The pandemic has been unkind to many. For anyone who has lost their job over the past year – I feel your pain. Working in the tourism industry in London for a company that was thriving financially felt like a secure job. Now around half their staff, maybe more, have had their positions made redundant. …
Author: Kate
18 Non-Christmas Songs For Your Winter Playlist
How are we in the New Year already? This Christmas season, and the year as a whole, has well and truly flown by! I guess it’s time to retire the Christmas music playlist until next December now. But the scarf weather is still here and the days are still so dark and short. Christmas may …
My Goals For A Brighter 2021
Guys, 2020 was rough. I started out the year with a list of resolutions, as I’m sure many of us do. For the most part, I was unable to actually fulfil any of them. So I’ve had a few days to think about it and decided that this year I don’t necessarily want to write …
Things That I Am Grateful For In 2020
Anyone else had a rough year? Well you wouldn’t be alone. I almost thought about making a post on all the things that had gone wrong for me in 2020. I’ve never wanted to post anything negative on my blog, but I had no idea how to talk about 2020 positively. Then the other week …
Christmas Baking: Millionaire’s Shortbread Recipe
For what is probably going to be my last Christmas post of this year, I have a tasty little recipe for you all to try out. Me and my mam usually make Millionaire’s Shortbread every year at Christmas from a recipe passed down from my nana. The recipe is so old it was written down …
5 More Festive Songs To Get You in the Christmas Spirit
Christmas music makes me very happy during the colder months. As soon as November hits my finger is always twitching over the play button for my Christmas playlist. I’ve already mentioned some of my favourites, but I have so many it’s hard to narrow it down. For me there’s a lot of nostalgia linked to …
Favourite lyrics from Taylor Swift’s ‘Evermore’
Now I’ve had enough time to process Evermore, I thought I’d do another favourite lyrics post. You can check out my favourite lyrics from Folklore here! Taylor Swift really did go all out this year to save 2020. She hyped us all up in the first half of the year with Folklore and now she …
Ideas For Celebrating A Birthday In Lockdown
Celebrating a birthday with the current lockdown restrictions can be difficult. You can’t go anywhere, you can’t see your friends and family, and overall it’s just not how most of us would like to spend our birthdays. So if you or someone you live with has a birthday coming up, I have some ideas for …
5 Festive Songs To Get You in the Christmas Spirit
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, you can’t escape Christmas songs around this time of year. So why not just try to enjoy them? Here are a few of my personal favourite Christmas songs to get you feeling those festive vibes! ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU – MARIAH CAREY No Christmas music list would …
Thoughts on ‘Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions’
It’s no secret to anyone that I’m a huge Taylor Swift fan. The calming vibes of folklore got me through this hell year. She even became my Spotify Wrapped artist of the year! Whilst the surprise album drop saved the first half of 2020, the studio sessions on Disney+ swooped in to save the last …