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Halloween ‘Boo baskets’ for kids 🎃

Hi guys 👋🏻🦇

October is here and that can mean only one thing!!

Halloween 🎃

I love a bit of Halloween, mainly because bats are my favourite animals, and it’s their time to shine, but also because I love a good horror film and I just love the spooky, autumn aesthetic.

Each year, I make a little Halloween hamper of sorts for my Nephews and Niece, and since the whole ‘Boo basket’ trend is going around, I thought I’d do my kids’ take on one…

Here they are!

Ideas for fun things to include…

Firm favourites with kids at the moment… slime! And fidget poppers. Both of these are only a few pounds in Tesco.

A cute little Halloween themed teddy. One of my nephews loves spiders, so I’m sure he will love that. Then I got the cute little pumpkin for my nievlce and the cute little frankie for my other nephew.

Some fun little cups which I’m sure they’ll get lots of use out of!

I also like to get them something to do or something crafty. These little ‘Paint your own wooden characters’ Halloween themed, of course, are from Asda for 2 (each pack has 2 characters inside!)

And finally…

Some edible goodies!

What’s Halloween without a sugar overload 😅🤣

I picked up the good old classic Freddos from Tesco in a multipack, and the Halloween chocolate lollies are from Aldi.

Fingers crossed, they will enjoy these! Hopefully, this has given you some inspiration if you fancy putting one together, too.

Happy Halloween! 🎃

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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Favourite book of the month, 2024 edition

Hi guys 👋🏻

How is it already October!!!

Spooky season is upon us 🎃

I thought I would share my favourite book from each month so far this year. There have been so many good ones. And who knows, you might even find some inspiration in my list!

Here goes…

January

Title: The Land of Stories: Worlds Collide

Author: Chris Colfer

Genre: Fantasy (Children’s)

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

February

Title: Remarkably Bright Creatures

Author: Shelby Van Pelt

Genre: Mystery

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

March

Title: Noone Saw A Thing

Author: Andrea Mara

Genre: Thriller

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

April

Title: Glutton

Author: Ed Gamble

Genre: Memoir

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

May

Title: Tattooist of Auschwitz

Author: Heather Morris

Genre: Historical Fiction

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

&

Title: The Inmate

Author: Freida McFadden

Genre: Thriller

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

June

Title: The Housemaid Series1.

1. The Housemaid

2. The Housemaid’s secret

3. The Housemaid is watching

Author: Freida McFadden

Genre: Thriller

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

July

Title: The Dead Zone

Author: Stephen King

Genre: Science Fiction Thriller

Rating:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

&

Title: The Twins of Auschwitz

Author: Eva Mozes Kor

Genre: Historical, Autobiographical

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

August

Title: The Wilds

Author: Sarah Pearse

Genre: Mystery/Thriller

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

&

Title: The Perfect Son

Author: Freida McFadden

Genre: Thriller

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

September

Title: Behind Closed Doorz

Author: B A Paris

Genre: Thriller

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

What’s been the best book that you’ve read so far this year?

All recommendations welcome!

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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Book Recommendations 📚

Hi guys 👋🏻

Can you believe that we are actually halfway through the year!!?! Madness.

So far this year I have read ..

I’m hoping to get to 52 by the end of the year 🤞🏻

I thought I would chuck a few recommendations out there based on what I’ve read so far.

These are some of the books I have read, and I’ll give them a little rating out of 5 for you.

‘The Housemaid’ by Freida McFadden

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

‘The Housemaids Secret’ by Freida McFadden

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

‘The Housemaid is Watching’ by Freida McFadden

⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

‘No One Saw a Thing’ by Andrea Mara

⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5

‘The Holiday Escape’ by Heidi Swain

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ by Heather Morris

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

‘The Inmate’ by Freida McFadden

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

‘The Trap’ by Catherine Ryan Howard

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5

‘November 9th’ by Colleen Hoover

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

‘None of this is true’by Lisa Jewell
⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5
‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’by Shelby Van Pelt

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5

Have you read any of these?

If you do, let me know! & any recommendations always welcome.

