Category: Life

Our 9th Wedding Anniversary 💗

Hi guys 👋🏻

Some of you may know, some of you may not, but I started this blog when we were planning our wedding! I started it to document the lead up and planning to the big day.

So, it seems only right each year to do a little post to honour the day that inspired this blog in the first place.

The blog has evolved over the years and has more of a book focus, but this is how it all began 😊

Let’s take a look back at our special day!

11.06.16

I loved our pink & green theme. These are still my two favourite colours.

My bouquet still has pride of place on our dining room table, and I loved all the personal touches like our ‘Honeydukes’ sweet shop!!

We had a brilliant day with our family and friends.

And the party was pretty good too 🥳

We spent our 9th wedding anniversary enjoying a cooked brekky together before work, and exchanged our cards and pressies. Tim got me some lovely flowers 💐 😍

We had a lovely dinner at one of our favourite Italian restaurants this evening.

Happy Anniversary to us X

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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May Reads 📚

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Let’s take a look at this months books.

Month Five – let’s go!

‘The Best Summer Ever’ by Heidi Swain
‘The Boy Who Lived’ by David Holmes (Audible)
‘The Tenant’ by Freida McFadden
‘Never Lie’ by Freida McFadden
‘The Unwanted Guest’ by Shari Lapena
‘Dallergut Dream Department Store’ by Miye Lee
‘Return To The Dallergut Dream Department Store’ by Miye Lee (Audible)

Total reads:

7

Favourite book:

The Best Summer Ever by Heidi Swain

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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Birthday fun 3️⃣4️⃣🥳

Hi guys 👋🏻

This week me and my twin sister had our 34th birthday (errr where did that time go?!?!)

Here’s what we got up to!

Birthday morning

In the morning, I enjoyed some breakfast pastries and juice prepared by Tim. I then opened some lovely cards and presents with him before work.

Birthday afternoon

In the afternoon, once I had finished work, I got changed and met my sister in town for a late lunch. We went to our local Revolution and saw outside in the sunshine. We shared some of their delicious picky bits, a cocktail each, and we exchanged our presents.

And of course, we took our traditional photo booth photos…

We had a bit of extra time to kill, so we headed over to Boom Battle Bar and played an hour of augmented darts, which was fun!

Birthday evening

In the evening, we headed over to our mum and dad’s with my husband, and my sisters husband and my two nephews.

We hung out for a bit and opened our presents from our parents, which was nice 😊

Me & Tim went home when everyone else left and enjoyed a  little bit of dinner (didn’t need much!) We watched some tv together and then I started one of my birthday books.   

A lovely day 😃🎈

Happy Birthday to us.

👭🏼

(Special mention to Agatha, the Caterpillar cake I made for us this year. Really happy with how it came out.)

Have you started planning your birthday yet?

What sort of things do you like to do on your birthday? 🎂

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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April reads 📚

Hi guys 👋🏻

Let’s take a look at this months books.

Month Four – let’s go!

‘I haven’t been entirely honest with you’ by Miranda Hart
‘Someone in the attic’ by Andrea Mara
‘The Girls’ By Lisa Jewell
‘The Woman on the ledge’ by Ruth Mancini
‘The Boyfriend’ by Freida Mcfadden

Total reads this month:

5

Favourite book this month:

The Woman on the Ledge by Ruth Mancini

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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Easter Hols 🌷🐣🌞

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Happy Easter Hols! Here’s what I’ve been up to ✌🏼

Week One

Train journeys are the perfect time to pick up your book.
Coffees, walks & catch ups.
Sunshine & sea.
Takeaway Nandos 🙌🏼
Lil ice cream at the cinema treat.
My fave reading spot.
Shorts in April? Who dis?
Cinema with hubby 💗
Breakfast with my nephews.
Mediterranean brekky, delish.
Colour hunt – I spy purple.
Colour hunt – I spy yellow.
Spring floral nails by moi.
Colour hunt – I Spy orange.
AC birthday tradition photo.
Book one of the hols.
Work ✌🏼 at least it’s sunny.
The Sims ⭐️
Brunchin’ with a friend.
Book 2 of the hols.
20° – whattttt!?

Week Two

Out for lunch with Mum.
Breakfast crossaint 🤤
Fun playing The Sims.
With my favourite 3.
Easter craft session with the kids.
Easter Egg hunt time.
& finally, chocolate Easter Nest making.
Enjoying Good Friday on the Waterfront.
Our yummy brunch sandwiches.
Playing Catan at Geek Retreat.
My Easter Egg.
Yummy Easter desserts for a family lunch.
Out for a lovely Easter Sunday afternoon walk.
Me & Tim 💗
Our traditional family Easter Chinese in the evening 😀

I hope you’ve enjoyed the long Easter weekend, if you celebrate it 🐇

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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March Reads 📚

Hi guys 👋🏻

We have just finished the third month of the year, and we are on a book count of 15.

