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#MFFMM – My Five Favourite Monthly Moments from November 2024

by RachelSwirl November 30, 2024

Welcome to My Five Favourite Monthly Moments aka #MFFMM. This series goes live on the last day of each month and celebrates five favourite moments from the month gone by. You are most welcome to participate by commenting on these posts or by sharing your own #MFFMM posts. Don’t forget to add the #MFFMM badge to your posts and drop the link to your post in the comments below. So without further ado, here are My Five Favourite Monthly Moments (#MFFMM) from November 2024 A Sparkling Sensation We enjoyed not just one but two fireworks displays this year, both of which …

#LittleLoves – January 2024

by RachelSwirl January 26, 2024

Happy New Year and welcome to this month’s #LittleLoves post, which is part of a series that you are very welcome to join. Whilst January has been a bit of a wet, windy, and wild month in terms of the weather, we’ve tried our best to stay dry, warm, and cosey shielded away from the worst of it. Here are a few of my #LittleLoves from the past month whilst I’ve been ‘hermiting’ indoors… Read The Sunday Times will forever be associated with memories of my late Father, it was the one newspaper that he insisted on having every week …

My Targets For 2024

by RachelSwirl January 1, 2024

So here it is, the New Year has arrived. Let’s hope that 2024 gives us all the opportunity for a clean slate, new beginnings, and a fresh set of goals for the year ahead. Whilst 2023 was somewhat of a rollercoaster of a year, I chose to focus on the ups rather than the downs thus I’ll remember 2023 as the year that our little family made a whole heap of forever memories, together, as we enjoyed what was the holiday of a lifetime. Despite the difficulties and the down points that we endured throughout that time, I’m proud to …

#MySundaySnapshot – The Best Bits 53/53 (2023)

by RachelSwirl December 31, 2023

Welcome to this week’s #MySundaySnapshot post, which is part of a snap-sharing-blog-linky series that you are very welcome to join. Click here for further information and guidelines upon this linky should you wish to take part. And so here it is, the final #MySundaySnapshot post of 2023. It has been a real rollercoaster of a year with some huge ups and sadly some massive downs but here we are, it’s the end of December and what better way to look back on the year than to share my best bits… our trip to my ‘happy place’ aka Florida. After two years of planning and preparation, …