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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A London day out ✨️

Hi guys 👋🏻

So at the beginning of June, we spent a weekend celebrating our anniversary! (See previous post) we decided to do something a bit different this year. We usually opt for a night’s stay somewhere, but instead, we planned a ‘touristy’ day out in one of our favourite cities, London.

Here’s what we got up to!

First up – The Tower of London

Next up – A boat on the Thames

Third stop – The London Eye

Next up – Some Sightseeing

Next up – Dinner

Our final stop – A Comedy Club

We had a lovely time! It was quite fun doing lots of touristy things that we hadn’t done before! These are some of the things I’ve wanted to do for ages but never got around to seeing.

These days out in London are great if you can grab a ‘London Day Out’ train ticket too! Much more affordable (only £20 each, bargain!)

What’s your favourite sight to see in London?

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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June Highlights ✨️

Hi guys 👋🏻

Here are my June highlights…

Me, my twin sister and her family, my husband, and a couple of our friends went to the Harry Potter Warner Bros Studio Tour in Watford. This place is BRILLIANT, a must for any Harry Potter fans, I love visiting there. They had the ‘Return to Azkaban’ event on celebrating 20 years of the 3rd film – it was an awesome day out, and great to see some new parts of the tour.
We celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary on the 11th of June. Tim bought me some beautiful flowers, and we went out for a lovely meal at one of our favourite Italian restaurants.
To celebrate our 8th Wedding Anniversary me and my husband spent a touristy day out together in London. We started off the day at the Tower of London, we then had a boat rode on the Thames, followed by  the London Eye, sightseeing, and a comedy show in the evening. It was a brilliant and super fun day out.
For Fathers Day, we went to Felixstowe for a day in the sunshine.
We had a nice walk along the prom and a go on the ferris wheel with Dad.
We enjoyed dinner at ours, a nice sunset walk and games with my mother in law.
We celebrated my Dad’s 70th birthday with a family meal, with the cake I made for dessert… followed by a day on the Mid Norfolk railway 🛤

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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Birthday Fun 🎂🥳👯🏼‍♀️

Hi guys 👋🏻

A few weeks ago it was mine and my twin sisters’ 33rd birthday – woohoo! It actually fell on a Sunday which was the day we were actually born.

Here is how we spent our birthday weekend…

Saturday

We started off the Saturday with a delicious lunch at Revs. The sun was shining big time.

Me & Sarah (along with my husband Tim) met our friend Dan there.

Me & Sarah shared some delicious picky bits. The tater tots with garlic & chilli butter were INSANE. I was really impressed with all of the food and I’d love to go back.

We also had a bit of fun taking some photos in the photobooth ✌🏼

Once Tim and Dan had gone home me and Sarah went to Boom Battle Bar. We had a round of Mini Golf and did a spot of basketball on the machines. We each had a frozen cocktail each to round off the afternoon.

We picked up some smaller picky bits on our way home from town and ate those before having a nap (because, sun ☀️) and then went to the cinema. We watched ‘Fall Guy’ (with Tim too!) It was really good.

Sunday

Sunday was our actual birthday, so we decided to meet up for a nice brunch and do our usual present exchange together. We went to this lovely brunch spot along the waterfront – again, the sun was shining beautifully (we got very lucky with the weather!!)

Delicious!

Once we had eaten, our respective families got together at our Mum and Dad’s to open our presents from them.

Me & Sarah also got a little spontaneous birthday present for ourselves (pic below) 🙃

In the evening we enjoyed a nice family meal together with our older Sister, Mum, Dad, Brother in laws, Nephews, and Niece.

Here’s to year 34! Let’s see what it will bring 🎈⭐️

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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May Highlights ✨️

Hi guys 👋🏻

Here are my May highlights…

Promotion to the Premier League…

An absolutely unbelievable weekend, one we’ll never forget.

I can’t wait for the football season to start up again!

Our Birthday!

We had a fun birthday weekend celebrating together. We grabbed lunch and spent the day hanging out together on Saturday. Delicious picky bits at Revs in the sunshine, mini golf, cocktails, and the cinema.

On our birthday, on the Sunday we had a delicious brunch together, exchanged our presents, spent time with family and had a birthday meal with cake to round off the weekend.

