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Ooh, my vote is for the Scillies - we visited there for a friend's wedding in 2013, absolutely stunning place (we were lucky to have gorgeous weather and kept bumping into other guests around the island - was like we lived there!). However, it's not cheap and it's also likely to be hard to find somewhere to stay - people book up well in advance as there's limited accommodation.
Thanks for the info on the nail varnish - sounds really good. Interesting article too!Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days
'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway0 -
Hi madvix - yep, the Scillies were my original choice, but I'm going to be hard-headed about maximising the use of the NT annual ticket, since I've no intention of buying it every year. Even the Isle of Wight might be difficult - lots of hotel entries on booking.com said "last room" etc. With going to Norfolk for so long, and then the cruises, its a long time since I booked my own holiday ... dear me! I'm wondering about Yorkshire too - based on Fountains Abbey and Huddersfield/ Holmfirth, which are some of the ancestral towns ... I went on a little genealogy field trip to Northants once, also ancestral, and got struck by food poisoning, I'd like to actually see it this time. Everything is up for grabs, basically
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Sounds fun!
Fountains Abbey is on my to-do list. Lots of NT places in the south-west too. (As an aside, have you been to Ham House, can't remember whether I mentioned on my diary, but we went there last Monday - the house itself was fascinating and the kitchen garden was great too - with a woodpecker nesting in a tree right by the patio of the cafe! (Should be doable for you by train-ish).)
Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days
'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway0 -
Wow, I'd have thought it was "ish", as well - I just checked on trainline, its only £14.65 day return (railcard!) and the journey is only an hour, changing at Clapham Jn - thats a good day out
So, after another cuppa, I'm going to get my act together and get out into the garden. Hope everyone has a good day2023: the year I get to buy a car0 -
My garden is driving me crazy! Even though its not about bramble roots, its still about crisis management, argh. Today was about getting rid of the couch grass, strawberries and something else I don't know the name of, thats infesting the area nearest the patio, home to chives, lemon balm, wild garlic, garlic cloves, sage and salad burnet. I get things set up somewhere and the rest has gone completely wild. Bleepity bleepity bleep :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:2023: the year I get to buy a car0
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My garden is driving me crazy! Even though its not about bramble roots, its still about crisis management, argh. Today was about getting rid of the couch grass, strawberries and something else I don't know the name of, thats infesting the area nearest the patio, home to chives, lemon balm, wild garlic, garlic cloves, sage and salad burnet. I get things set up somewhere and the rest has gone completely wild. Bleepity bleepity bleep :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
KC I think you might be talking about my garden:eek::eek::eek:
I love my garden and it is very healing being outside in the fresh air tending it, or at least it would be if I had not also been ill and let it get away from me. Here it is couch grass, more dammed strawberries and at least 3 other perennial weeds that I do not know the names of.
As dear Beanie says, let's keep plodding.:)The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. (Abraham Lincoln)0 -
Lots of lovely possible destinations to choose from
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Karma, my garden too.
Also a very large rabbit population that eat anything pretty but leave me the weeds!15/5/12 Paid off Mortgage 1 (£220k) Bought Dream House:www: Dec 13 - Mortage 2 -£116,508. 15/7/18 Mortgage Free Again :j
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Would pots and troughs help at all KC? Were not very green fingered, but have had great results since we started container planting0
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KC I think you might be talking about my garden:eek::eek::eek:
I love my garden and it is very healing being outside in the fresh air tending it, or at least it would be if I had not also been ill and let it get away from me. Here it is couch grass, more dammed strawberries and at least 3 other perennial weeds that I do not know the names of.
As dear Beanie says, let's keep plodding.:)Karma, my garden too.
Also a very large rabbit population that eat anything pretty but leave me the weeds!she looked so happy! So I do make a rod for my own back :rotfl:
SuperSecretSquirrel wrote: »Would pots and troughs help at all KC? Were not very green fingered, but have had great results since we started container planting2023: the year I get to buy a car0
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