Goodbye 2025

Some big and little moments from last year

My word for 2025 was freedom. I was craving adventure, spontaneity, exploration and more freedom with my time. It was an incredible year absolutely filled to the brim with joy and celebration and I could not feel luckier.

Here is just a teeny tiny glimpse at some amazing moments - big and small.

• The year of the wedding 💒 I was lucky enough to attend 8 weddings (9 if you count a fake one we threw for some friends whose wedding we couldn’t attend; complete with an Almost Married cake and suits & dresses from the op shop). I already feel so sad that I’ll probably never have that many weddings again. I LOVE weddings. I cry at every single one and honestly nothing makes you feel happier and more grateful to be alive than to watch your best friends get married, then drink a hundred glasses of champagne, listen to people say the nicest and most thoughtful words they’ll probably ever say and then scream your heart out on a dance floor.

• I ran a half marathon!

• Started playing tennis weekly on a Monday - we’re barely improving but the goss and catch ups have been top notch

• Saturday morning Swim, Brunch & Quiz Club™️ became the sweetest and now permanent tradition

• Spent two and half months living and working remotely from London and Europe… are you kidding me! A once in a lifetime opportunity that really does show if you want to do something, you should just ask…

• Some extra, extra special highlights from this trip (it was all amazing 😭)

  • Drinking martinis in New York (manifesting living there at some point), visiting Boston and visiting Nantucket

  • A girls long weekend to Marseille to celebrate Maddie’s hens-not-hens

  • Being back in London and lime biking to a pub somewhere East at about 6pm when it’s 25 degrees and you’ve got another 4 hrs of sunshine and you’re about to have a drink with an old friend on the footpath

  • Riding on the back of a motorbike through Ponza in Italy and drinking perfect aperol spritzes

  • Staying at Teranka Hotel in Formentera (my birthday present!) - hands down nicest place I’ve ever stayed

  • A solo trip to Greece on the way home

• Coming back from Europe and ending the lease on our old flat which I felt like a ungrateful person for always whinging about but turns out it actually was a sh*thole and now j’adore our new apartment which is full of light instead of road noise & mould <3

• Had a truly joyful experience listening to the book I Regret Almost Everything by Keith McNally, my favourite book of the year

• Finished 12 weeks of The Artist’s Way and did a 4 week writing course

• Successfully stuck to what I have named my Hair Health Journey by not colouring and actually growing out my hair! Turns out bleaching your hair really does damage it. Miss being properly blonde though ❤️‍🩹

• Went to Byron Bay on our Annual Girls Trip with my oldest friends

• All of the hens, pregnancies, promotions, engagements and new babies that I was privileged enough to witness and celebrate

• Topped it off with the most wholesome offline 2 week holiday in NZ, post coming on that soon 😌

Writing this has made me feel so insanely grateful (and kinda boastful but we persist) . Thank you so much for reading. I hope you’ve had a calm and joyful start to your year.

Going to try & post even more on substack this year. Keep me accountable!

See you in the next one.