Let’s take a look at this months books.

Month Three – let’s go!

50% the 2nd half read – Book Club Pick
‘With This Kiss’ by Carrie Hope Fletcher
‘The Doctors Wife’ by Daniel Hurst
‘Ward D’ by Freida McFadden
‘The Wake – Up Call’ by Beth O’Leary

Total reads this month:

4.5

Favourite book this month:

‘The Wake – Up Call’ by Beth O’Leary

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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2025 Memories 3/12

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So, I had an idea to document some more memories on my blog. I used to do a lot more of these sort of posts before I started posting more book/reading content, and when I had more time haha, life seems to be busy these days!

So I thought as we are a quarter of the way through the year, I could do a quarterly memories update to capture 2025.

This is part one, the first three months of the twelve of 2025!

Let’s take a look.

January

I’m not always a fan of January. It always seems such a miserable month after the festivities if Christmas, but this one wasn’t too bad! Me & my husband went to London together for the day, we saw ‘Harry Potter and The Cursed Child’ (again) and had a delicious dinner at a fancy Italian restaurant. 

There was more footie with my nephew and lots of reading this month!! I love making my new reading lists and new book purchases for the new year. I also had two baby showers to celebrate, which was lovely! Not a bad start to the year, really!

February

In February, we had some fun sleepovers with my Nephew’s and Niece, me and my twin sister played the OG ‘The Sims’ game on its re release anniversary special, so amazing nostalgia there! I went to London to meet up with my Uni friend Kirsty and we watched ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Musical… we also had dinner with another friend afterwards which was a great catch up (The show was  really good).

Me and my Twin sister also saw a show, but in Norwich, we watched Giovanna Fletcher in ‘The Girl on the Train’. It was so cool to see Gi in a show and it was done really well on stage (I love the book!!) Speaking of books, Me and some friends from work started up a reading library in our staff room which has been going well and is nicely stocked now.

This month I also added some colourful accessories to our bathroom to finish it off, (we had it redone at the end of last year), and I have been meaning to add some colourful for a while!  And we, of course, enjoyed a lovely Valentines evening together at our favourite Turkish restaurant.

In the February Half Term me and my husband went away for a long weekend. We stayed in Norfolk at a lovely inn and enjoyed a chilled weekend! The pub was lovely and cosy, the food was brilliant (breakfast included, always a winner with us!) And we had a little trip to Banham zoo, which I haven’t been to in years. We even had a Meerkat experience whilst we were there as they were only £15 each, bargain. It was a lovely relaxing weekend, much needed.

March

We had lots of fun in March, including the football and limited edition Ed Sheeran stickers!! My besties little boy had his first birthday party (under the sea themed),  and our new sofas finally arrived!!

There was lots of yummy food, including a work meal at Prezzo, Wagas with my sister and our friend Dan, as well as our traditional Mothers Day homemade Afternoon Tea with my sisters and a Mothers Day lunch with Mum. I’ve also been ill a lot this month with coughs and colds, which is not ideal, so here’s to a healthier April.

What have been your highlights this year so far?

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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25 books in 2025 📚

Hi guys 👋🏻

25 books in 25… a new challenge…

This is bit of a different take on this challenge by @katie_ellison (instagram)  whose lovely template I have used.

I have chosen 25 books from my tbr shelf that I am finally going to read in 2025!

My double stacked shelves were getting a little out of hand, so what better way to clear them a bit than to actually read some of the books I’ve bought!!

I tried to go for a mixture of genres, there is still a lot of thrillers in there because it’s me so that’s what I buy 🤣 but I do also have some fantasy books, romance, a sci fi, some historical fiction and some crime in there. It’s not a bad mixture.

Here’s my selection…

  • A Court of Thorn and Roses
  • That Night
  • How to Kill Your Family
  • The Suspect
  • The Castaway
  • The Air Raid Book Club
  • The Lies You Told
  • The Woman On The Ledge
  • The Teashop Gurls At War
  • A Slow Burning Fire
  • An Unwanted Guest
  • Hold back The Stars
  • The Paris Apartment
  • How To Stop Time
  • The Wake Up Call
  • The Split
  • Tomorrow and Tomorrow
  • Traitors Gate
  • The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time
  • The Boyfriend
  • Come Back For Me
  • With This Kiss
  • Love Untold
  • The Night She Disappeared
  • I Died On A Tuesday

Have you read any of these?


