One Little Word 2017

Happy New Year, friends!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and a fab New Year, however you chose to spend it!

I really hope it was more exciting than mine...

I was wrapped up in bed, struck down by a horrible chest/cough/cold thing...not the way

I had hoped to spend the last night of 2016 if I'm honest! 

Thankfully, it happened a day or two after Christmas day, 

so I was able to enjoy all the amazing food and drink that Christmas has to offer 

before I was confined to bed with only toast & water!

Anyway, now we're in 2017!

How weird is that? How long does it take you to get used to saying/writing the new year?

It usually takes me a good few weeks!

A brand new year, 365 days full of opportunities & experiences 

waiting to be grasped with both hands.

As this new year begins I want to carry over something that I did last year,

in place of creating New Years Resolutions or goals.

I'm sure you've heard of it before; the One Little Word project.

One Little Word, 2016

Browns Bay, N.I

Happy New Year!!

Oh, wait, is it too late to say that now? We're almost a whole week into 2016 already, and here I am wishing you all a happy new year. But, it is my very first post of the new year, so I'm sticking with it!

September Round-Up & October Goals

It's that time of the month again where I let you know how well, or more likely how badly, my goals for the last month have gone! I always have such good intentions, but somehow my motivation/will power just cannot keep up! Septembers goals were slightly varied in comparison to previous months, but as usual it's a mixed bag in terms of how successful I was in completing them. Let's power through, shall we?

August Round-Up & September Goals!

September is quite literally just around the corner, and hopefully this year is much like every year previous and there will be a glorious little September heatwave! Just you know, to fool us into thinking that we've actually had some nice weather this summer, before we can settle nicely into Autumn and every amazing thing it has to offer!

July Round-Up & August Goals!

So here we are at the beginning of yet another new month! August has rolled around, and we should be basking in glorious sunshine, enjoying all the delights that Summer has to offer! Instead, I'm sat inside, watching Harry Potter with background music of rain battering against the window. Definitely not good summer weather. It feels more like October or November, than August!

June Round-Up & July Goals!

It's hard to believe that we're at the end of yet another month! Maybe these monthly goals weren't such a great idea after all, all they're doing is making this year fly in!

Camping in Gosford Forest Park

Last month over the bank holiday on the 25th May, David & I actually went camping. I say actually because it was one of my May Goals, as David had been wanting to go for ages, and I'm quite proud that we actually went! We decided to head to Gosford, as it's my favourite place in the world (well....maybe just in NI), and I know how to get there easily enough, so there would be no directions drama, which is always nice!

We borrowed my brothers’ tent, filled the car with as many blankets, duvets, pillows & food as possible, and set of for 3 days camping in the beautiful forest.

May Round-Up & June Goals

Sunset at Browns Bay, N.I

As appears to be the theme so far this year, June has arrived way too quickly for everyone’s liking. If I was still in school, I remember exactly how excited I would've been around this time of year. Never mind exams and schoolwork and all that other rubbish, it was almost time to be off for 2 whole months!! Exams were just an inconvenience and the sooner they were over, the sooner we got to leave for the ever glorious summer holidays.

May Goals

Kilbroney Park, Rostrevor, looking sunshiny & beautiful!

So March & April were complete write offs in terms of Goals, but we’ll just call that a blip and move on!

We’re almost in May, and it’s legit scaring me how quickly this year is going in. The last week or so has been beautiful weather-wise, which means that we are creeping closer & closer to summer, and that is crazy!

January Round-Up & February Goals

January Goals:

Happy New Year...Almost!

Welcome to the last day of 2014!

Weird. Tomorrow is the year 2015. Does it take anyone else a stupidly long time to get used to the sound & feel of saying a new year? 2015 sounds so wrong to me at the minute & I'm not ready to stop saying 2014 yet. I also feel like it was the fastest year ever, it just flew by so quickly.

And now we’re the same amount of time away from 2030 as we are from 2000. Yep. That’s a real thing.