The return of my gift guide – 2025 Christmas gifts for her! Bigger and better with a review on the 2024 successes.


The return of my gift guide – 2025 Christmas gifts for her! Bigger and better with a review on the 2024 successes.

It has been a great year for reading with 115 books in 2024. I set an annual reading goal of 100 books and at one point I thought I was not going to make it this year but our three week December holiday made for plenty of reading time! As always, I have read across genres and broken my recommendations …

A little Pinterest vs reality to see how Jan&Feb25 tracked against what we’d hoped for the months. Going slow and hibernating was a success.

A ramble through of how I am thinking about 2025 and why I am swapping goals for inspiration to find more joy in the everyday.

I round up of lovely things I would want for Christmas and have loved before in my Christmas gifts for her guide!

There are a handful of things in my life that I consider big-win game changers. They’re largely very silly but have had long-lasting results and improvements. Some have saved me time, some have saved me money and some have even changed the way I cook – dramatic but accurate! I thought I’d share this silly list with you in case …

An as snappy as possible run-through of my best books in 2023 highlighting my favourite serious friction, light fluffy reads and who-dun-its.

My best books of 2022 including great books, sweet stories, a few who-dun-its, some absolute fluff and a surprising number of fantasty!