECEMBER

We woke around 9:00am and got up. We made proper coffe then settled down to open our Christmas Gifts. We had Smoked Salmon and Cream Cheese Bagels for Breakfast (around 11am), and Bucks Fizz, then started to prepare our Christmas Day dinner! We sat down to eat around 4pm when we had our starter of Prawn Cocktail followed by salmon and all the veg for our main course. We decided to have a brief interlude between our mains and dessert and let Roxy have her Christmas Dinner while we let our food go down! Later we had our dessert, watched Home Alone, Home Alone 2 and a couple of drinks including a Baileys cocktail that I made! (Baileys, vodka, kalhua, milk and whipped cream).

FRIDAY 26TH DECEMBER

I worked a 1:00pm – 5:00pm shift. We didn’t do anything in the morning as we didn’t get up til gone 11:00am! After work, we had a lazy evening in and watched TV and chatted while having a couple of beers.

SATURDAY 27TH DECEMBER

I worked an 8:00am – 12:00pm shift. Once I had finished work, we had a nap from 1:20pm – 3:20pm. We got up and, after coffee, started to get ready for a night out! We went to a Retro Games night in the Tap Room in Usk, where we played Sonic the Hedgehog (the first one), Road Rash (the first one) and Quackshot. We had a really lovely time, and it was nice to replay some of my favourite games from childhood!

SUNDAY 28TH DECEMBER

I had a massive sleep and managed 10 hours and 25 minutes before waking at 10:10am. Once we were awake and suitably caffeinated, we headed to B&Q to get some materials for repairing walls in the dining area. We spent some time cleaning the walls in preparation for decorating, including heat-gunning the back wall to remove adhesive from it. In the evening, we headed to one of our neighbours’ houses as they were having Neighbour Drinks with other neighbours of ours. We had a fun night and met some people from our street that we didn’t know while having drinks and chatting!

A recipe for…

| Suzi Tench

This is one of the easiest and tastiest recipes I have made. The mousse is light and airy, while the dark chocolate makes this dessert rich and moreish AND there are only 3 ingredients involved in the making of this mousse!

This mousse uses the water that tinned chickpeas come in and is used as an egg substitute in many vegan dishes. It doens’t sound like a very appealing thing to use until you know a bit about what it does/doesn’t contain. It is rich in proteins, minerals and carbohydrates, and is low in sodium, sugar-free, low in calories, free from cholesterol, gluten and trans fats, so it is perfect for many dietary requirements.

Ingredients

1x 400g tin of chickpeas

2x 100g bar of dark chocolate (I use 85% cocoa chocolate)

100g caster sugar

Method

Firstly, open and drain the aquafaba (chickpea water) into a bowl. You can keep the chickpeas and use them in other recipes.

Start whisking the aquafaba with an electric whisk. It can take a while (sometimes up to 10 minutes) for the aquafaba to create stiff white, merangue-like peaks, so be patient. It is worth noting that, unlike egg whites, aquafaba can’t be over-whisked, so don’t worry too much about how long it is whisked for.

Once stiff peaks have formed from the aquafaba, add in the caster sugar slowly whilst still whisking. Once all the sugar has been added, put it to one side.

The next step is to melt the chocolate. You will need a saucepan and another bowl. Fill the saucepan with about 1/3 water and place the bowl into it so that it floats in the water and place the pan on the hob.

Break up your chocolate into small pieces and add it to the bowl in the saucepan. As the water heats, the chocolate will start to melt. Use a spatula to stir the chocolate, ensuring that all of it has reached a liquid consistency.

Once melted, start whisking your aquafaba and add small amounts of the liquid chocolate to the aquafaba. The chocolate must be added slowly so that the air whisked into the aquafaba stays. Adding the chocolate too quickly will reduce the volume of the aquafaba, and the air will be lost.

Once the chocolate and aquafaba have been combined, spoon the mixture, gently, into small remekin dishes or small bowls. Gently tap the ramekins/bowls onto a hard surface to flatten out the mixture. Place in the fridge to set for around half an hour.

Once chilled and ready to serve, add a couple of fresh raspberries and mint leaves, sprinkle with cocoa powder or enjoy as it is.

2026 – My Plans

| Suzi Tench

It’s the New Year, and that means looking forward, making plans and setting goals. It is time to reflect on the past year and move forward into the new. I love the tradition of choosing a word for the year, and this year I’ve chosen “Rebirth” as my word of the year. After the awful start of 2025 and all that happened in the first 6 months, I am finally coming through the other side of it all, rediscovering myself and the things I enjoy, building new relationships, strengthening the ones I have, becoming myself again, and I feel that this word really sums up this journey into 2026.

