Hi guys 👋🏻
Happy Easter Hols! Here’s what I’ve been up to ✌🏼
Week One
Week Two
I hope you’ve enjoyed the long Easter weekend, if you celebrate it 🐇
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Easter Hols 🌷🐣🌞
Category: Life
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!
Total reads this month:
4.5
Favourite book this month:
‘The Wake – Up Call’ by Beth O’Leary
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
2025 Memories 3/12
Hi guys 👋🏻
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 🙂
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 🙂
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 🙂
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 🙂
2024 🎉
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
A Bonus Blogmas post 🎅🏻🎄✨️
Hi guys 👋🏻
Thanks again for all the views on my Blogmas 2024 posts- I hope you all enjoyed them.
I thought I would include a little bonus post, rounding up the last few Christmassy days that followed the end of Blogmas, on Dec 25th.
Enjoy!
Christmas Eve
Christmas Day
dinner 😋
Boxing Day
Christmas with the Byfords
Other holiday fun…
Here’s to a happy, healthy 2025 🥳🎉✨️🫶🏼
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Blogmas 2024: Day 25!! Christmas Eve fun & MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎄
Hi guys 👋🏻
First things first – MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎅🏻
I hope you all have had a wonderful day.
Let’s have a look at how we spent Christmas Eve 🎄
We went out in the evening for our traditional Christmas Eve Lights look out around our town. We all loved the festive Skeletons and this brilliant charity effort.
I’m also a big fan of Christmas Eve as we have lots of fun traditions on that day that make us feel super festive.
I hope you’ve all had a lovely day and enjoyed yourself whatever you have been doing.
We’ve had a great time spending the day with family, that’s what it’s all about. And the Christmas dinner was fantastic.
Until next year, that’s me over and out for Blogmas 2024. I hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as I have.
See you soon,
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Blogmas 2024: Day 24 A Christmas light trail ✨️
Hi guys 👋🏻
Last week, we got the opportunity to have a look around a Christmas light trail. It was at a park nearby and we had a free evening so we thought, why not!
Let’s take a look!
It was a lovely festive evening. All cosy and wrapped up, the lights looked really cool, and they even had some lovely real christmas trees with warm lights, so simple but lovely.
We grabbed a nice hot sausage roll to eat whilst we walked around from the cafe in the park.
I love Christmas lights so much. They are one of my favourite things about Christmas (the more, the better!!)
As a new little tradition that we started last year, we go to the light trail at Colchester Zoo. We go after Christmas so it doesn’t appear in Blogmas, so it’s nice that we’ve gone to one during Blogmas so we can share it.
Have you been to a light trail?
1 DAY TO GO!!!!
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Roseanne Byford 