What I've been up to this week #20

Started the week by going back home after a week in England

Received this plaque we made for the dog

Had pasta carbonara as our first meal back from England

Went into town and the sunset made the clock tower look very nice

Got my goodreads year in book recap which I always get so excited to get. My objective was originally to read 12 books in 2025 but then I reached it and put it back up to 20 but in the end I read 37 books which I'm quite impressed about

Ended the year by eating my first ever colin the caterpillar with mum after a night of picky bits on NYE

Here's my last book of 2025 and my first book of 2026!!

Onto a next book! 

Went to the cinema with mum to watch the housemaid. I'd read the book earlier this year and was so excited about the film. They had Sydney Sweeney and the actress from Mama Mia in it and the soundtrack included Lana Del Rey and Taylor Swift so I was chuffed with that! By the time we were leaving the cinema it was night time but we saw the sunset just before it was dark!

Mum and I were bored on Saturday so we decided to go into town for a wander. Nothing very exciting, we got a drink and a snack from Normal, I got a new journal for my junk journaling and we got our glasses tightened up. As I'm writing this, we're waiting to see if our favourite store puts up a too good to go bag up so we can go pick one (or two or three) up but so far since we've been back they haven't put any up so our expectations are low!

What I've been up to this week #19

A lot has happened this week as we've been in England all week for Christmas!

 

Spent Sunday reading and I finished reading this graphic novel that I really enjoyed

Waiting for my grandad to arrive!

We got the eurotunnel to England which we rarely do, we usually get the ferry, and on our drive home we saw a really beautiful sunset

As we always do we spent the day after we arrive in town, which was decorated for Christmas but it didn't feel Christmassy at all they weren't event playing Christmas music even though it was two days until Christmas

was very exciting as I had Christmas money to spend and obviously I HAD to go to Waterstones!!! I picked up about 10 books in total from the works and Waterstones. I also got about 5/6 books for Christmas which was very exciting!!

My nanny made a Christmas cake

Had an afternoon in the old town which is always nice. They have a bookshop that I always go to but this time I didn't buy any book even though a few caught my attention! Found them on vinted for a fraction of the price so that's a bonus!

Christmas dinner!!!!!! The meal I've been waiting for for a whole year!!!!! 

Everyone spent the afternoon watching tv so I took the opportunity to read all afternoon. I even managed to finish reading a whole book! Which I loved!

Felt weird seeing a dog in the house since we had to put our dog down a few weeks ago

Stocked up on gravy and bought my first Colin the caterpillar for me and mum to enjoy on new year's eve!

Had fish and chips (well we all had battered sausages and saveloys)

Started this book the day after Christmas and I'm already half way through!!!! I've been wanting to read this forever so I'm very excited to finally be reading it!

What I've been up to this week #18

Not much has happened this week but next week will be more fun because we're off to England for a week to celebrate Christmas with my grandparents!

We ended the weekend by going to the Christmas parade in Dunkirk which was very nice. 

Did lots of reading this week. Here's the book I'm currently reading and some books I've finished this week!

Tuesday was the most exciting day of the week as I got a new tattoo by my favourite tattoo artist ever! If you're ever in Dunkirk and want to get a tattoo contact Jeannettepoke at the Strawberry tattoo shop! It's my fourth tattoo by her and I'm as always obsessed with what she created which was exactly what I wanted. A couple days before his death, we decided to take the imprint of our dog's paws and I sent that to her and she managed to come up with this and it's perfect!!

See you next week for a more exciting blog post! 

Make the season bright book review (includes spoilers)

A couple weeks ago I finished reading this book and I still can't stop thinking about it because it was really good. I may even go as far as to say it's one of my favourite books ever. Of course I had to give it 5 stars!

It's about two women (Charlotte and Brighton) who are childhood best friends, they were engaged and meant to get married but Brighton left Charlotte at the altar. They haven't been in contact in 5 years since Charlotte was left at the altar but both their friends groups go to Charlotte's mums house for Christmas.  She signs all the characters up for different activities and soon enough, Charlotte and Brighton are paired up at the same activity as a duo. This forces them to be close and get back into contact. At the start of the book they ignore each other completely as nobody in the friend group knows about Charlotte and Brighton's history. At one point, they get snowed in and are forced to talk about everything that happened on their wedding day, and everything that has happened in the 5 years they haven't been in contact!The plot twists that happen during the last 20 pages were insane I had no idea the story would end like the way it did. Basically at the end everything is back to normal between them and fast forward a couple years and they even get engaged again!! 

Ashley Herring Blake (the author of make the season bright) is the same author that wrote Delilah Green doesn't care (and the other books in that series) and I LOVED THEM so much!!!! So I knew I would love her way of writing which I did, and I couldn't put the book down I always wanted to know what happened next!

I saw lots of people say they didn't like the book because they could never forgive someone that did that to them and I get it but I honestly didn't mind it, it was so fun to read I didn't care. 

I haven't read the rest of the other books in the Bright Falls series (the books that follow Delilah Green doesn't care) but I'm even more excited to read them now I've read make the season bright!