Cheery's buttling diary: tea in one hand, plant pot in the other, running shoes on

Cheery_Daff

I'd completely forgotten about the pygmy goats Greying! :j :j Hope you found them cheerful and obligingly cute

Ask for Skegness - yep, it was pretty much as I expected :rotfl: Tacky, noisy, lots of doughnut stands and drunk people :rotfl: But also nice spacious beach and a cheery pier with free deckchairs to lounge around in all day :j :j

Oh, and that cafe that I said was cordoned off in the morning? Some woman apparently stabbed two blokes in it the night before :eek:

http://www.skegnessstandard.co.uk/news/local/update-neighbouring-shopkeepers-express-shock-after-woman-arrested-and-two-men-stabbed-in-skegness-1-6833411

:eek: only about an hour after we finished our dinner so I'm glad we went straight back to the hotel as that's the road we walked down! :eek:

Well done on your pilate-ing RT :j :j Excellent work I am pleased to announce I did Shred (day 3) this morning (and then went straight back to bed :rotfl: ), and have also drunk most of my water (well, I put some squash in it...). Can't remember my third goal for today... Oh! No cake! Which I have also achieved :j (although I did have a teeny tiny milky bar ice cream - but I didn't say 'no ice cream' so it doesn't count :rotfl: )

Cheery day here Shred and then lounging, and then we took the foldy bikes to the park and cycled up through the woods - probably did about 7 miles and stopped at 2 cafes - one for tea and the other for ice cream :rotfl: Been pottering about at home ever since (dodging the GIANT thunder storm!) and now I reckon it's time for tea :j

Tomorrow's goals...

1. shred video in morning
2. running club in evening
3. only one meal involving porridge :rotfl:

Greying_Pilgrim

rtandon27 wrote: »

GP - the days of free are 1/2 a lifetime ago! (and in another country) - I think the farmers were very kind to let us students walk away with the mishapen rejects! - these days I'm just happy to score a red sticker or two (or three)! - I've fallen in love with the Sainsbug's basics range as well - such good quality for such low prices!

Oh, I appreciate that, but JO was on a few months ago - in his Friday night prog, and they were showing waste onions in a field, the farmer said that he would like to see them used (rather than rotting) and a gaggle of folk were rounded up by JO (?) to pick the leftovers. The problem still exists, it's just that either folk aren't willing to glean anymore, or farmers won't let summat go fer nowt. I'd happily take misshapen rejects for nowt

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

I'd completely forgotten about the pygmy goats Greying! :j :j Hope you found them cheerful and obligingly cute

Yes - when I looked, the longer haired one was munching on the hay byre, whilst the smaller, short-haired one was trying to scratch it's nether regions on an obliging pallet. Well, it really hadn't got the hang of spacial awareness (so it can't be a chap goat, can it? :cool:), as it couldn't quite maneuverer back enough to be in scratching distance and was therefore not getting the desired effect, :rotfl: and then when it had worked out how to go backwards and STOP when it hit something (the pallet), it couldn't quite get it's co-ordination right to wiggle it's nether regions in the right manner to achieve some relief! :rotfl: What was equally hilarious, was the way in which the long-haired hay munching goat kept on glancing across to it, in a 'what on earth are you doing?' type of way :rotfl:

Free fun

Glad you and MrCheery negotiated yourselves safely around Skeggie........ :eek:

Greying x

rtandon27

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

... Oh, and that cafe that I said was cordoned off in the morning? Some woman apparently stabbed two blokes in it the night before ... :eek: only about an hour after we finished our dinner so I'm glad we went straight back to the hotel as that's the road we walked down! ...

:eek:Yikes!:eek:


So glad both of you are safe & sound!!!!!

Cheery_Daff

:rotfl: those poor goats, how undignified to have it all captured on camera! :rotfl:

I'm VERY glad we decided to stay in the hotel room all evening! :eek:

Februarycat

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Afternoon all :hello:

I promise I'll stop with all this talk of coils and doctor visits now

We went to Skegness :j Just for one night, less than 24 hours in the end :rotfl: I've never been, and always wanted to go and see

Well, now I've seen :rotfl: We got a 'discount' room at The Grand, £74.50 instead of £83 - not exactly much of a discount but not too bad for 2 of us on a July Friday night with breakfast included and a sea view :j :j

In fact, MORE than a sea view, because we were opposite the park, where some kind of festival was going on, so we got to watch somee mad cabaret things, someone doing hand stands on TOP of the stage, a man with a GIANT balloon, which at some point he got completely inside of (how?! Quite impressive ) and, rather excitingly, we got to watch the entire performance of this:

http://www.withoutwalls.uk.com/carousel/

from the comfort of our hotel room's giant chairs and giant window, with the sea in the background

There's a little video snippet here, but it doesn't really do it justice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4456m5rVVQ

I very much enjoyed it! :j

Not a bad weekend spendy-wise either.

