Pinch and a punch.....
.....hello January....
....2025!!
May 2025 be filled with love and kindness, and good health and happiness.
Here's to lots of travels and adventures, good coffee and cake and plenty of sunshine.
(not much to ask for!!)
As with every passing year, a simple £1 bunch of daffodils is the best way to get through a grey January. Plenty of Spring bulbs dotted around, with the promise of better days ahead.
We took this pic before Sam headed off!
I wonder what's in store for us all this year.
Sophie? A new house, maybe!?!
Sam? Graduation, a move to London, a job!?!
Me? Less aches and pains please.
Jeff? Stay fit and healthy!
No dramas please x
Sam spent last night up in Carlisle with Poppy and we had a quiet evening at home.
We never really celebrate the New Year. I think if Jeff didn't have to go back to work straight away, I would be possibly up for seeing in the New Year in a different country, but here, in grey, wet, cold England, there isn't much to entice me out!!
We do try and stay up to see the New Year in and watch the fireworks,
both from our neighbours and London on the TV!!
Sophie was up and headed off super early this morning. She's gone back to Cardiff . It's been lovely to have her home for the past two weeks. She and I are off to Italy in the Spring, just for a few days, back to Florence/Pisa and wherever she wants to see. So the countdown begins.
I made lots of promises to myself last year, that I didn't keep. I wanted to lose weight for our month in Greece but it didn't really happen. I think, in all honesty, I've settled where I'm at, if that makes sense. This is my natural weight. Yes, I'd like to be a stone lighter for the scales, but I generally feel okay as I am and am happy in my own skin. What I do want to do, is improve how I feel. Improve/manage my menopausal aches and pains. Losing a stone could help and if that's a by product of eating better, moving more, then excellent, but it isn't going to be my main focus! Good health is my focus for 2025!
So we go into a new year with a blank page.
A time for new beginnings, fresh focus, hopes and dreams.
I always try and focus on the positives, look for the good in people, in situations.
I saw this, this morning!
"Make sure you're happy in real life"
This is going to be my mantra for 2025!
Happiness x