A New Year is also the time to set goals and make plans for the year, and, as is tradition, I have set myself some goals and plans for the year ahead!

BLOGGING

  • More posts – aim for 3 to 4 posts a week
  • Range of posts – recipes, reviews, “On The Blog”, plans, places etc
  • More content on other platforms- Share photos to Instagram / Facebook
  • Build my audience/followers

Career

  • Grow my businesses – Dragon Dreadz UK and Bite Nails UK by advertising on social media
  • Aim for 5 clients per week
  • Update my hairdressing qualification
  • Undertake Team Leader Training

HOBBIES

  • Scrapbooking – at least once per month
  • Card Making – at least 2 times per month
  • Jewellery Making – at least 2 times per month
  • New hobbies – Try a new craft a month

TRAVEL

  • Festivals
  • Camping
  • Visit my family
  • Day Trips (Hawkestone Brewery, Bristol, Cardiff, the beach)

PERSONAL

  • Start keeping a proper journal
  • Restart Mindfulness
  • Work on routines
  • Graphics

HOme and garden

  • Finish redecorating the dining area
  • Redecorate the spare room
  • Redecorate the bedroom
  • Set up the summerhouse as our Craft Cave

HEALTH

  • Book a blood test with the dr
  • Take vitamins
  • Cook from scratch/meal plan
  • Work on sleep

LIFESTYLE

  • Stop procrastinating
  • 3 monthly life review
  • Read more books
  • Schedule me-time

RELATIONSHIPS

  • Plan more Besties Date days/Nights
  • Plan dates with my boyfriend
  • Get better at replying to messages
  • Plan cute activities to do on days off

What are your plans and goals for 2026?

Weekly Roundup Monday 15th Dec – Sunday 21st Dec

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MONDAY 15TH DECEMBER

I had a shift at work in the afternoon and worked from 2:00pm to 6:30pm. Yesterday I placed an order with Hobbycraft online for some more crafting things we needed for collection, including some soap-making supplies. After I had finished work, I headed to my local Hobbycraft to collect it. One of my work friends had placed an order for a Christmas Gnome, which was nearly finished, so I put the finishing touches on him and wrapped him up safely to be delivered to her. Once my boyfriend finished working, we made some more Christmas Soaps, scenting them with sweet orange oil for our Christmas hampers.

TUESDAY 16TH DECEMBER

I worked a morning shift from 8:00am-2:00pm. After work, I popped up to see my best friend and had a cuppa and a chat. Shane had a Christmas party in the evening so I watched tv and treated myself to a McDonalds takeaway for tea! I had a McPlant meal that came with free Grinch Socks! I always get Roxy a burger

WEDNESDAY 17TH DECEMBER

I worked 12:00pm – 6:00pm. I’d been feeling really tired all day so when I came home my boyfriend and I had a nap in the evening (from 7:40pm – 9:35pm!). When we woke we decided to do some more Christmas crafting and finished the candles and gnomes for the Christmas Hampers.

THURSDAY 18TH DECEMBER

I was off from work today and am off until the 23rd December. We are travelling to Cornwall tomorrow, so I spent some of the day packing. I also made some shortbread for the hampers and packed that up to take with us. I also did some cleaning and set up my nail station as I had 2 clients booked in for nails in the evening.

FRIDAY 19TH DECEMBER

We got up around 8:30am and packed the car. We dropped Roxy off at her “other Daddy’s” (my best friend), who was looking after her for us while we were away and set off on our journey to Cornwall. We planned to stop off at Jamaica Inn for some food on our way to Helston. We had planned to arrive there around 1:00pm, the perfect time for lunch and a break. The traffic wasn’t too bad on our way down until we hit Launceston, where the A30 had been closed due to a gas leak. We were diverted onto some small country lanes, and the traffic was really slow. We finally reached Jamaica Inn around 4:00pm. We decided to stop but not have food as we would be eating with Mum and Dad when we got to Helston and had a beer instead. We were back on our journey by 5pm. We got to the hotel in Helston at 6:30pm, where Mum and Dad collected us. We went for a drive around Helston, then headed to Porthleven for drinks in The Harbour Inn before going back to Mum and Dad’s house for some food.

