My December 2021 Monthly Wrap Up – Festivities, Birthdays, & Bookish Fun!

Hello, my lovelies and welcome to my December 2021 monthly wrap up post.

What have I been up to this month?

It was my birthday!!! 🎉🎈 I’m now in the Fifty Club. 😘 I didn’t have a big party or celebrate with any pre-arranged event – I did, however, spend a wonderful day with Hubby and our daughters. It was lovely. Plus, we had the obligatory Chinese takeaway for our dinner. Yummy!

Christmas was certainly better than last year – we saw both sets of parents. Christmas day my folks came for lunch and on Boxing Day we had Hubby’s round.

Coronavirus COVID-19 is still lurking about and the new variant – omicron- is keeping us on our toes! Do you know anyone who has had it? I do, he’s very ill in hospital.😥 Here in the UK, our immunisation programme is getting an extra push, Vaccinations have been offered to everyone aged 12 and over.

• First dose
  89.4% (51,425,763 people)
• Second dose
  81.7% (46,965,009 people)
• Booster or third dose
  47.2% (27,156,276 people)

My family and I have had all the doses offered. WoopWoop! The UK government are recommending that we all still take precautions, although there are still rumours of another National Lockdown.

In bloggish news…

Sorry about the sporadic blog hopping. I’m sticking to my screen schedule – it’s now a permanent thing. The number of ocular migraines (also referred to as retinal migraines) that I’ve had this month are minimal. Woop!Woop! The only downside is that I’m now not getting the time to visit and comment on all of your fabulous blogs. I do try to make it around to as many as possible within my allotted screen-time schedule. Sorry, if you haven’t seen a like or comment on yours for a while.

Updating old posts is an ongoing process. However, it hasn’t been a priority these past few months due to my migraines. All of the reviews on the blog are SEO friendly. Thank you Yoast SEO plugin. 😉 However, there are still some older ones that I need to add to the UBB plugin.

Please continue to let me know if any pages, posts or links throughout Flora’s Musings either don’t open or you have problems with. Thanks.

What have I been posting?

Now on with the rest of my December 2021 monthly wrap up post. Feel free to click on anything that you missed this month.

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What other bookish bits and bobs were on the blog this month? 😉

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That’s it for my festive December 2021 Monthly Wrap Up. However, moving forward, what can you expect from me during the first month of the new year – January?

~ Coming up on Flora’s Musings ~

• Celebrating more New Book Releases.
• Hopefully, some author interviews, book tours and spotlight posts.
• and of course, lots of reviews!

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~ My Current Reading Challenges ~

If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ll know that I take part in the Goodreads Annual Reading Challenge but that’s not the only one I take part in. I thought that I’d use these regular wrap up posts to update you on my progress in all the challenges that I’m taking part in …

2021 Audiobook Challenge

Last year I joined the 2020 Audiobook Challenge. I enjoyed it so much that I signed up again this year.

Audiobooks have become my main format since reducing my screen time this year. I had already achieved my original goal of 50+ audio listens earlier in the year, so I decided to try to reach the 75+ level. Did I make it? Check out my Audiobook Challenge 2021 page to find out! 😘

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I’m linking up to The Sunday Post – a weekly meme hosted by the lovely Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer.

(See rules here: Sunday Post Meme)

Don’t forget to hop along to some of the other amazing blogs taking part in the Sunday Post.

Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to read my December 2021 monthly wrap up post.

I hope you enjoy the rest of your day, stay safe and healthy.

Bye for now,

Flora x