Oh… and we may have got a matching tattoo on our birthday as well 👀

(See the blog post below for the inspiration)

Promotion in pictures 💙🤍⚽️

Celebrating special birthdays with friends.

We enjoyed a bottomless brunch in the sunshine 🌞 followed by some fun and games at a local bar, including interactive darts & karaoke.

A lovely family holiday to Norfolk.

We stayed in a lovely air bnb cottage in Norfolk. We went along with my mother in law, brother in law, my husbands Auntie, Cousin, and Grandad. We had a lovely time chilling out, cooking together, exploring nearby towns and Norwich City, walks  (weather permitting), and we even hired a boat, which was a highlight!

& I saw some bats, which was epic.

Going to see Take That live!

I will always love seeing Take That live! No one does it better. I can’t believe that this was the 7th time I’ve seen them love!!

Another fun month! And we are almost halfway through the year!!! Madness.

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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A fun, bookish haul 📚

Hi guys 👋🏻

I thought I would share some cool little bookish things that I recently bought.

They are just some fun, useful little bits that are perfect if you are a bookworm like me!

Let’s take a look!

A cute ‘Welcome to the library’ sign to go by the reading corner.
A reading light that sits across the page of your book.
Fun little reading lists to keep a track of the books you’ve read and your rating for each one.
A coin that says ‘One more chapter’ on one side and ‘Go to bed’ on the otherside. I’m pretty sure it’s weightless to the ‘One more chapter side’ 🤣
Some cute little book inspired stickers.

These were bought on both Amazon & Temu.

Later bookworms ✌🏼📚

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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April Highlights ✨️

Hi guys 👋🏻

Here are my April highlights…

Football fun! ⚽️
I met up with some friends from work/who I used to work with. We had a delicious Wagamamas.
I met up with another work friend for a delicious ‘Savoury Tea’, a Savoury version of a cream tea, a cheese scone, grated cheese, chutney & tea!

Fun on the farm with my two favourite boys and mum for their ‘Spring Carnival’ 🐮

A lovely meet-up with my bestie to meet her little one 💙

A fun family day out for my brother in laws birthday. We had a lovely lunch followed by a 5 mile walk along the coast.
Lots of reading & some new books!
A fun board game day with my husband, Auntie & Cousin.
A fun afternoon at the ‘Murder trial: Live’ this was such an interesting experience being on a jury and deliberating over a case, making a verdict and seeing the outcome. There was a majority of 54% ‘Not Guilty’ but she was Guilty 😬 I went with my twin sister, and we had a great time.
We celebrated my friends’ 30th birthday at work! We decorated, had a picky sharing lunch, and I made a yummy cake!

What’s been your April Highlight?

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Here’s to a good May!

🌈

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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March highlights ✨️

Hi guys 👋🏻

Here are my March highlights…

I took my nephew to the cinema a couple of times in March. They are my little cinema buddies after all. We watched Migration & Kung Fu Panda 4.
I went to the football a few times this month. We go with my Dad and I share a season ticket with my sister. The bottom photo is from the women’s match, this was the first time they had played at the stadium, and it was a great game 5-0
We celebrated ‘World Book Day’ at work – I dressed up as Harry Potter ⚡️
We celebrated ‘Mothers Day’ with our traditional homemade afternoon tea. I made a Victoria Sponge, topped with buttercream and a Lemon Drizzle Loaf Cake! Me & Mum also went out for a nice lunch at a nearby cafe/garden centre.

We celebrated my Uni friends’ baby shower this month, too!! It was lovely to celebrate and catch up.
WE FINALLY HAVE NEW FLOORING AND WERE ABLE TO MOVE BACK INTO OUR HOME !!
We enjoyed a fun (& delicious) Easter Sunday! With our traditional Chinese for dinner.

& finally,

We watched Mark Watson, the comedian in our hometown. I bought these tickets for my husband, for Christmas! He has seen Mark Watson a few times and really enjoys his comedy. I myself hadn’t seen him live before but he was very funny and I would definitely watch him live again. We got to meet him afterwards, too, and get a signed copy of his book.

What’s been your February Highlight?

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Here’s to a good April!

🌈

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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