SATURDAY 20TH DECEMBER

We woke up and got ready to go to my parents’ house. My Dad picked us up, and we headed to theirs around 10:30am. We had breakfast, then headed out for a drive after coffee. We headed to Trevaskis Farm, where we had a walk around and saw some piggies. Mum and Dad had booked us in for lunch at the restaurant there. I opted for a Prawn Salad, which was huge! It came with homemade rice salad, bean salad, potato salad, coleslaw, pasta salad and fresh green salad and the biggest helping of prawns in Marie Rose sauce! Shane had the Farmers Platter – equally big! We managed to save some space for dessert, though! I chose the Chocolate and Cherry Roulade, which was yummy, and Shane opted for the Baileys and Malteser Cheesecake! After food, Dad took us for a drive along the coast, where we stopped at a beach. We were planning on having a walk, but the weather had turned, and it had started to rain and was pretty cold. We all headed back to my parents’ house and had coffee before Shane and I went back to our hotel to pack up and get ready for our journey home the following day.

SUNDAY 21ST DECEMBER

We woke up around 9:15am, packed the car and travelled home from Cornwall. We had to stop on the way at a supermarket to buy some ingredients for a meal we had planned with my besties in the evening! We planned to make a pre-Christmas, Christmas dinner for them with all the trimmings. Once we had finished shopping and unpacked the car, we began cooking dinner and preparing the house for their arrival. We served mushroom and cheese tartlets as starters, roast salmon with all the vegetables (roast potatoes, cauliflower and broccoli cheese, roast parsnips, roast carrots, peas, and sprouts) for mains, and for dessert, a vegan chocolate mousse with raspberries and mint. I made a cocktail using vodka, black cherry rum, soda water, mint and blackberries. We had a lush evening and were very full and tired by the end of the evening!

Weekly Roundup Monday 8th Dec – Sunday 14th Dec

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MONDAY 8TH DECEMBER

I had the day off from work today, so I decided to take up the carpet from the stairs, landing and spare room as they were worn and old. The plan was to take up the carpet and see what the flooring was like underneath before we decorated. I was hoping that there were floorboards underneath that could be sanded and varnished. When I took up the carpets, I found that they had been laid on top of laminate flooring along the landing and spare room. It explains the fusty musty smell that I couldn’t get rid of in the house. The laminate underneath was peppered with staples that had been used to hold down the carpet underlay, and was covered in something sticky, so I decided to take that up on the landing. Underneath the laminate, I found the original floorboards. I would have taken up the laminate in the spare room as well, but after loading all the carpets and laminate into my car, I had no more space. I also made fish pie that we had for tea!

TUESDAY 9TH DECEMBER

I worked a 9:45am – 3:00pm shift. It’s starting to get really busy in the run-up to Christmas – lots of stock is arriving, shelves need to be stacked, and customers need to be served. My shift went really quickly. I had a nap after work as I was so tired. think I’d overstretched myself the day before.

WEDNESDAY 10TH DECEMBER

I worked a 7am – 11am shift today, then I came home and played Animal Crossing for a bit. We had decided to make some Christmas gifts, including hampers for our parents, and after making lists of items we needed, we headed to Hobbycraft to get the things we needed. We popped into Tesco to get some food shopping and some other craft bits that we couldn’t get in Hobbycraft, and after that, we headed to Wetherspoons for some dinner before coming home.

THURSDAY 11TH DECEMBER

I worked from 9:30am – 5:00pm. The shift was busy but good. We have been able to wear our Christmas jumpers since the 1st of December, and that, along with Christmas tunes being played on our store radio, is making me feel really festive. When I got home, we had a crafting evening, making cards, candles and shortbread to put into the gift hampers.

FRIDAY 12TH DECEMBER

I came down with a flu-like virus and had to have the day off from work. I spent much of the day playing Animal Crossing and watching TV between taking meds and napping.

SATURDAY 13TH DECEMBER

I still felt awful and had to take the day off from work again. I hate being ill. I spent the day snuggled on the sofa with Roxy, under the blankets not doing much.

SUNDAY 14TH DECEMBER

I started feeling better today, so we took my car to the local tip to get rid of the carpets and laminate that I’d taken up earlier in the week. After we had done that, we headed to Hobbycraft to pick up some more craft bits for our Christmas hampers. We picked up a soap crafting set, some felt to make hats and some empty crackers to fill. When we got home, we started to make soaps and hats for the crackers, along with some wine glass charms as gifts to put in the crackers.

