Travelling On

themadvix

Ooh, enjoy Sutton Hoo - it's in the middle of a makeover, but I think some of the stuff is just beginning to be opened. Never been to Clacton, but friends of DH's parents have moved there - sure it'll be lovely. And the sea... the wonderful sea - enjoy!

Sounds very sensible to get the suitcase collected in advance.

teapot2

I used to enjoy a day out in Clacton as an escape from the big smoke and I'm rather partial to a wander on a pier [with ice cream or chips or even both but not at the same time ]

Have fun :cool:

Karmacat

Sounds good then, excellent, thank you both :j
Not trying to do any of the big jobs today, just tidying, laying things out to pack, clearing my camera and phone so I can take more photies then backing up will be next

Karmacat

I managed to get my environmental post up and running last night, and since I *still* didn't get any commission links in there, and it won't earn me any money, here's the linkie: http://www.preparednessfactandfiction.co.uk/environmental-prepping/

Nothing else new, just a repeat of yesterday's "tidying and laying things out to pack", oh, plus I'm pottering off to the local village fair this afternoon which is huuuuuge.

Hope everyone has a good weekend.

Karmacat

All went well today managed to get out to the fair, *with* my sister, she was duly impressed at the size of it all and we were given a leaflet for the local NT organisation - sort of camp followers of the NT, I'm not sure :rotfl: its independent of the NT, and in my town, with a very low joining fee (like £3 p.a.) so I think I'm in.

Sister has collected my suitcase and my hessian bag of food for the caravan - just basics that can be brought home again.

Lazy afternoon after that, though some washing machine shenanigans are taking place in the background. And I just placed a supermarket order, for a week Tuesday, yikes. £10 off, and only £1 delivery fee, fine by me. I took care not to bulk buy anything that I could buy cheaper from Healthy Supplies or from Somaya, the online Indian supermarket whose home is ten minutes rail journey for me - heavy settlement of Indian families there, so the restaurants and the shops are splendiferous thats where I got the 1kg of turmeric for £2.99

I might do a little weed seed-head lopping just now. Nothing energetic

earthgirl

Karmacat wrote: »

I managed to get my environmental post up and running last night, and since I *still* didn't get any commission links in there, and it won't earn me any money, here's the linkie: http://www.preparednessfactandfiction.co.uk/environmental-prepping/

Nothing else new, just a repeat of yesterday's "tidying and laying things out to pack", oh, plus I'm pottering off to the local village fair this afternoon which is huuuuuge.

Hope everyone has a good weekend.

Loved your article, so much work went into that!!

Karmacat

Aww, thank you! Yes, I worked hard on it, I feel quite strongly about all this. One comment on another forum was the importance of hedging as a positive environmental input that can be made. And I agree, and I feel slightly shocked I left it out but you have to be wary, like with my laurel hedges that take over my life for 2 - 3 weeks each year at the moment! And they should be multifunctional, providing food for birds, nesting material, anything.


I got myself together yesterday in terms of at least getting things from the kitchen down to the living room, meaning that the upstairs is nearly all clear, hurray :beer: Plus the weed seed-head chopping went well an'all Finishing all that up today

teapot2

I enjoyed your blog KC, hope you might be able to get some commission links in there as well at some point. I already do a few of the things you wrote about and am interested in 'rewilding' as well. I was sat in the garden yesterday watching all the bees going from flower to flower and listening to the birds and that gives me a lot of contentment [but not complacency I know theres much more to do].

Well done on getting the upstairs cleared, that will make a difference. Has the tiling been done in the kitchen? I might have missed that?...

Karmacat

Thank you teapot! I love it that people read my blog and I like writing the articles I've got to work harder at relearning how to put Amazon links in - wordpress have changed their interface so much, I can't use the new system yet

The tiling hasn't been done yet, your wonderment is correct when I got back from the Kent holiday, the tiler happened to be on holiday the very next week, and this week, it was a 4 day week, and it just didn't happen. I'll have to text tomorrow and ask for a time during the week beginning 10th June!

apple_muncher

I have tried 4 times to say that I'm another one who enjoyed your article. Pesky token kept expiring despite me re-loading the page.


And tha fair sounds wonderful.