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A few things I’d like to get out of 2023

A few things I’d like to get out of 2023
In addition to my review of the year, it’s time for my short round-up of hopes and aims for the year ahead. 2023 feels like it’s going to be a year full of potential – possibly because it’s the first year in a few where we’ve got a feeling of certainty about the plans we’ve made, and as such actually have a few things lined up. But it’s also a year where we feel on the cusp of a few different life plans, and we might see ourselves move a step further forward with some of them. View Post

A Review of the Year and Lessons learned in 2022

A Review of the Year and Lessons learned in 2022
Well somehow another year has come and gone, and 2022 certainly seemed to fly by! To say we started the year in fear of the rise of another COVID strain, and we’ve ended it with COVID barely being mentioned over the festive period feels like a real turnaround. 2022 hasn’t been without it’s challenges, but it’s also a year I’ll remember for a very long time due to some of the great experiences we’ve had. Some made all the sweeter for having to wait so long for them. View Post

How to have a travel themed wedding on a budget

How to have a travel themed wedding on a budget
When I first started planning my wedding, way back when we first got engaged, I knew that I wanted it to be a travel themed wedding. Travel is something that we both really enjoy, and more importantly that we enjoy doing together. It also felt like a nice metaphor in some way – a wedding is about celebrating the start or next step of your journey together as a couple, so why not use our wedding to celebrate some of the journeys we’ve had together along the way. Theme in hand, it was time to start some of the actual planning.

I knew from the start of planning that I wanted my wedding to have a travel theme, but it needed to be on a budget! Here are my top tips for travel themed wedding decor on a budget.

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Catching up on 2022

Catching up on 2022
Hello friends – it’s been a while hasn’t it? I can’t believe more than half the year has gone since I last wrote something and published it here, but that seems to be the way 2022 is going. Life seems to be very busy, and when it’s not the last thing I’ve felt like doing is sitting in front of a computer screen, so as a result my little corner of the internet has been somewhat ignored. But now I’m looking out of the window and am surprised it’s starting to get dark, that there are conkers on the ground and that somehow autumn has arrived. This time of year always seems to fly by and before we know it, it’ll be Christmas and another year will have been and gone. View Post

A few things I’d like to get out of 2022

A few things I’d like to get out of 2022
In addition to my review of the year, it’s time for my short round-up of hopes and aims for the year ahead. I went into 2021 with my yes wide open and pretty realistic expectations about what was going to happen in the year ahead. 2022 I’m finding a little more difficult. We actually have a surprising number of things in the diary and even though we’ve got used to qualifying everything with ‘well it depends on restrictions’, I’m hopeful that most of them will go ahead. We haven’t had to cancel anything (yet) which was an improvement on this time last year looking into 2021. View Post