Finally Debt Free After 34 Years, But Still Need to Live Frugally

Onebrokelady

Oops forgot to say I used to have a Mexican orange blossom but it was another casualty of the chickens,I had a lovely garden before I had chickens 😀

Sun_Addict

Have a fabulous holiday 😎

doingitanyway

Hope you are having a lovely, relaxing time on holiday

HairyHandofDartmoor

Thank you everyone 🙂.

I had a really good holiday. The house was really good, clean with excellent facilites and a beautiful country view from the back of the house. We went to two NT places and a museum with a lovely garden. On the journey home we stopped and climbed up Glastonbury Tor which we really enjoyed and it felt like an extra day's holiday. We had sunshine ☀️ for the first two days and although it rained 💧on the third day we still got out and enjoyed the day. On the journey home it was sunny ☀️ so we had glorious view from the top of Glastonbury Tor. It's our first family holiday for ten years which made it very special 🙂 and the only thing that stopped it being perfect was that DS3 wasn't there.

Our spending on holiday was fairly moderate. I made sandwiches every morning for  picnic lunches and we took coffee/tea/water with us so we didn't have to buy any food or drinks. I cooked for two nights, we had a takeaway one night and went to my niece's house for a meal one night. It was a bonus of the holiday being able to visit one of my nieces and her DH in their new house as they live about half an hour away from our holiday house 🙂. We spent £30 to get in a museum and garden but as it was raining that day we had to do something and all our other activities were free. 

I would have liked the holiday to last longer, but it was nice to come home and when I walked into the kitchen I thought what a nice garden we have now 🙂. Yesterday I unpacked, did washing and did a bit of pruning in the garden 🌱🌿 (I couldn't wait to get out there). I feel like the break did us all good and I'll have really happy memories of it 😁.

I rang an aeriel company yesterday as we noticed our tv aeriel is at right angles instead of upright and were afraid it would fall off the roof and hurt someone 😱. The aerial man popped in and looked at it and said it wouldn't fall to the ground as it was light and the tv cable was strong, so that put my mind at rest. He's going to come back on Tuesday and take it down for £90 (inc vat). He quoted £175 to put a new aerial in but as we always watch interent tv it didn't seem worth spending the extra money.

Today I had to go to Mr M and buy a week's food. After that we bought some paint for the shed as we need to weatherproof it before the winter. We could have gone for transparant but we chose R0nse@l sage colour as we thought it would blend into the garden nicely. If we like it we may paint the back gate and fence that colour at some point. I did lots of weeding, deadheading and sweeping up in the garden this afternoon. I felt much happier when I was out in the garden as I love pottering about out there 🌿🌱⚘🌺.

I hope everyone is having a good weekend 🙂.

beanielou

So so glad that you had a fantastic relaxing holiday. Sounds just right for you 😊

HairyHandofDartmoor

Thank you Beanie .

Seasidegal58

Your holiday sounded lovely Hairy - I can tell by your post that it really did you good. 

And the garden is obviously giving you so much pleasure now - all that hard work there has really paid off. 😀

teafor2

Hi HHD Welcome back, I've missed you writing even though you've only been gone a few days. Sounds like you had a lovely holiday and what a bonus coming home to a garden that looks gorgeous. How is your sister doing and are you still trying to get together. I think there was some problem with travel due to Covid but has that changed yet? Have a lovely day. xx

elizabethhull

I'm so pleased your holiday was a success, and it's even nicer when you come back home and realise you have something lovely to come home to. All your hard work in the garden has really been worthwhile.f.

milann

It sounds as though your holiday was lovely - just the break you needed. 

Will you get to see ds 3 at some point - I know he’s a long way away and can’t be done in a day. 

The garden must be so good for you to come back to. All the hard work has paid off. At least it wasn’t too hot and it rained on your pots to keep them alive.....hopefully 🤞