Merry Christmas! ~my final post for the year

 

Merry Christmas friends! Here Paul and I are at his Christmas do. The venue and the tree were just gorgeous.

I’m wearing my Lauren Ralph Lauren dress I bought from Macy’s last time we were in Hawaii a couple of years ago. I love it!

 

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The Cat Coach Cafe podcast I was on last month with the lovely Monie, has a Christmas special out where me and other guests share their Christmas favourites and how they celebrate with their cats, plus our New Year’s wish for them and Christmas wishes.

How cute does that sound? Go here to Monie’s Substack for links if you’d like to take a listen. 

 

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When I held my Black Friday sale a weeks back, I included a code for 50% off anything in my eStore.

Unfortunately I didn’t see that it had an expiry code from this time last year from my previous annual sale, so didn’t update it.

I’m so sorry if you went to purchase and the code didn’t work!

I’ve fixed it now, so have extended my eStore sale for another few weeks just in case you want to get any eBooks or eAudiobooks for the holiday season.

The code is HALFPRICEHAPPINESS and you can find my eStore at payhip.com/fionaferris.

Happy reading and apologies again! And thank you to the kind reader who emailed me with the error 😊

 

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{Summer evening sunshine on the hills, view from our lawn}

This is my last post for the year, and I’m going to take a couple of weeks off over Christmas and New Year.

I’m actually having a bit of a unique Christmas. On Christmas Eve I’ll be going into hospital for breast cancer surgery, so Christmas day will be quite different this year.

I’ve been told my cancer is small, and it was caught early through screening. Fingers crossed that remains the case after surgery.

So yes, a bit of a clanger to end the year on!

But I’m also so grateful. Grateful to live in a country like New Zealand with fully funded healthcare (and where anything to do with cancer is fast-tracked).

Grateful that it was found before I even knew there was a problem, through regular public health screening systems.

And grateful for the care I’ve received so far.

So I’ll be resting up on Christmas Day happy to have my surgery behind me. I am apprehensive, but also optimistic and feeling positive.

If you’ve had a big health diagnosis this year I’m right there beside you, and if you haven’t, yay for that. Health is the real wealth 😊

I’ll see you in a few weeks and I hope you have a fabulous and wonderful holiday period. Please have a glass of champagne for me on New Year’s Eve!

With all my love, Fiona