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My 2023 in Review

31/01/2024
My 2023 Year in Review

One of my favourite ways to reflect on the year just gone is to fill in an annual quiz and review my answers from the year before. Here’s a brief look at my 2023 in review. Hello 2024! I don’t know if it’s just me but I feel like the last few months of 2023 basically went by in a blink of an eye. I felt like as…

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The songs that changed my life

03/02/2021
An image of a concert with the lyrics 'Don't stop listening to rock and roll' scribbled across the front. The concert is The Maine, an artist who wrote one of the many songs that changed my life.

Music is one of my biggest passions in life: unfortunately not making music (I wish I had that talent, but alas, I don’t!), but discovering new music, going to live shows and just feeling things when I listen to certain songs. It’s no surprise that there are songs that changed my life. Music is really special like that. A simple song can have such an effect on you…

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PERSONAL | Week One of working from home

27/03/2020
Formidable Joy | UK Lifestyle & Travel Blog | Personal | Week One of working from home | Working From Home | WFH | Freelancing

As I write this (on Friday 20th), I have officially been working from home for one entire week. We do not know when we will be returning to the office which is a very weird feeling – but as so many of us are in the same boat (yet we are all in different circumstances – some of us are already freelancing, others self-isolating as opposed to being…

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LIFESTYLE | January etc

30/01/2020
Formidable Joy | UK Lifestyle & Travel Blog | Lifestyle | January etc

Welcome to my new feature! My blog has always been a lifestyle blog at heart and I’ve never had any issues with sharing personal posts about my life – what I’ve been up to, my thoughts and feelings on things or even my dating life! I want to make sure this element of my blog is one thing that never changes, and so I’m launching a monthly life…

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LIFESTYLE | Welcome, 2020

06/01/2020

Welcome, 2020. It’s good to meet you at last! It’s weird to think that the last ten years have passed with so many changes and yet looking back now, it almost feels like the time between 2010 and 2020 took place in the blink of an eye! I couldn’t start blogging again (after a welcome extended break) without a post about the last decade – even though as…