Weekly Roundup Monday 1st Dec – sunday 7th dec

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MONDAY 1ST DECEMBER

I had the day off from work today, but was up early (around 7ish). I had a couple of parcels that needed to be posted, so I booked them in with DPD and dropped them off at my work, who are one of the delivery drop-off/collection points in my area. Once I had done that, I walked home and had a coffee before making a start on doing some cleaning and tidying in the house. I scrubbed and mopped the floors after vacuuming and cleaned the kitchen. I also did some admin work and changed my name on my banking app and on my work things. My boyfriend came home from work around 6ish, and we spent some time making some Christmas Snowflakes to hang in the windows. We had Butternut Squash & Sage Cappellacci with Italian Menu Tomato and Mascarpone Sauce with Ciabatta Garlic Bread, which we added some cheese to (proper yum!) and had that with cheesy veg that was left over from our Sunday Roast.

TUESDAY 2ND DECEMBER

I was off from work as I had an appointment to have an injection of steroids into my shoulder for an injury I sustained years ago when I moved into the house. I managed to rip my rotator cuff muscle and had an injection into it to stop the pain. That injection has slowly worn off, and the pain has been getting worse and worse, to the extent where I had trouble getting dressed, putting my hair up, and movement in general was painful. My boyfriend came with me to the doctor’s surgery where I had an injection of 80ml Cortisone into the top of my shoulder. It was quite painful but bearable and quick. I was told I couldn’t do any lifting or strenuous activity for a few days, as the injection needed time to take effect. I didn’t do much after my injection because of this, but I did play on my Switch on Animal Crossing and worked on some more blog ideas. We ventured out in the evening as we wanted to get some things for crafting, so we visited The Range near us and bought some bits and pieces that we needed.

WEDNESDAY 3RD DECEMBER

I worked in the morning, and my shift went quickly. I like working the morning shift as there is always a lot to do. We have a bread delivery first thing and needs to be worked. We rotate the stock with the newer being put at the back of the shelves, then I look at sweets, crisps and chocolate, tidying the shelves and re-stocking any items that are running low. I then look at the shelves that house our seasonal and promotional items, re-stocking and tidying as needed. Between this, I work the tills and serve customers. If there is time, I then look at our battery shelves and restock these. When I got home from work, I made my boyfriend (who was working from home) and myself hot chocolate with a double shot of espresso and squirty cream. In the night, we had a cute, stay-home date night and did some Christmas crafting, which was lush! We decided that we were going to make Christmas cards, so I taught him some techniques to use for card making including stamping using some Christmas Gnome rubber stamps that we had purchased from The Range.

THURSDAY 4TH DECEMBER

I had the day off from work. My shoulder was still a bit sore from the injection I’d had on Tuesday, so I didn’t do much but spent the day doing my nails, catching up on some tv shows and cooking. I made a vegetarian sausage ragout for us to have for tea with rice. I made the ragout in my Ninja Foodie that has a slow cooker function, so all I needed to do was prepare the vegetables and chuck all of the ingredients in and leave it to do its thing!

FRIDAY 5TH DECEMBER

The photos we had ordered last week for our scrapbook got delivered today. I’m really impressed with the quality of them! Can’t wait to start making our scrapbook memory pages with them! I had a shift in work from 6pm to 10pm. I didn’t do much in the day other than a bit of housework and pottering in the house before my shift. Once my shift was over, my boyfriend and I had some more sausage ragout, a couple of beers and watched some Christmas films before bed.

SATURDAY 6TH DECEMBER

I had a morning/afternoon shift starting at 10am and finishing at 3.30pm. Work was busy with online orders coming in thick and fast due to the rainy weather. I did nearly 10000 steps in my time working! After work, I came home and changed, then we headed out to the local town centre to visit a craft shop and Asda for some more craft stuff. We needed some bits to make some gnomes and some food shopping too. After we had hit the shops, we headed to the local Wetherspoons for a pint. It was busy and loud, but I managed to find us some seats outside. We only stayed for one drink, then headed home to make a start on our gnomes (I was super excited to start these!!!). We ordered Arthur Christmas on DVD as it’s one of my favourite Christmas films and wasn’t available to watch on any of the channels/streaming apps that we use, and I really wanted to watch it!

SUNDAY 7TH DECEMBER

I had the day off today, and after a lie-in (til nearly 10am!) we got up and had coffee. The weather was pretty bad, lots of rain and really cold too. We decided to stay in and have a craft day. We made the house all cosy and warm, stayed in our (matching) pyjamas and made a load of Christmas cards that we are going to write and send out to our friends and family. The DVD that we had ordered arrived and we settled down to watch it with some food – jacket potatoes with cheese and beans! We also watched Over the Hedge, and we started watching The Grinch. I had tired myself out by being so excited about crafting that I fell asleep while watching it!

What have you been up to this week? Leave me a comment and let me know!