What I have loved this week! Week 20. #FridayFavourites

Happy Friday! I hope you’ve had a good week. Mine has been a really good where there’s been lots of little happy moments and things that have made me smile. As always, I’m linking up with Erika and Andrea to share them.

Remarkably Bright Creatures!

I watched the Netflix version of Remarkably Bright Creatures and loved it so much. It was just such a lovely, feel good film with loads of heart. I did not expect to get so attached to an octopus as much as I did. He had me smiling every time he was on screen and crying a little. It was like a big hug in movie form!

Remarkably Bright Creatures is about an older woman called Tova who works cleaning at an aquarium after losing her son years earlier. She is lonely, stuck in her routine and still carrying a lot of sadness. While working there, she ends up forming an unlikely friendship with Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus. At the same time, a young man called Cameron arrives in town looking for answers about his past and where he belongs. The story follows all of them as their lives slowly connect together.

Lunch out with Stu!

It nearly ended in disaster. All the tables were full at our usual place, so Stu suggested going to the other side of the retail park and trying somewhere new. I was hangry and decided we should go to another shop and then go back to our usual place! Thankfully, it had cleared and there were lots of tables to choose from. It was such a nice lunch. My usual from Costa: a bacon bap, lemon muffin and chocolate fudge frappe.

Greys Anatomy!

I watched the last episode of the season and a couple of characters were leaving and they did a little montage of clips which got me thinking about the early episodes, which then turned into the thought that I must watch Grey's Anatomy again, all 22 seasons! I forgot how young they all were in the first season but I suppose it was 20-something years ago! My girls asked me why I was doing it to myself, they know I will end up crying and I already have. I will get attached to characters all over again only for terrible things to happen to them. I still love Cristina so much and George was so sweet in those first episodes.

My eldest decluttering her bedroom!

Becky has started properly sorting through her bedroom and I am so happy about it. She has been thinking about moving out and getting her own place eventually. She’s not in any rush but she has been looking and thinking about the future. With a little nudge and a little bit of nagging from me, she realised she really needed to start sorting through all the stuff in her room because there is a lot! She filled four bags with clothes, a whole bag full of teddies and a box of keepsakes to go into storage. There is still loads left to do but she’s finally started and that’s the hardest part sometimes.

Old photos!

My dad showed me a ton of old photos that he was recently given by a relative and they brought back so many memories from when I was a kid. One photo that really made me smile was one of the little red dumper truck my brother and I used to drive around the farm. We loved that thing and probably caused far more trouble with it than we should have.

I remember my brother being too small to properly reach the pedals at one point but that didn’t stop us. Health and safety definitely wasn’t a thing back then. hehehe One time we tied a go-cart to the back of the dumper truck with a rope and skidded around the fields on it when the grass was a bit wet. Looking back now, it was so dangerous but at the time it was the best fun ever. It only stopped after the rope snapped and my brother went crashing through a fence. Oops. Somehow he was fine apart from a few scrapes and probably a good telling off. lol

Football!

The football season is nearly over and everything is getting a bit exciting now. I always love the end of the season because every match is so important. The battles at the top of the Premier League table and at the bottom have been so entertaining to watch and every fan seems stressed out at the moment. Over the past week I’ve also been keeping an eye on the EFL Championship play-offs which have been full of drama. Our local team, Hull are through to the finals and in with a chance of promotion, which is exciting and my childhood local team didn’t have such a great result but there’s still a bit of hope because the team they were playing against have been accused of spying on them and now there’s going to be an investigation and Middlesbrough could end up taking their place in the final. I love all the drama. Eek!

What have you loved over the past week?