Booktok got to me. I finally caved and decided to start to read the infamous fairy spice all over tiktok and instagram.

A court of Thorns and Roses – by Sarah J. Maas

So here are my thoughts…

It’s actually not as cringey as I was expecting myself to feel reading it. It was fairly immersive into the world.

Tamlin though… He has no game… his compliment that she looked clean? Really? I mean seriously that is all he had? The biggest eyerolls.

It was reminiscent to me of Beauty and the Beast, if the books were art, the beast was a fairy and the witch was just a wicked bitch.

Not sure why people describe the books as spicey spicey, I have a feeling the rest of the series will tell me why.

Feyre- Thank you to the author so much for really spelling out how the name is pronounced because I definitely didn’t have it sounding like that at first glance.

Small spoilers below in terms of thoughts about the story and questions I have going into reading the next book.

Just a small handful of photos here.

So we celebrated our second wedding anniversary with family before we went on a little day trip to Birsay. Sadly the causeway meant no mini island exploring but we will try again when the tide allows.

It was a beautiful view with rainbows and such.

The walk left me in a bit of a bust cycle for a few days especially with my knees so I am having to be more careful not to keep causing massive bust cycles like this. The boom and bust days are something I am having to learn to manage, like being more careful with my spoons. New location, new weather, means having to learn the new limits to what I can reasonably manage in a day. The variability of the weather all in one day is astounding so it means learning to adjust every five minutes it feels like. I am sure I will get a rhythm sorted one day, hopefully soon.

I know they say moving is a lifestyle choice up here. In a way I respect that it is, but it’s a soul choice. It’s a hell of an adjustment and there’s always so much to do and get done, it just feels different to down south.

So we’re now at the middle of February in our Journey roughly.

Safe to say it was spent settling in and viewing the sights.

Yes, there was more snow. It made for incredible pictures and quite often it was breath taking. We took a few photos of our favourite views.

We have discovered a massive difference in the food quality here vs London’s supermarkets. Here it is certainly fresher and tastier, food tastes brighter almost singing. It’s very hard to describe just how different the quality is here. It’s certainly enjoyable.

I will try my best to slow down the photo dumps.

So the first week in February, for a break in the mountain of unpacking we had to accomplish we ventured to go to see the light festival where “The travelling light circus” were a part of the action.

The toddler thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing especially the fire dancers!

Although the unhealthy part of my brain was trying to convince myself that I could totally take up fire dancing and not get any injuries or accidents… I won’t be taking up the hobby myself.

It was all very fun and exciting.