2025 Wrapped
I've been waiting for Nintendo to come out with their Year in Review so I can make my Wrapped post and they finally have! So let's see what 2025 held in store for me:
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2026 Resolutions
So how are we all enjoying 2026 so far? One week in and I think this is a good time to review my resolutions from last year and see about making new ones. (And before any smart arses come at me, no I do not have over two thousand resolutions! 😂)
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2026 Resolutions
So how are we all enjoying 2026 so far? One week in and I think this is a good time to review my resolutions from last year and see about making new ones. (And before any smart arses come at me, no I do not have over two thousand resolutions! 😂)
2025 Resolutions:
1. Post more 2019 photos. First one out of the gate is a failure. I know this is getting rather ridiculous by this point and I should probably just forget about it but I'm not going to. I will get this done!
2. Finish at least one book. Success! I finished a few and currently only have one on the go. Well, unless you count the Song of Ice and Fire series but I think I really have given up on that.
3. Post a fic that's not part of a fandom event. Not so successful here. But I really hope to do it this year. (I know, I know, I keep saying that...)
4. Score 1/6 on Wordle. Alas, no. Annoyingly I was listening to White Christmas when playing recently and I nearly went for White as my starter word but I was convinced it had already been used. It hadn't and was the answer that day. Aagh!
5. Move house. MAJOR SUCCESS! As I write this while sitting in the living room of my new house I think I can officially tick this one off!
6. Participate in the World Jigsaw Championships. Another success! I went, I puzzled, I did not qualify for any semi-finals but I had a lot of fun.
7. Find a new hairdresser (mine went out of business months ago and I've been lazy about finding a new one.) I did find a new hairdresser. But then I moved house and now I need to find another one!
8. Keep the table clear. (It's so nice to have space. Let's try and keep it that way!) Well, we left that table behind so I'm not sure what the current state of it is! But I'm already cluttering up the surfaces in my new house, which is exactly what I don't want to be doing.
Overall I'd say I did pretty well. Didn't achieve everything, but did enough. Especially considering moving house was the really big one!
And now, let's see what I want this next year to bring me:
1. Post more 2019 photos. I'm giving myself the deadline of 2029 to get this finished, so I really need to make some progress this year!
2. Post a fic that's not part of a fandom event.
3. Score 1/6 on Wordle.
4. Make this house feel more like my home and less like a place for storing moving boxes!
5. Qualify for the semi-finals in a jigsaw competition (Nationals or Worlds.)
6. Find a new hairdresser.
7. Find a new dentist.
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Team Puzzling
Hello, and welcome to the second of my catch-up posts about things I've been doing recently. If I were writing these entries in chronological order this one should be about my Festive Weekend with Paul. But that's going to be a much longer entry, so instead I'm going to skip over that weekend and go straight to last Sunday when I went up to London for a teams puzzle event!
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Lytham
I'm trying to catch up on the things I keep meaning to post about, so let's travel back to the end of November when I went up to Lytham for the 10 Hour Jigsaw Puzzle Marathon!
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Tree!
The tree is up and decorated for our first Christmas in our new home! The train isn't going around it yet, but hopefully soon. At the top is the peregrine falcon I bought at the Battersea Power Station Chimney Lift! He looks so good up there!
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Hello, December!
It's Advent Time!
Our Calendar Count is at 15 this year — Six chocolate ones (A Dairy Milk each, Dairy Milk Biscoff and Maltesers for Mum, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and Galaxy for me) as well as two jigsaw ones (Gibsons and Professor Puzzle), Laithwaites Red Wine, a Riddle Calendar, Taskmaster, Pukka Teas, M&S Beauty, the refillable one I made up for Mum, and Scrumbles for Tormund.
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Worlds Part Five: Pairs
Part Five: Pairs
Here I am, ready for pairs with my badged up lanyard, puzzle necklace and puzzle piece earrings! I also have a puzzle piece bracelet that you can't see here. Allison gave it to me and I wore it so much it fell apart!
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Off the Boil
The boiler stopped working again yesterday and I couldn't get it back on. I have an appointment booked for a replacement to be installed next week, which is good. I was worried it was going to take ages but they said they understand that it's a priority as we currently don't have any heating or hot water.
Of course this would happen just as the weather shifts to near freezing temperatures. We even had snow this morning! To keep us warm I ordered a fan heater earlier. It's just arrived and is doing a fantastic job of warming the room. The main issue now is going to be showers as unlike the old house the showers here use the hot water supply rather than heating up cold water themselves. So I may just be stinky for the next few days!
In other news, I went to visit the Hastings Museum today. I was the only person there, which did feel a bit weird, but I was proud of myself for going and not chickening out! It was really interesting. I had hoped to buy some presents in the gift shop but the choices were limited. I did manage to pick up some presents in town though.
Wednesday Woes
I woke up this morning to no heating or hot water and the boiler flashing an error message. I called the plumber as soon as they opened and he was able to come round soon after midday, which was good. He replaced the gas filter and it's working again for now, but apparently the circuit board is also misbehaving and the whole thing is 15 years old so it's probably best to get a new boiler. He's going to send me a quote and I'm sure it's not going to be cheap. He also talked about new piping and whether I wanted it to go around the outside or along the inside of the house. I went for outside cos I don't really like the idea of drilling holes into my nice new kitchen!
Also today I had to call my bank cos I used my credit card on a bad site. I'm annoyed with myself for falling for the link that was sent to me, but in my defence it looked like like it came from the hotel I'm staying at next weekend. The return email address was correct and it knew all the details of my stay. Fortunately I had to confirm payment on my banking app and it was clearly dodgy so I cancelled it, but by that point they already had my card details. I emailed the hotel and they said they had other reports of this happening, so it looks to me like their system was compromised.
Now I'm waiting for the third thing to go wrong. The oven was being weird earlier and I'm a bit worried it's going to take on that role, but I really hope not!
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Nearby Rye
I got the bus to Rye this morning. My first time visiting there since moving and I'm a bit surprised at myself that it's taken this long to take a trip. I had a lovely time walking around, even if the weather wasn't the best.
I wandered up to Ypres Castle and the Gun Gardens and looked out over the river.
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Showing Paul Around
Paul came to visit yesterday. He approves of the new house, which is good. He then drove us into Hastings so I could play tour guide and show him around.
We started at The Shipwreck Museum, which was very interesting and clearly a labour of love. There was an outside section where some pigeons had made themselves at home:
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Worlds Part Two: Enter The Dome
Day two and it was time to ENTER THE DOME! Yes, after seeing it in pictures and online for so long I was finally able to go inside. I imagine this is how contestants on Bake Off feel.
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