Last week I wrote about decorating the Christmas Tree and so today I want to write about our other Christmas tradition. We watch Love Actually.Now you could debate which is the best Christmas movie of all time, but my husband and I like Love Actually. You’ve got love, romance, family and comedy all in one movie and it makes me feel good. …
Christmas Traditions Part 1
It’s this time of year/ Everyone is getting ready for Christmas and all the Christmas traditions begin. These days, my husband and I have a couple of traditions. At the beginning of December we put up the Christmas tree. This can only be done if Christmas Carols are playing, of course! We have about five CDs of songs and have …
Start of the Christmas Traditions
In my family you know Christmas is close when Mum has her annual Christmas Party. She always holds it at the end of November, before everyone gets too busy with work parties, school concerts and all of the other end of year events that seem to take over December. It’s been running for about nine years now and each year …
Reflections: 12 months since redundancy
It’s exactly twelve months today since I was made redundant and I thought I would reflect on the year it’s been. When I was first made redundant, the one thing I wanted to do was to write for the rest of the year. I’d spent the last nine years working full-time and writing when I could make time, and I …
Happy Anniversary To Me
It’s both my wedding anniversary and the anniversary of when my husband first asked me out this week. You see when we picked a date for our wedding, we decided to keep it simple and stick with the same date. A winter wedding isn’t all that common, and yes there was torrential rain all day except for a small ten minute …
Favourite Cosy Mysteries
I did something I haven’t done in ages last weekend – I spent the afternoon on the couch, under my quilt and read a fun cosy mystery – Nefarious Doings by Ilsa Evans. I can’t remember the last time I read a cosy mystery and yet I read hundreds of them when I was a child. I loved Nancy Drew, …
Music and Memories
It’s funny how your senses can trigger a flashback to another time and place. Sometimes a smell can take you right back to an event that you’d completely forgotten about. For me, there is a particular song that always takes me back to one childhood summer: Sonia Dada – Lover (You Don’t Treat Me No Good No More). I don’t …
Easter Egg Hunts
I’m always curious as to what traditions people have, especially at certain times of the year like Easter and Christmas. With Easter almost over for another year I couldn’t help remembering the Easters of my childhood. Mum and Dad never went overboard with the chocolate; we generally received a chocolate bunny, maybe a Humpty Dumpty egg and a couple of small …
Sing like there’s no one watching
All right I confess, I love to sing. Now I’m not saying I’m very good at it, but I do like to belt out a good tune. This was demonstrated last Sunday. It was a gorgeous, sunny autumn day and I was in my car, alone, driving to see a friend when Uptown Funk (Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars) came …
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