The word is a very exciting place

 Hi everyone. This was actually a rather unplanned post. I figured with there being 52 weeks in a year, and with the posting on Sundays & Wednesday's, I would need 104 posts for 2025. Hilariously, I realised only two weeks before the end of 2025 that I was a post short, as I had already planned & written most of the posts for 2026, and got them all lined up in sequence and date order, ready to go. That's what happens where you're too organised, there's no wiggle room.  So I thought why not create a recap post for the year? But then that became confusing, as you know, I've not yet written or posted about 2025, so how could I recap it and spoil the surprise? So why no recap the year through the posts I had written about? 

 Possibly the UK's best known & visited cat cafe is in London, Lady Dinah's cat cafe is located in Bethnal Green. We had been before, but couldn't resist a visit to make some new friends! Who doesn't love making new feline friends?

 I'm sure it's a rite of passage for everyone to say "this is going to be my year" and made upteen plans about how this year will be their year, and all the changes they are going to make. I'll admit, I do exactly that, and then halfway through January I've failed all of them and am stuck in a cycle of frustration and crippling lack of drive. I think we all get like that though, don't we? I think it's a sort of rite of passage in the middle of January. Anyway, it was a quiet start to the year, work was quiet, and once all the christmas stock had cleared and the new spring stock was in place, it was nice to have some slightly lesser crazy days, and I could spend some time doing those small jobs that you never seem to have any time for.

 December brought freezing temperatures. And I mean freezing. I am always hot, I am one of those awful people that always needs the windows open or the air con on. So for me to say it was cold, it really must have been cold!

 Barev! And welcome to part two of the 2022 JESC, where I will be reviewing the interval acts, the voting, and of course, giving my opinions on the winner! I will also be revealing my results, will it change the winner? Will last place no longer be last place? We don't have long to wait! So without further ado, lets begin!

 Barev! Greetings from Armenia, this years host of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest! Coming to you live from Yerevan, we are going to see sixteen countries take part this year. My home country the UK is returning this year, while Azerbaijan (unsurprisingly, considerdering Armenia is hosting) Bulgaria, Germany and Russia (again, unsurprisingly due to their invasion of Ukraine) will not be taking part this year. Of course, we are in Armenia thanks to Malena's win last year with her song "Qami Qami". I will be reviewing the contest in two parts, the first will be my reaction to all the songs, while the second part will be about the results, as well as giving out my own scores. Will my points change the leaderboard? We shall have to wait and see! And without further ado, let's start the show! This years art design is so so good, featuring the Armenian colours and a traditional spinning top. And this continues with our opening video, explaining how the world rotates and ...

 November brought some nicer weather, with some cold but bright days. Work was getting busier, christmas stock was flowing in rapidly, and I was running out of places to put it. Every shelf was full, every spare unit was full, I was putting as much on the tills as possible to try and get it moving, you couldn't move in the warehouse it was so full. Pallets everywhere. The random deliveries continued, I received another 500 bottles of food colouring, as well as so many stock cubes I had a whole shelf dedicated to them in the warehouse. We were also inundated with crackers, but that I didn't mind so much, because we were constantly filling them! We also had some renovations at home, the bathroom had been redecorated and redone, and it was looking rather beautiful!

 November was here, and that meant the monster that is Christmas was right around the corner. There would be no such thing as spare time, and any little time I had not working, would be spent recovering from work. So I thought I would make the most of it, by having a weekend up in London with James. I'd worked until midnight on the friday night before, and we got up earlyish (I think I said I would be up at 8, but I think it was closer to 9, or maybe half past nine!), and after brunch drove up to London. We stayed near Ealing, and were absolutely stung in parking charges, I think it would have been cheaper to have caught the train up. We've remembered that for the future!

 October was turning out to be weather wise, a great month. It was warm & dry, perhaps I had brought the weather back from Spain? Normally I take the rain with me, so it made a nice change. Me and James continued to spend time down the beach, making the most of that glorious weather.  The morning started off a little dreary and grey, but the water was so super flat and calm. Once the sun came out, it was glorious, not to hot but nice and warming. Perfect for an ice cream!