Volya’s 7th birthday

We’ve celebrated Volya’s 7th birthday yesterday. We don’t know when is her real birthday, but this is what the doctor wrote in her pet passport. What we know is that she is 7. The doctor from the animal shelter, the Polish doctor who gave her the tablet so she can travel to the UK, and […]

Christmas tree decorations

I will talk in this post, Christmas tree decorations, about the new ones I got this year, most of them anyway. Last year I mentioned a few of them, I will link below. We’ve put the tree in our new conservatory. It looks wonderful there. While the conservatory is not completely finished, we need to […]

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Christmas 2024

As per tradition, I will share a few highlights from our Christmas, this year. I already talked about the Christmas tree, but I’ve included a picture of it again. Following the tradition, we both got each other 25 gifts, one for each day. This year I picked a lot of socks, from Ukraine (the avocado […]

baubles

Christmas tree

Our Christmas tree had a transformation this year. I shared on the left a picture from last year, with the white & purple baubles. On the right is the Christmas tree from this year. The purple baubles will be donated to a charity and the white ones are joined by different sizes, colours, and shapes […]

Birthday in Ukraine

I’ve celebrated my birthday in Ukraine this year. The plan was to go to London, but when my husband asked me what I really want to do, my reply was that I would like to go to Lviv, so we went there instead. We’ve spent 5 days in Lviv in which we did, in total, […]

Restaurants

Goals for 2022. How I did.

It’s time for: Goals for 2022. How I did. It is a mix bag, but I’m happy. I want to push myself a bit, but I’m not stressed if I can’t do one of them. These goals are for fun. Goals for 2022: Blogs 1. Post regularly. Goals included to post all book reviews on […]

Christmas gifts

Christmas 2022

Christmas this year must have been one of the most curious ones, mainly because of the gifts we bought to each other, my husband and I. As usual, we went for an advent-calendar type of gifts, ranging from some chocolate or the strangest one I got – mix of nails (more on that in the […]

Carol of the Bells

Carol of the Bells

Carol of the Bells or Toll of the Bells is Ukrainian, something I found out recently. I thought it would be interesting to know about it. Read about the song’s story in this article or watch the first clip. This is the short story of Mykola Leontovych’s Shtshedryk. It was performed in US 100 years […]

Christmas tree

Christmas 2021

I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas, if they celebrated, of course. I am sharing highlights, as I do each year. This is our tree, at the beginning of the month. This year too we had an advent-calendar gift giving, 25 gifts for each day instead of bigger gifts at Christmas. We both love this […]