🍿 It's the start/end of the year, so here's my annual round-up of all the films and TV shows I've watched in 2025.

🎆 Quiet night in for New Year's Eve; watching movies, Jools Holland's Hootenanny, and the London fireworks on the telly. Ordered in pizza 🍕

🎯 We had a competition at archery this week. 6 ends, scoring for the first time. I definitely do better under pressure! 2nd out of 11 people 🥳

🎰 Went to bingo for the first time in my life (work outing). It was really good fun! Cheap prices at the bar too. Didn't win anything but some people were winning thousands. I'll go again! 😂 👨‍🦳

🃏 Poker league final on Saturday. 8 players, I went in with a four-point lead. I needed to finish 5th to clinch it. Ended up winning the whole damn thing (4th win of the season) after a dramatic heads-up with Harry 🥳 🏆️

🃏 Poker league night on Saturday. Finished 7th out of 9 but somehow still managed to extend my lead in the championship by another point. New rival has moved into 2nd place, but they're 4 points behind with only one game left to play. Tense 😂

🎃 Halloween at work so we dressed up our desks... and ourselves 🧟‍♂️

🃏 Poker league night on Saturday. Went into game 10 tied for the lead with Harry. Managed to take the win! Katey took 2nd, so we properly cleaned up. Now 3 points clear at the top of the league with two games to play.

💉 Flu jab done – yay vaccines! 👍️

⚽️ Was supposed to be watching Katey's son Tobey referee a football match on Saturday morning but the game was postponed due to Storm Amy rolling in 🌧️ ☹️

💼 First full week in the new job, on the floor with my team 👊

🎟️ Jaws (1975) 50th Anniversary IMAX screening ★★★★½

🃏 Played in our monthly poker league on Saturday. Not great on my part: finished 8th out of 9 players. Somehow still top (now joint) of the leaderboard with three to go 🤷🏻‍♂ Katey, however, crushed it with a royal flush 🔥

🍺 Went to the pub for a pay-day pint after work with my new colleagues

🃏 Played in our monthly poker league on Saturday; only six people this time, finished second. Extended my lead by four points with four games to go.

🧯 Completed the Fire and Bomb Warden training at work. Scored 100% on the test, so I can now officially put out fires with the correct extinguisher and defuse bombs. Maybe… 💣️💥

🥈 Celebrated my great-nephew’s 2nd birthday 🍰 🥳

🃏 Home poker league game, monthly tournament; 8 players, finished 3rd, moved to the top of the league!

🏋🏻‍♂ Last week’s weight loss: –0.6 kg

💼 Started doing prep for the new job

📚 Cambridge Latin Course I, Ch. 3 ✅

🍔 Tried a smash burger from a place nearby called Arnie’s — outrageously good! 😋 I’ll be back…