New Year….New Anything?

Snapdragons in the garden

Well it’s 2025. I feel like last year both went quickly and was one of the longest years of my life; I can honestly say it was very tiring, very draining and speaking with friends, it seemed an across the board feeling for most. It may have been because Pluto was making its last rounds of Capricorn before moving into Aquarius, or it could have been the very mundane but no less hard cost of living crisis that has smacked us all in the face (and the bank balance). And rounding out what was a very exhausting year, my partner and I both contracted the spicy cough the week before Christmas for the first time ever (thankfully we tested negative the day before Christmas). He is recovering fairly decently, he’s occasionally tired but unfortunately due to long standing immune issues, the recovery process for me has been a lot slower so the end of the year and the start of the New Year more or less matched. I can honestly say that the people who have had this more than once, I feel for you because once has flattened me out and it’s really affected me.

The end of last year didn’t quite go to plan, I still haven’t written my first ‘Smash or Trash’ book review, my YouTube has been very quiet and I haven’t posted much on here. Between markets, the hot weather coming in hard and fast and then getting sick, not much has been going on here. I’m not sure if I will do a Summer garden tour yet – and if I do it may not be til next month when hopefully the weather cools. The garden is looking a little rough at the moment because of the weather and illness, I’m mostly just keeping things alive and going with maintaining instead of adding to it. I’ve lost a few plants because of the weather and not being as present in the garden as I could have been had I not been sick. But moving into this year, I hope that I can continue doing some garden videos, I might even do some at the cottage depending on how I go. I will definitely push myself to finish the first book in the Smash or Trash series, my mind hasn’t really been in to doing it and I will definitely try to blog more. I’m taking the first couple of weeks of the year just to allow myself to heal, to hopefully shake the remnants of Covid and get myself into a better headspace.

My New Year was pretty good though, my nephew stayed with us and we took him to the fireworks with some friends; it was a nice night and the show was pretty decent. Other than that, the start to my New Year has been fairly quiet not that I mind, I like the quiet. I’ve not made any new year resolutions because I suck at keeping them but I do have some goals that I am not pressuring myself to achieve because if I do, I won’t. Hopefully this year can see The Country Witch’s Cottage grow and I can bring you more from this witch’s life and practice.

I hope you all had a wonderful start to the year and I hope that 2025 brings you blessings, peace and happiness.