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2023 State of the Union

2023 was a rocket ship, in the best possible way. It took off in January 2023 and then just kept on rising and rising, at incredibly fast speeds. I barely feel like I took a breath all year. Like 2022, it was another year of incredible blessings, its stressful moments, but ultimately a ton of […]

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Fly Away

Visit Malta

In November 2023, Lu and I decided to fly to Malta for a quick weekend trip. Lu had been before, but I had never been, so it felt like a good opportunity to try and get some sun in November and tick another country off the life list. The one takeaway I had was that […]

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Stay Home

Renovating our primary bedroom

One of the main things that really attracted me to our new house was the size of the main bedroom. Coming from a small flat where our Queen bed basically touched the walls on both sides, just the idea of having more space to utilise in the bedroom felt like a dream. And the dream […]

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Visit every US State: Washington

Note: I’m aiming to visit every single US state. To tick a state off, there must have been an overnight stay within the state! On the positive side, I was very pleased to be able to travel to Seattle, Washington for work this year, because I had never visited Washington state before, and thus, it […]

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Culture

Watching F1 at Silverstone

Watching a Grand Prix live has been on my life list for years and years, but it was only after really getting into F1 through watching the Drive to Survive documentaries on Netflix, that I got serious about actioning this one. We decided to splurge and do this in relative style, by getting tickets to […]

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Go on a gondola in Venice

This is one of my longstanding life list items from the initial list that I wrote, because of course Venetian gondolas are iconic and legendary. It’s become an even more important life list item since I wrote it, given we’ve all become more used to hearing that Venice may not be around forever thanks to […]

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Culture London Life

Renaissance: Seeing Beyonce in concert

As my absolute favourite artist of all time, it was non-negotiable that we went to see Beyonce in London as part of her Renaissance world tour. This is me sitting outside the stadium waiting to be let in, and realising that I absolutely should’ve upped my outfit game, because everyone was dressed in the most […]

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Culture Fly Away

See Usher in concert

While we were in Vegas for our April 2023 trip, we realised that Usher would be performing at his My Way residency in the Park MGM. Lu is a big Usher fan, so we absolutely had to get tickets! If I could describe the show in three words, it would be: sexy, energetic and a […]

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Culture Fly Away

Watch a real live rodeo

As we were planning our 2023 Vegas trip, Lu found out that there was a county fair happening nearby while we were there. Now, an important thing to understand is that Lu is absolutely obsessed with going to specifically a STATE fair in the States, but she figured a county fair would also be great! […]

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Celebrate London Life

Celebrating my birthday 2023

My birthday this year was SO good, and I’m still beaming about it as I write this. After the big party I threw last year, this year called for something more private and reserved. I decided to stay overnight in Central London, at the Landmark Hotel in Marylebone, and indulge in 2 of my favourite […]