Hello Twenty Twenty-five

What's to happen? And Must Haves

Hello lovely people I wish you all a happy 2025, I’ve got a feeling that this is going to be a very exciting year. There are two major things that will have my focus in 2025 and those are:

House For Sale

We are going to sell our beloved home at the end of this month and it feels so difficult and very sad as we love this home. This is the first house that I really call ‘home’ the other houses we lived in I called properties and money pits. But we want to relocate for our future and we can’t keep postponing it as we are not getting younger and by that said fitter. So we only have the life strength left to renovate another house so this is the year to do it!

Blogging to Vlogging

I’ve been blogging since 2008 and although I had a few breaks in-between I can’t seem to give it up as I love it so much. I love sharing, I love archiving and I love inspiring but I see that times have changed and that there’s less time to read or to sit down and allow oneself to read. I personally watch a lot of vlogs as I can do that whilst I do something else. I can iron, cook, sew, garden and so on and watch something on the side. The next right move for myself would be a vlog but I find it a bit daunting as I’m quite enjoying the privacy of being a blogger, I guess I will lose that privacy when I become a vlogger. But how fun will it be to be following us along our journey to a new home and a whole new country. So yes as soon as we sell our house in Belgium I will start a vlog about our move to Denmark.

And that’s it really, I have no big resolutions I’m not going to stick to. I always want to lose weight, stretch, walk and swim more but realistically I’m not going to do it so why torture myself? Life is all about priorities and my priorities are the top two ones.

Movie to Watch

Wicked

I am in LOVE with this movie. I was already in love with the musical, I saw in London in 2019, but the movie exceeded all my wildest OZ dreams. When can I move? The production and costume design blew me away so much that I had to ground when I walked out of the movie theatre and was so shocked about how ugly ‘our world’ is. Why don’t we have yellow brick roads? I love the diversity of the cast, Ariana her head swings, Jonathan’s sexy moves and I had to cry (and I loudly gasped) by a very unexpected surprise appearance.

Podcast to Listen

Sentimental Garbage - Wicked

Well for obvious reasons this is a must listen. They share all the same feelings. I can also highly recommend The Sound of Music.

Book(s) to read

Winter: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons by Melissa Harrison

I own all four books since 2020 but they have been standing in my bedroom bookcase untouched until the beginning of December when I started to read in ‘Winter’ and now I regret that I haven’t started earlier.

In prose and poetry both old and new, the Seasons series evokes the beauty of our changing year. Each book features extracts from classic works of great naturalists, specially commissioned texts and writing from household names, including Robert Macfarlane, Helen Macdonald, Ted Hughes, Nan Shepherd, H. E. Bates and many more.

You can purchase all four at my favourite book place on the web - Slightly Foxed

Thanks for reading. Much love, Yvonne