Into 2026 we go!

 

A seat with a view - Sheringham

Happy new year  - I wonder what 2026 has in store for us all? 

As usual, no New Year’s resolutions here - the closest I will get will be some planning in my notebook and some intentions set out. There won’t be umpteen new habits, a diet that smells of sadness, or a “New Year, New Me!” plan that’s guaranteed to make me feel like I’ve failed by February 1st! 

There are some odds and ends I would like to do - for a start to work on my fitness a bit more - firstly by getting back to some regular yoga again. My lovely pal Jenni over at Not Really A Farm did a fantastic challenge during December of starting her day with Yoga - often by candlelight - and I’m in awe! The only thing I can usually manage to consistently do first thing in the morning is to have a cup of tea, so I certainly won’t be making any plans to copy her, but I would like to get back to doing some regular stretching and flexibility work again, and for me, structured plans often work best, so I will have a look for a suitable monthly programme to start me off - very possibly something from Yoga With Adriene on YouTube.

Later today we will be sitting down to revisit our financial goals for the year, something we always do at this point in the year. Talking things through means we can ensure we are both on the same page with our plans, and that we are both happy with the money that goes into our various savings pots each month as well. That in turn streamlines things through the year - and means we can make the best possible use of our funds. 

We’ve got various plans already for this year - with more time available to us now that the Great British Beer Festival is no more, we want to get back to doing more regular camping trips, I’m hoping to squeeze in a few more air shows, and we already have some fun stuff planned with friends too including a trip to York to help a close friend celebrate a milestone birthday. As usual we’ll be heading off to the Hebrides later in the year, and we intend  to get back to a Cornwall for the first time in a few years too.

We also have plans to get at least one major job done on the house this year - hopefully this will be replacing the rather perilous front steps, although depending on how things go through the timer it could turn out to need to be the roof - we’ll have to wait and see on that one! Like so many of these sorts of tasks the biggest step will be in deciding exactly what is to be done, and by who - we need to take a deep breath and get started I think, and once we have started I suspect it will become far less scary! 

I’m intending to start the year with a bit of a financial reset and challenge - prompted by the two groaningly full freezers and an expensive month on the food front in December - I’m going to get things planned out in my head (and very possibly that notebook!) and will get a blog post sorted on it once that’s happened though - as we all know, writing it here = accountability! 

Robyn