This morning it's my pleasure to welcome blogger Anne Williams to the blog for the latest Festive Fun with... feature.
Tell us a little bit about yourself.
I’ve been blogging about books at Being Anne for almost nine years now - and have over 11,000 followers (which always rather amazes me!). Originally from a village near Bangor in North Wales, I now live in Wetherby in West Yorkshire, and took early retirement seven years ago to do everything I enjoy – including reading and reviewing as many books as I possibly can, and indulging myself with exotic holidays. Life did change rather a few years ago, when I became carer for my mother: the travel had to stop for a while, but nothing can come between me and the reading. My blog won the Best Pal award at the Annual Bloggers’ Bash for three years running, and I was over the moon to win the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Media Star of the Year award in 2019.
What are you most looking forward to this Christmas?
Last Christmas was a particularly difficult one - I’d lost my mum in July, and as it drew closer I was dreading it a little. Also, I really wasn’t very well. So this Christmas, I’m very much looking forward to enjoying it again. I’ll be spending it on my own (not “alone” - that always sounds so sad and miserable!), my lounge decorated like a Christmas grotto - I’ll open the presents I’m giving myself, cook myself a spectacular traditional dinner, and watch back-to-back Christmas movies on Netflix. Perfect!
If you could choose one person, dead or alive, to celebrate a one time special Christmas with, who would you choose and why?
It really has to be my mum, doesn’t it?
