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A few things I’d like to get out of 2026

A few things I’d like to get out of 2026

Every year I write a short overview of my hopes and aims for the year ahead, to accompany my review of the year. If you’ve read my review of 2025, you might understand why I’m going into 2026 feeling a little bit unsure and in limbo. Regardless of what happens, I think it’s going to be an interesting year but I have absolutely no idea how it’ll shape up. What we’re hoping will happen isn’t the sort of thing you can just pop on a list (as I’ve learned!) and so I have to continue getting comfortable with wait and see…

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A Review of the Year and Lessons Learned in 2025

A Review of the Year and Lessons Learned in 2025

2025 has been an interesting year. It’s been a year of contrasts and of learning that sometimes life can’t be planned. It’s yet another year that seems to have slipped away quite quickly in a blur of different plans, but there have also been some valuable moments of calm and quiet. At the start of the year the thing I wanted to achieve above all was finding a sense of balance, and whilst I certainly think I made progress, it’s actually quite difficult to tell if I managed to achieve it completely.

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Lessons learned since getting a puppy

Lessons learned since getting a puppy

Apparently I haven’t shared a post on here since February… I knew it had been a while but hadn’t realised quite how long. That’s what happens when you’re busy with life! Anyway, despite various exciting trips this year and a number of old posts still sitting in draft format, today I’m going to take a bit of a departure from the usual and talk about puppies. We’ve had ours for just over eight weeks now, so he’s been with us for longer than he was with his mum and littermates, and I can’t quite believe that we’re only two months in as it feels like he’s been with us for so much longer.

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A winter weekend in Hebden Bridge

A winter weekend in Hebden Bridge

Sometimes you visit a location due to convenience rather than a particular desire to see the place, and sometimes it ends up being exactly the right place to be. Hebden Bridge seems to be having a bit of a moment – I’ve seen it featured in various food and travel magazines, and it also happened to be in the fictional book about witches that I’ve just finished. It was somewhere I was meant to go on the hen do that never happened in 2020, and it just so happened to be a good halfway point between me and one of my best friends. So Hebden Bridge it was!

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A Day of Books: My Experience at Mr B’s Reading Spa

A Day of Books: My Experience at Mr B’s Reading Spa

I can’t quite remember how I first heard of Mr B’s Reading Spa, but as soon as I did, it was something I aspired to do. Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights is an award-winning independent bookshop in Bath, and their Reading Spa is unlike anything I’ve come across anywhere else. I was lucky enough to be gifted one (having mentioned it a couple of times…) and have recently had the opportunity to use it, and now I’m already wondering if I might be able to do one again in the future.

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