A cosy New Year catch-up to ease us into 2026!
In this video I’m chatting about what I got up to over Christmas, sharing some lovely gifts I received, talking through my garden plans for the year ahead and rounding things off with my ins & outs for 2026.
No pressure, no big resolutions – just gentle plans and setting the tone for the year ahead.
Pop the kettle on and settle in for the chats.
Let me know in the comments what your ins & outs are for 2026.
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21 Comments
Thanks for sharing your plans for this year, I love your excitement when you talk about your garden….and that cheeky glance up when you mentioned not buying seeds! I find your chats so relaxing and insightful. X
Happy New Year. The years are going by too quick. We were late taking down the Christmas decor. I wanted to enjoy the christmas tree a week more lol I'm trying to not go on the phone during the night when I should be sleeping. Also looking forward to sowing lots of seeds. Then, today, I'm just going to try grow rosemary from cuttings on the kitchen window in a little pot. So I'll have some hopefully for stuffing next Christmas. I already have thyme and sage. I'm looking forward to been out in the garden this year lol and every year ❤
Good morning Karen! When you said you were having a big birthday coming up, I thought you were gonna say you were turning 40! You look super good 50 is great I’m 68 😂 I also love your long hair. I think it looks really nice. Glad to see you posting again. ❤❤❤❤
Wow those are some great goals. I´m almost three years behind you – happy that someone is going in front of me up to the big 50. 😁 One of my goals is to nourish and express my creativity (I neglegted that so much for a long time). This morning right before your video showed up I painted a little watercolour art for my sweet granddaughter (she is 2). Hopefully she will love it. It was so nice to paint – but boy do I need practice. I had not much luck with the things I grew in the garden last year – we will see about 2026. Happy new year to you! 💕
Happy new year Karen can’t believe your birthday 🎂 you certainly don’t look that age I really thought you was in your thirties ! it’s because you look after your self lv Irene 😘 xx
Happy New Year! I really hope this year will be better harvest wise but so far the big Storm Goretti broke a hoop in my greenhouse. Not a good start of the gardening season. I am too cutting out on social media as too much of it brings on Migraines. I will be 50 in December 2027 but I feel younger in my head too, though moving around is getting tougher.
I always enjoy your enthusiasm when you post. It appears you have some very positive changes coming. I am looking forward to your upcoming content. You nailed a particular statement. Only video the things you love doing. I can not image being a content creator. However, it comes through when people post just to put out a video. Or like you, you post doing things you are passionate about. I prefer that. Have a wonderful weekend. God bless.
You look vibrant and glowing! Your smile is even in your eyes ❤. So glad to see how excited you are for this new season. I'm going to make an in and out list today thank you for the inspiration! 🌺
Happy New Year! Do you miss your holiday skylight decor? Do you think you’ll put something up there from time to time to celebrate a season?
My jaw just hit the ground ! I was expecting your significant birthday to be the big ‘40’ !
What you have to pay tax on someone else's products wow that's crazy.
I like the foundation/ makeup you're wearing today 😍
It is so nice to see you again 🙂 I have thought about this so many times when I have been watching your videos, you look a lot like Lisa Kudrow🙂
Hi good to see you back. Love bee sunbathers. Have you sorted the greenhouse water . Xxxx
Thank you for sharing ❤❤❤😊😊😊
Happy Birthday, you look great. When I listen to you it makes me laugh a little, I'm 64 and I have these moments of I'm going to change this, that and the other, and yes sometimes it works and other times no. I call it old age ADHD, keep going but be easy on yourself.
Good morning & Happy New year (not too late to say that!) I loved hearing all about your Christmas, and your plans for the new year. You said a couple years ago about using a positive word rather than make resolutions, your word was Determination. I stopped making resolutions years ago too, but I liked the idea of a positive word and I stole your word of Determination. I post on FB every day and I always finish with Onwards & Upwards with Determination, but will put a word in front of Determination according to the time of year or how I am feeling. I might say with Fesitive Determination, or with Positive Determination. My intention was to change the word each year, but my son said he liked that determined post each day, so I kept that word and I live with it every day now, and I love it and I try and remain deternined each day, so thank you for that, and I thought you might like to know that. As for gardening, my current garden has been too much for me and HUbby for a few years we are both in our mid to late 60's not old but I have mobility issues. However we are about to move to a new build and I have a much saller garden plus no front garden either, and I am so excited to plan, and make it a happy place which is easier to maintain and work in for us both. I am so pleased to hear you are making time for yourself, I watch some YT people work their socks off and it must be so exhausting. YT should be like any other job, you do what you have to but at the end of the day, you should be able to close the door on it and spend time with your family and most importantly more time for yourself also. I like your idea of your lists too and I might pinch that idea as well if you don't mind! List one will be what I want this year and list two what I don't want and how can I change some things for the better to suit me and not the whole world! Thank you so much I shall be watching your Vlogs and no doubt pinching gardening ideas as well! If I can get a small Greenhouse in my new garden that would be the icing on the cake for me! Good Luck in all that you do this year and I will be tuning in on a regular basis x
Happy New Year Karen.
How exciting it all sounds.
I am looking forward to a more positive 2026 after loosing my dad last April 2025 was a roller coaster of emotions his house had to be sold but he had a seperate garden which i have inherited finally signed over just befor Christmas so i am determind this year to overhaul and update and make it a place that the family can come and enjoy and also remember him. So will be watching for ideas 🎉🎉❤❤
Karen you must have got it wrong! There is no way you are going to be 50! You don't even look 40 x
It's going to be lovely to see your garden evolve this year and your enthusiasm is infectious especially for seed sowing ! 😊❤
I can't wait to see your garden and ideas!!