Wish me luck with my challenge  ✌🏼📚 I will try and remember to do a little update halfway through the year.


What’s on your tbr list for 2025?

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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My 2024 Cinema List 🎥

One unlimited card, one year, let’s go!

Here is everything I saw at the cinema this year!

January

Wish ⭐️

With Tim, Sarah, Noah & Casey

Night Swim 🏊‍♀️

With Sarah

All Of Us Strangers 👬

With Tim

February

Anyone but you: Valentines Encore 💝

With Sarah

Wicked Little Letters ✉️

With Sarah & Tim

March

Migration 🦆

With Noah & Casey

Imaginary 🧸

With Sarah

Kung Fu Panda 4 🐼

With Noah & Casey

April

Immaculate ⛪️

With Sarah

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 👻

With Tim

Abigail (4DX) 🧛🏼‍♀️

With Sarah

May

Back to Black 🎤

With Mum

Tarot 🃏

With Sarah

The Strangers: Chapter 1 🪵

With Sarah

IF 👧🏻

With Noah & Casey

June

The Watched 🌲

With Sarah

Inside Out 2 ☺️🤬😭😲🤨

With Tim, Dan, Noah & Casey

July

A Quiet Place Day One 😬

With Sarah

Fly me to the moon 🌚🚀

With Tim

Longlegs 😱

With Sarah

August

Twisters 🌪

With Tim

It ends with us 💐

With Jasmine

It ends with us  💐

With Eloise

Despicable me 4 🍌

With Noah & Casey

Trap 🎶

With Sarah

September

Blink twice 🏝

With Sarah 

Speak no evil 🏡

With Sarah & Demi

Interstellar: 10th Year anniversary IMAX 🛰

With Tim

October

Terrifier 3 🩸

With Sarah

Smile 2 😁

With Sarah

Horror Season: Nightmare on Elm Street 🔪

With Sarah

November

Paddington in Peru 🍊

With Noah & Casey

Wicked 💚🩷

With Sarah & Tim

December

We live in time: UNLIMITED Screening 😢

With Sarah & Tim

Total films: 33

No of times visited: 34

My favourite films this year were…

  • All Of Us Strangers
  • Wicked Little Letters
  • A Quiet Place: Day One
  • Wicked

I’m looking forward to another year of cinema fun!

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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My 2024 Book List 🎉📚

Hi guys 👋🏻

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 2025 IS HERE!

I have been keeping this little book list all year and thought I would share it with you now that it is complete!

I have included my favourite books of the year, as well as some more indepth info on my reading for 2024.

Let’s take a look!

(Pink books are Book Club Books)

Novels

Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

The Colour Purple by Alice Walker

The Land of Stories: Worlds Collide by Chris Colfer

The Sisters by Claire Douglas

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russel

Hopeless by Colleen Hoover

The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods

Noone saw a thing by Andrea Mara

November 9 by Colleen Hoover

None of this is true by Lisa Jewell

The Traitors by C.A. Lynch

The IT girl by Ruth Ware

A Song of Me & You by Mike Gayle

All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle

The Trap by of Catherine Ryan Howard

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

The Holiday Escape by Heidi Swain

The Inmate by Freida McFadden

The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

The Guest by Lorraine Mace

The Housemaids secret by Freida McFadden

The Housemaid is watching by Freida McFadden

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

The Little Venice Bookshop by Rebecca Raisin

The Twins of Auschwitz by Eva Mozes Kor

Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

Haven’t They Grown by Sophie Hannah

Taking at night by Claire Daverley

The Dream Home by T M Logan

The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams

The Wilds by Sarah Pearse

Twin Truths by Jaqueline Sutherland

The Perfect Son by Frieda McFadden

Just Another Missing Person by Gillian McAllister

One by One by Frieda McFadden

Behind Closed Doors by B A Paris

The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood

The Teacher by Tim Sullivan

The Coworker by Freida Mcfadden

The Locked Door by Freida McFadden

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

The Christmas Cottage by Sarah Morgan

Happy Bloody Christmas by Jo Middleton

The Christmas Sisters by Sarah Morgan

Home for Christmas by Heidi Swain

I wish it could be Christmas every day by Milly Johnson

Novellas

A Highland Christmas by M.C Beaton

Maybe Not by Colleen Hoover

Audiobooks

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J K Rowling

Glutton: The Multi-Course life of a very greedy boy by Ed Gamble

A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

1984 by George Orwell

The Dead Zone by Stephen King

Other

The Land of Stories: The ultimate book hugger’s guide by Chris Colfer

Dino Dad by Andy Day

Let’s take a closer look at this year’s reads…

What has been your favourite book of 2024??? 📚

What’s the best book you’ve been recommended??

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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