EH - Essex > Hebrides...the next step of the adventure?

Oops - well what a slacker I've been! :rotfl: And so soon into the year as well - very poor of me!

Cumbria Lass we went to all three of the upcoming beer festivals last year as well - and thoroughly enjoyed them all! :beer:

Norwich accommodation made up for the cheap one for Derby as the Premier Inn there is always a pricey one annoyingly. It's central, convenient, and the parking isn't too expensive on top though, so we stick with it. I've also now booked some accommodation for a trip we're making later in the year which amusingly cost almost the same for 2 nights as Norwich cost for 1! :rotfl: Oh well! Still need to book my Derby travel and I can do that now as I know what times others are planning to get there. :T

Shopping at the weekend stayed within limits - £20 in ThaT supermarkeT which included 2 boxes of cereal for MrEH as it was on offer. £7 odd in Al's for stuff that would have cost me nearly £2 more had I bought it in T's. :T Then £15 in the Farm Shop on Sunday but that doesn't come from the regular food budget - about £10 of it was beer, and we also got the oranges for this year's marmalade making session which commenced last night. :T I gather from MrEH that he can't make the second batch until he gets some more jars from the garage, but this also means that all the jars that were cluttering the shelf up are now back in use so hurrah for that!

Further spendiness on Sunday was on the clothing side - needed a new sports bra as my old one is a) a bit too big now and b) wasn't as supportive as it might have been when it was newer . Found that the shop at the outlet village had a Buy One Get another half price offer on their already discounted prices so got myself 2 x Shock Absorber Ultimate Run Bras for £45 which I was happy with. Also bought my new pair of walking shoes (same style as my current pair so I know they work for me) for £30, and grabbed a pair of cropped trousers in Weird Fish reduced to £16 - I'm painfully aware that when summer hits I'm going to be back in the position of having almost no clothes that fit so it seems sensible to grab decent stuff at a good price when I see it. :T

My challenge to exercise every day this month is still on track I'm pleased to say - and, guess what? On Saturday I completed the Couch to 5K programme AND ran my first parkrun! :T:T:T SO pleased with myself - I really never thought that was anything I'd be able to do just a few months ago and now I am - amazing feeling! I've also been doing lots of walking, quite a lot of short High Intensity sessions, have been sticking to going to the gym once a week and generally doing quite a lot of moving. :T

All good then - this week is a quiet one until the weekend - I'm planning to run tonight and probably Thursday, and gym tomorrow, then hoping the weather stays good enough that I can head to Scampton on Friday - not been up for ages! Saturday I might do parkrun again - we'll see, and on Sunday MrEH and I are popping into London for the Festival of Light thing which was excellent when we went back in 2016 so we're looking forward to that! We'll get lunch somewhere up there as well so there WILL be spendiness!