2025 Memories 3/12

Hi guys ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป

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 ยฃ15 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 ๐Ÿ™‚

25 books in 2025 ๐Ÿ“š

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25 books in 25… a new challenge…

This is bit of a different take on this challenge by @katie_ellison (instagram)ย  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 ๐Ÿคฃ 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  โœŒ๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ“š 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 ๐Ÿ™‚

My 2024 Cinema List ๐ŸŽฅ

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

Here is everything I saw at the cinema this year!


January

Wish โญ๏ธ

With Tim, Sarah, Noah & Casey


Night Swim ๐ŸŠโ€โ™€๏ธ

With Sarah


All Of Us Strangers ๐Ÿ‘ฌ

With Tim


February

Anyone but you: Valentines Encore ๐Ÿ’

With Sarah


Wicked Little Letters โœ‰๏ธ

With Sarah & Tim


March

Migration ๐Ÿฆ†

With Noah & Casey


Imaginary ๐Ÿงธ

With Sarah


Kung Fu Panda 4 ๐Ÿผ

With Noah & Casey


April

Immaculate โ›ช๏ธ

With Sarah


Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire ๐Ÿ‘ป

With Tim


Abigail (4DX) ๐Ÿง›๐Ÿผโ€โ™€๏ธ

With Sarah


May

Back to Black ๐ŸŽค

With Mum


Tarot ๐Ÿƒ

With Sarah


The Strangers: Chapter 1 ๐Ÿชต

With Sarah


IF ๐Ÿ‘ง๐Ÿป

With Noah & Casey


June

The Watched ๐ŸŒฒ

With Sarah


Inside Out 2 โ˜บ๏ธ๐Ÿคฌ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ฒ๐Ÿคจ

With Tim, Dan, Noah & Casey


July

A Quiet Place Day One ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

With Sarah


Fly me to the moon ๐ŸŒš๐Ÿš€

With Tim


Longlegs ๐Ÿ˜ฑ

With Sarah


August

Twisters ๐ŸŒช

With Tim


It ends with us ๐Ÿ’

With Jasmine


It ends with us  ๐Ÿ’

With Eloise


Despicable me 4 ๐ŸŒ

With Noah & Casey


Trap ๐ŸŽถ

With Sarah


September

Blink twice ๐Ÿ

With Sarah 


Speak no evil ๐Ÿก

With Sarah & Demi


Interstellar: 10th Year anniversary IMAX ๐Ÿ›ฐ

With Tim


October

Terrifier 3 ๐Ÿฉธ

With Sarah


Smile 2 ๐Ÿ˜

With Sarah


Horror Season: Nightmare on Elm Street ๐Ÿ”ช

With Sarah


November

Paddington in Peru ๐ŸŠ

With Noah & Casey


Wicked ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿฉท

With Sarah & Tim


December

We live in time: UNLIMITED Screening ๐Ÿ˜ข

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 ๐Ÿ™‚

My 2024 Book List ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ“š

Hi guys ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป

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??? ๐Ÿ“š

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


Until Next Time,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

A Bonus Blogmas post ๐ŸŽ…๐Ÿป๐ŸŽ„โœจ๏ธ

Hi guys ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป

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

Boxing Day

Christmas with the Byfords

Other holiday fun…


Here’s to a happy, healthy 2025 ๐Ÿฅณ๐ŸŽ‰โœจ๏ธ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿผ

Until Next Time,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

Blogmas 2024: Day 25!! Christmas Eve fun & MERRY CHRISTMAS ๐ŸŽ„

Hi guys ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป

First things first – MERRY CHRISTMAS ๐ŸŽ…๐Ÿป

I hope you all have had a wonderful day.


Let’s have a look at how we spent Christmas Eve ๐ŸŽ„

I delivered Christmas Eve boxes to my niece and nephews! It is one of my favourite traditions. I love putting these together.

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.

The we went home & I popped my stocking at the end of my bed and went to sleep.

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 ๐Ÿ™‚


Blogmas 2024: Day 24 A Christmas light trail โœจ๏ธ

Hi guys ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป

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 ๐Ÿ™‚

Blogmas 2024: Day 23 ‘Feeling festive’ ๐ŸŽ…๐Ÿปโค๏ธ

Hi guys ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป

Every year, for the last few years, at least, I have included a post like this, and simply, it is just a collection of festive photos, of various subject matters that I have taken throughout the festive period.

If you haven’t guessed by now, I’m very fond of this time of year, and I love taking festive snaps to capture christmassy feels or moments.

So enjoy!

All that’s left to say is…

‘Happy Christmas Eve, Eve’

2 days to go!!


Until Next Time,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

Blogmas 2024: Day 22 Festive Nails ๐Ÿ’…๐Ÿป โœจ๏ธ

Hi guys ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป

Let’s take a look at the festive nails that I have done during the Christmas period. I have a little gel lamp at home. I’m not a professional, so it’s just my best, haha.

Let’s take a look!


Set number one, I went for a super festive nail art set. I wanted to try out a few different designs. I used my pinky gel builder as the base. I did a candy cane ๐Ÿฌ Santa hat ๐ŸŽ…๐Ÿป Christmas lights โœจ๏ธ a star ๐ŸŒŸ and as you can see below, a present bow ๐ŸŽ


The next set was a lot simpler as I had less time when I was doing them. I really like this set, though, because it looks super festive, uses all my new Christmas colours, and is super glittery. Red, gold, and green are my favourite colours.


My final festive set is nice and fresh ready for my friends wedding on Monday and for the big day!!

I went for the pinky gel builder base. I did a candy cane pattern along each tip of my nails. I love the effect of this. I then added some nail art onto some of the nails. I really wanted to try out some more nail art, one last time! And to use some more of my Christmas colours.

I went for a candy cane ๐Ÿฌ some multi-coloured glittery dots โœจ๏ธ and a Christmas tree ๐ŸŽ„ Really happy with how these cane out, especially the tips! It’s just a shame my nails aren’t longer as the tips would have been even more effective.


Have you got festive nails? What designs are your favourite for the festive period?


3 days to go!

Until Next Time,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