This has been a very weird year for us, mainly because we are hoping to move house after having lived here for nearly 26 years, the whole thing is very stressful and it’s only reading and blogging which has kept me semi-sane throughout the process.
I signed up on Goodreads to read 100 books in 2013 and I surprised myself by exceeding that, you can have a look at what I’ve been reading here. A lot of the books were quite slim volumes, vintage crime and the like but I have also read quite a few chunksters by Trollope and Sir Walter Scott. All in all it has been a good year for reading. Feel free to friend me on Goodreads.
It hasn’t been a great year for crafting and garening though. Somehow when you decide to move away then a garden that has been a real joy over the years suddenly became something which for me had no future. If you’re a keen gardener you are always planning ways of improving your plot and that has obviously been missing this year. I dream of a new garden which for me doesn’t even exist at the moment.
Anyway bang goes yet another year – and how fast do they wheech past nowadays! I’ve enjoyed blogging and reading the thoughts of other bloggers and of course loved the people who take the time to comment, whether they are fellow bloggers or folks who just drop by, it’s all appreciated. Happy New Year to you and yours, lets hope it’s a good one for us all.
Happy New Year, Katrina! The fireworks are going off from all the seven hills around Edinburgh and it’s very colourful, noisy and smoky. Perhaps you can see them from Kirkcaldy?
I hope this New Year brings you a buyer for your house so you are both ready to move on to the next chapter in your lives and the joy of designing a new garden. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you!
Linda,
Thanks. Surely things will improve in the property market soon! I’m envious of you being able to see and hear the fireworks so easily. In the past I’ve watched them from Burntisland. I heard on the news tonight that there were still some street party tickets left and I thought about going in to Edinburgh, then I became sensible again! I hope 2014 is a great one for you.
A very happy New Year, Katrina1 We’re still a few hours away here. I remember how stressful it was last year, packing for the move – and I’d only been in that place 6 years. If I lived closer, I’d offer to come help đŸ™‚
Lisa,
Happy New Year to you and yours. I think I’ll be fine when we actually sell the place, we’re half packed up already. The property market is still very slow here, and that’s what’s stressful – so many viewers with homes still to sell!
Happy New Year to my favorite blogger and Scotswoman. 2014 will be a good year to sell a house! Thanks for all you do.
Lorraine,
Happy New Year to you and yours. Fingers crossed everything will work out with the house soon, or maybe Easter! Honestly I’m doing nothing blog wise but having some fun and I’m sure that’ll increase when we do move!
Happy New Year Katrina! I guess as I haven’t been around for a while I’m wondering why you are moving and where you hope to move to? I know how stressful a move is, I imagine you are feeling in a limbo. I hope you can take some plants with you, some are like old friends!
Michelle,
Happy New Year. Jack has just retired from teaching and as we now have an empty nest we think it’s a good time to downsize and maybe move a wee bit closer to the west of Scotland. I’m definitely taking plants with me, some of them were originally in my dad’s garden so I’m sentimental about them and others are reminders of old friends. We’re definitely in limbo and as we are flexible about where we move to it seems like the choice is too big!
Happy New Year, Katrina, and good luck with the move. Congratulations on completing the Goodreads challenge…I’ve added you as a friend.
Helen,
Have a great 2014, thanks for adding me to Goodreads as a friend. I just hope we do move soonish.
Happy new year. Cluedo looked fun, years since I played that. With only 3 of us at Christmas, board games don’t work that well.
Well done on reading the books! I need to clear up my reviewing,still a few books behind.
Jo,
I still have a couple to blog about, I had hoped to get them all done before ‘the bells’ but life got in the way. As the youngest in the family I know what it was like not to have anyone to play board games with.
I hope 2014 will be a good year for you, especially work-wise, I imagine that it is all a worry for you at the moment.
Happy New Year to you! I hope things all work out with your move and you can find a place that you love.
Anbolyn,
Thanks. I hope that your new job is all you could wish it to be. We are busy researching where would be the best place to move to, when the time comes!
Happy New Year Katrina. I hope 2014 will bring you all you desire – happy house hunting!
Margaret,
Thanks. I’m quite superstitious about 13 so feel happier already now that we have got rid of that year!
Happy belated New Year! You had a good year of reading by the sound of it. I hope you are able to move house in time to get some good gardening in this year!
Stefanie,
Happy New Year to you! Hopefully I will be able to get stuck into a new garden and a bigger one too, but so many of the newer houses have almost no garden or it has been mono blocked over. It’s not going to be as easy as I thought it would be to get a decent sized garden.
Happy New Year! We were on a cruise for the holiday, after spending Christmas with my mom in Florida, so I’m running a little behind.
2013 wasn’t half bad, and I’m hoping that 2014 will be even better. Still have several years to go before I can hang it up and retire, but starting to feel it.
I can totally understand wanting to downsize but can’t get my head around the purging and packing that would be required. You have my deepest sympathies!
Pearl,
Happy New Year, I think I saw on Facebook that you were on a cruise, I hope you had a good time. So far 2014 is an improvement on last year for us, fingers crossed it stays that way.
We’ve been thinking about moving for a while now, mainly because we don’t want to end up like elderly relatives did, having to live in a big house with all the added expense and not having the energy to move. I think we have the energy – just!