Sunday Funday – Looking Back

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Looking back

It’s now 2020 and the start of a new decade, a whole 10 years have passed since 2010 and I am still struggling to comprehend where the last 10 years has gone! And even though it seems to have passed by quickly, 10 years is a really long time when you think about it. 36500 days, 876,000 hours, 52,560,000 minutes, and there is so much that has happened in that time globally, locally and personally.

I’m sure, wherever you are, you will have seen some of the news highlights of the past 10 years, whether it be celebrity news, economy, business or any other kind of news. Seeing these changes has made me think about my life over the past 10 years and things that have happened to me in that time so today I am sharing my “Decade of Highlights”.

I was made redundant
My brother and sister in law got married
I passed my driving test
I got accepted onto my Foundation Degree course in uni
I became an auntie
I worked 3 jobs in one go to fund myself through uni
I passed my Foundation Degree and was accepted onto my BA (Hons Degree)
I handed my notice in on 3 different jobs for different reasons
I undertook a Nail Technologies course and passed
I moved into my own home
I got a full time, permanent job
I got a dog
I attended a ton of festivals all over the UK
I got back in touch with old friends
I started my blog
I learned so many new skills that would be hard to even list
I overcame fears
I got diagnosed with Aspergers
I have begun to understand myself

There are so many small things that have happened too but there really are too many to list, but the biggest thing that has happened is that I started 2010 with no real idea of what I wanted to do and have ended it, and begun 2020, with a solid idea of what I want to do and a plan of how I can achieve my goals! Hopefully, this coming decade will be the decade where all my dreams come true!

What are some of your highlights of the last decade? I’d love to hear in the comments!

Happy New Year!!!!

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Happy New Year to all of my readers! I hope you all had a fab New Years’ Eve and seeing in 2020! I spent the evening playing board games with my neighbor and having a few drinks, sharing a lot of laughs along the way! It was a really lovely way to see in the New Year!

I have been thinking a lot, recently, about this blog and all of the things that I want to do with it, firstly a YouTube channel that I want to use as a place to chat about my week in place of sharing a weekly round-up here. If you are already on YouTube feel free to head over to my channel and give me a follow (I have a video up that I recorded the other day which you can find by clicking here).

I am also going to be making a few changes to my content, I shall be dropping a few things from my regular content and hopefully, moving them over to e-mail once I have figured out how Mailchimp works. Moving some of my content over to email will give me more space to create content on the blog and free up some time for new things that I want to add!

Talking of new things that I want to add to the blog, starting next week I shall be starting

Motivation Monday which will be a motivational piece to help kick start your week
Top Tip Tuesday where I shall be sharing a top tip that I have
Words on Wednesday which will be the same as before, where I write about something that I think is important or that I have been thinking about
Top 10 Thursday is still the same, a Top 10 of any topic or subject
Fiction Friday will be about any book or audiobook that I have been listening to or reading, any recommendations and to be read lists. I would also like this to be a place to discuss any books you have been enjoying
Saturday Shout Outs will be restarting, I have a few that are ready to post but didn’t want to share them in December when generally stats are down
Sunday Funday will be an anything-goes sort of post where I will be sharing all sorts of things across all of the topics that I cover.

I am really excited to start this new posting schedule and how I present my content and I am really interested to see how it all goes!

What are you changing for the New Year on your blogs? I’d love to hear in the comments!!!!

Blogmas – I Missed a Few…

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I’d had it all planned out, all the posts for the whole of December and I was doing so well up until last weekend when I had a few impromptu days of visitors and spending time with friends that catching up on Blogmas was nearly impossible.

It isn’t often that I have last-minute plans and lose a few days of blogging but it was really nice to spend time with friends who I haven’t seen for years and spend the time catching up over a few glasses of wine, eating lovely food and just spending quality time together.

Then, before I knew it, Christmas was upon us! I worked Monday and Tuesday, zooming home after work each day to finish writing cards and wrapping presents that I had forgotten about, packing a bag for myself and Roxy and travelling to my friends on Christmas Eve to spend Christmas Day there. I headed back on Boxing Day, then gathered some things, had a shower and drove to my Mum and Dads house to have our Christmas with my brothers, sister in law and my niece and nephew.

I had a really lovely time seeing the kids open their presents, spend time chatting with all of the family and eating lots of lovely food, including lots of cheese (sorry Dad!) before arriving home and heading to bed.

On Friday I had to go to work but the day was easy and quiet with only a few of us in. It was the perfect atmosphere to get all of the loose ends tied up and ready for Januarys payment to be made.

I got home from work around 4:20pm and cleaned the house and tidied up before heading to bed early, both Roxy and I were shattered! I was up early on Saturday and whizzed the hoover around as my brother, sister-in-law, my niece and nephew were popping by before heading back to London.

It has been a hectic, mad and brilliantly fun festive period but I am so glad that we only do this once a year! I’m now on count down to the New Year! I have so many plans and ideas for the New Year and I can not wait to get everything underway and started!

How was your Christmas? I hope you all had fun! what are your plans for New Year’s Eve?

Blogmas – My Christmas Decorations

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I finally got around to taking some photos of my Christmas decorations!

What were your decorations like? I’d have liked to put more up but as I wasn’t going to be here for Christmas Day I decided to only put up my absolute favourites!

Blogmas – Christmas Day

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Happy Christmas! I’m sorry I have been quiet on the blog front for the past few days, I had a few unplanned but really lovely days that were spent with visiting friends!

I hope you all have a lovely day! Much love to you all and your families and friends! Xxx

Blogmas – Surprise Saturday

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It’s another Surprise Saturday and I’m really surprised about a few things, number one being that it is the last Saturday before Christmas and the second, that I am pretty much ready for the day itself!

I got the last of my gifts purchased and am waiting on delivery so I can get them wrapped, the cards are written (the few that I send) and waiting to be hand-delivered, all of the decorations are up and, yesterday, I had my first Christmas Celebration with my friend who is going to be away over Christmas visiting family!

I had a really nice day yesterday, my car passed its MOT so I collected it in the morning and then went to get some food for dinner. It is a bit of a tradition now that my friend and I have our Christmas before he goes away. We spent the day preparing dinner, talking, playing games (mainly Dobble), setting up my Wii, watching Christmas films and eating lots of lovely food!

I prepared prawn cocktail for starters then had a roast dinner before tucking into a dessert of cherry pie and ice cream. The main course consisted of mashed potatoes, roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, roast carrot and parsnip, cauliflower, sprouts and a Quorn Roast. It really was the best day!

How are your plans coming along? Have you had any Christmas celebrations yet? Let me know in the comments about what you have been up to, I’d really love to hear about it!

Blogmas – Festive Friday

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We are edging ever closer to Christmas and this Festive Friday my thoughts are on desserts to be served after dinner on the big day! There are so many different desserts to choose from and every store seems to create a fantastic show-stopper of a dessert that it is really hard to choose any single one!

I am a huge fan of any kind of dessert, seriously, it’s my favourite food group! The problem I have is whether to choose a fruit-based dessert or chocolate or caramel! I have come to a conclusion though, after a lot of thought… after a big meal, something that is light and fresh is a good choice so I am thinking of serving something like a lemon mousse or meringue, or even some sorbet or ice cream after dinner.

I have seen a lot about serving 2 desserts, one after the main course and then one later on with coffees, and I really like that idea. The great thing about this is that you can serve a richer dessert later then with the coffees. A dark chocolate torte would be the perfect accompaniment to coffee!

What are you thinking of serving as dessert on Christmas Day? Let me know what you would suggest in the comments!