Hello everyone!

Hello everyone!

I'm Irene and welcome to my shiny new blog.

Despite being called Irene, I'm not actually a little old lady. I'm in my mid-30s. It's a family name and I've' grown to love it, although most people do tend to call me ReeNee which has been a nickname since childhood. I've always been jealous of my little sister's name, Beatrice. She's known as Bee but always wanted to be Trixie; however it never took. Bee and Ree, that's us.

I live in Greater London with my boyfriend Nick and work as an Executive Assistant for the senior leadership team of a medical research facility. I have a BSc in Food Science & Nutrition, and the plan was to be a nutritionist but it turns out I'm really good at organising other people.

I am a huge bookworm, and love cozy mysteries. I'm currently re-reading a favourite series; the Aurora Teagarden Mysteries by Charlaine Harris. I also love the Hallmark movie series. And most things Hallmark, to be perfectly honest with you, especially the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. As well as Aurora Teagarden, I love the Garage Sale Mysteries. You can expect a lot of talk about those things here.

I also enjoy cooking, organisation and snuggling up with the boyfriend for a Netflix binge - if we can ever decide what to watch, because we have vastly different tastes. I am a Harry Potter nerd and have cats called Helga and Rowena. I love yoga, mindfulness & meditation. I enjoy writing and receiving letters, jigsaw puzzles, crosswords, wordsearches etc.

I've always wanted to try blogging so here I am!

VE Day Picnic

We had a lovely afternoon with our own little VE Day/Bank Holiday celebration.

There were supposed to be proper official celebrations going on in the park but obviously with everything happening right now, they didnt. Some people in our road were having a social distanced street arty but Nick & I weren't feeling particularly social so we didn't join them.

Instead, we bought a bunch of picnic food from our local supermarket - quiche, mini pork pies, cocktail sausages, mini scotch eggs, mini sausage rolls, carrot sticks, sandwiches, cakes, some fizz... I'm not sure how many people we were trying to feed. But we sat/lay on a blanket in our garden, enjoying the sunshine and celebrating our freedom.

And it was lovely. I'm hoping the weather stays nice over the weekend so we can repeat it!