Summary – October to December 2024 and 2025 wishes

I would like to wish you a Happy New Year to all of you and your family. I would also like to thank you all for reading my little blog.

I took a little break during Christmas and new year to enjoy time with my family. I am now starting the year with a summary of what happened in our life in the past three months (October- December 2024). Additionally, I am going to discuss my wishes for 2025. Hope you will enjoy it.

Read January to March 2024 summary here. Read April to June 2024 summary here. Read July to September 2024 summary here.

Ile Madame France
Ile Madame France – summer 2024

Personal Life:

Beginning of September (for me) and beginning of October (for Matt) was our 10th year anniversary of moving to UK. It is crazy how time flies and I struggled to realise that we have been living in UK for 10 years now. It feels like yesterday that we moved. We have done so many things in the past 10 years and discovered a lot of lovely places in the UK.

Additionally, in November I celebrated my 35th birthday with a nice weekend in Peebles, Scotland. It was very busy at work during the autumn so it was nice to break the period until Christmas with this little break.

Read about our weekend in Peebles here.

Finally we took two good weeks between Christmas and New Year to enjoy some time relaxing at home with family. Matt’s parents even joined us during that time.

Peebles, Cardona forest
Birthday in Peebles

Walking:

We had a couple of nice days during autumn but not a lot so we haven’t been able to do as many walks as we would have liked. We still managed to do beautiful walks to Loughrigg fell summit, around Lanercost Priory and in Whinlatter forest. We also managed some local walks around Buttermere, Ennerdale and Loweswater.

View of Loughrigg tarn, Lake District, England
On the way to Loughrigg Fell

Travelling:

During autumn we mainly stayed at home and only managed a weekend in Peebles and a weekend in Edinburgh with some friends.

Read about my weekend in Edinburgh beginning of December here.

The Dome, Edinburgh
Christmas tree at The Dome, Edinburgh

Blogging:

I am still working on updating my blog (e.g. checking that all the links work, format is consistent, adding some new pages, etc) and it is taking more time than anticipated. I am hoping to have finished by spring.

Otherwise I am nearly up to date with my writing and only have three blog posts about our summer holiday in France and one about our visit of Maryport aquarium.

Map of Scotland, near Peebles
Map of Scotland

Books:

As the beginning of the year I have been mainly listening to audiobooks during autumn. I have managed to read / listen the following books (in reading order).

Port de la Rochelle, France
La Rochelle, France

Blog discoveries:

Finally I am sharing some great blog posts written by fellow bloggers in the past three months.

Lanercost Priory, Cumbria
Lanercost Priory, Cumbria

2025 wishes:

For 2025, I would like to finish updating my blog and try to be more active on social media. Which social media do you use the most for promoting your blog?

I am also going to moderate walks on Visorando and continue writing my walks on this website. I am planning to write a blog post about my experience using Visorando for walking.

See my Visorando profile here.

We are going to continue using Home Exchange to plan our holiday as we really enjoyed the experience in 2024. I also received a discount for the second year so only paying £129 for the entire year, unlimited exchange.

We have some holidays already planned for April (if everything goes as planned) and will have to go back to France in July for Matt’s sister big 40 birthday. Then we will see what else we do.

Read about our experience exchanging houses here.

I will also keep organising some weekends away to break the year and of course I have a long list of walks I would like to do but Let’s see what 2025 will bring !!!

What are your plans for 2025?

Photo by Jill Wellington on Pexels.com

Find all our adventures in UK here

48 thoughts on “Summary – October to December 2024 and 2025 wishes

  1. Happy New Year and thanks for the mention, Melodie. It sounds like a good year. When it comes to promoting the blog I’m lazy. Via WordPress I use Facebook, Instagram and Threads but I seldom do follow up. I also use Twitter but that’s not so popular these days. I had a look at Visorando, which I’d never heard of and will be interested in your post about using that, but doubt if I would post a walk on there. Hope your plans for the year proceed as you would like. The house swap system is a good one.

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    1. Thank you. I am not putting too much pressure on myself that is why it is taking ages as I only update it when I am in the mood 🤣. Blogging still need to stay a pleasure and not become a constraint for me.

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  2. Sounds like you had a good last months of the year. To promote my blog and blog posts, I mainly participate in groups, forums and message boards as being an active member in targeted forums and online communities can often give me a much better return on my time than social media. Thanks for sharing, and have a good day 🙂 Thanks for sharing, and have a good day 🙂 Aiva xx

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  3. Happy New Year, wishing you all the best in 2025. House swapping sounds really interesting- have you/ will you blog about that?

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