£74.50 hotel
£2.45 chip butty when we got there :rotfl:
£25 curry (probably left a bigger than usual tip, I was in holiday extravagant mode)
£6 beer and on-offer cans of G&T :rotfl:
£12 lunch and tea

= £120 ish for the pair of us (plus diesel, of course, but that comes from the normal diesel budget for the month as it was only about 80 miles each way)

Not tooooo bad. And a MUCH needed break.

Mind you - not the most sophisticated of breaks - we nearly wandered into a street fight while looking for somewhere to eat last night, and ended up surrounded by several police cars. Then we saw a man weeing in the street near the restaurant (nice. Woke up in the middle of the night by someone in the next room being violently sick. (and again by a giant thunderstorm), and then this morning one of the cafes had been entirely cordoned off by the police! :eek:

:rotfl:

Home now and having a nice rest

You were not far from me at lovely Skeggy , we use to go regularly there when ds was little as my parents had a caravan there so a cheap holiday for us. I heard about the stabbing there the other day, we use to walk along that road back to the caravan and always felt safe. Did you go to Natureland? We always use to take ds there.

Cheery_Daff

:hello: hi Februarycat

We didn't go to Natureland actually! Did see an advert but by the time we'd lounged around on the deckchairs all morning it was time to go home :rotfl:

Nothing to report today - YNAB all done and tallied :j banks checked (nothing happened since yesterday), working at home so only spends likely to be £1 for running club later on :j

Cheery_Daff

Hmm - £1 for running club, £3.19 on fruit and yogurt at the co op and £12 on a takeaway :eek: :rotfl:

Ah well, poor Mr Cheery has been moving tubs and packing boxes and sorting out all day and we just couldn't face clearing the kitchen enough to actually cook in it!

I made my three goals today :j Well, I swapped Shred for pilates as my back was hurting and needed a good stretch, did 5k at running club tonight, and only ate one meal of porridge :j

Tomorrow...? Hmm, I'm in the office and a friend is coming round for tea so likely won't get chance for Shred or pilates unless she leaves really early...

1. cycle all four bits of the journey to work (including up the hill from the station at the end of the day!)
2. don't buy any extra food at work (I have 3 apples, 2 yogurts, 2 mini bags of Aproved Foods banana chips and dried fruit, and half of tonight's takeaway so shouldn't need extra! :rotfl: )
3. Drink at least 2 bottles of water

That'll do

Karmacat

That's good, Cheery!

And oh my word, I'm just reading back about Skegness ... eek! Those East Coast resorts always fascinate me, though the closest I've been is Harrogate a million years ago. I only learned about Dracula recently, but as a teenager I heard about DH Lawrence going to one or the other of them on holidays. Oh. Mablethorpe, I just googled. Lincolnshire. Sorry, waffling! But I think of it anyway, even though the connection is only in my head :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

rtandon27

Oh Cheery you are doing so well with your three challenges!:T:T:T So impressed by your efforts!

My exercise today was 1/2 hour walk at lunch - but yesterday was a washout! - Must try harder:o - will attempt to do pilates tomorrow by coming home from work a bit earlier!

Cheery_Daff

Good luck with your pilates RT! :j :j I always think with these things you don't have to be perfect - even if all you do is do them more than you did before that's good progress

Speaking of which, I near enough met mine but didn't do the final cycle up the hill, sneaked on the bus instead But otherwise I wouldn't have made it home in time for my friend, that's my excuse!

Harrogate isn't very close at all KC! But probably FAR more civilised than Skegness in my personal experience (although with no sea, so Skegness wins in that respect!) What were you doing all the way up there? We were looking at Mablethorpe as an alternative to Skegness for last weekend - I've never been there either!

Had THE most lovely evening nattering to my friend Mr Cheery made us a chilli, and I made those spelt wrap things again and she brought chocolate and everything was just lovely :j :j SO much nattering and so lovely :j

She left, and while I was waiting for the kettle to boil I cleared out a couple of shelves in the food cupboard :j :j The easiest ones, just with the jam and breakfast stuff on but they were awfully sticky and covered in crumbs Trying to do 15 mins a day a la Flylady again for a while, restore some vague kind of order

Sneaked out into the garden with my friend this evening - so overgrown :eek: and so many things dead But the rose I bought from Poundland is blooming nicely by the door which is *lovely* and there's plenty of raspberries and some tayberries too :j :j Going to get my mother out there picking gooseberries at the weekend and we can make some jam

Three healthy things for tomorrow...

1. Shred video
2. Only one meal involving porridge (sticking with this one til it becomes a habit!)
3. Drink 2 bottles of water :j