Travelling On

Chiglepig

KC, Southampton has the Sea City Museum which includes a Titanic exhibition - it's right in the city centre. Just along from there is the Tudor House Museum, which is fun too (you can get joint day tickets). If you go on a Sunday, The Platform Tavern (near the IoW Ferry terminal) do the finest Sunday lunches (incl. vegetarian) and have live music, usually jazz most Sundays - but booking a table is essential. Corfe Castle is great (but you'll need walking boots just to get up to it!), and Corfe Mullen is a picture perfect Dorset Village. If you are interested in Cathedrals Sailsbury is my favourite, but Winchester is lovely too - make sure you see the crypt and get the full William Walker story - he was a deep sea diver who spent years diving into the flooded foundations to prevent the building from collapsing. There is also a flower show there the week after next, I think. Winch is actually very buzzy with cafe culture and has some good charity shops too (including the Oxfam bookshop which I have to stay out of - too many unread books on my shelves already!

Karmacat

Thanks Chiglepig!  

greenbee

Winch was heaving today when I went for my hair appointment. 

Karmacat

I can imagine   I hope you enjoyed having your hair cut!

We won't be going into any town centres like that - things that are mostly open air, or big attractions in big box type places.  It's also quite unlikely that we'll be eating out ... though we may do, as we'll be going to a few cafes with bro when he gets down here.  Funny old world.

Suffolk_lass

You might like Buckland Rings (to the north of Lymington). Not too strenuous and the top is a good place for a reward, like a flask of coffee, or a picnic. I think there's a seawater swimming place somewhere too.

When we have stayed in the west of the New Forest (closer to Ringwood than Lymington) some years ago now, we enjoyed the West Moors Country Park and the railway (narrow gauge steam, but likely to be lots of children, if it is still going). The Grounds of Beaulieu are rather nice too (as is the museum, but likely to be more crowded).

Karmacat

Thanks for that, SL - I noticed that marked on google maps.  Definitely our kind of thing.  Country Park is always good not sure about the railway - we've been on a few, including our local one, we might see what the crowds are like.  I quite fancy Beaulieu, but haven't researched it yet.  This is great

This morning, had a phone chat, posted a letter and extended things around the block, and dug up a few salvias that have tried too hard - I want proper sage there, and anyway the fence needs to be opened up so it can be painted.

Resting for early afternoon - I'm sleeping *very* badly - and I'll try to do a bit more this afternoon.  A couple of teensy extra kitchen jobs are also getting done - doing them now so I don't push it in the days before bro turns up.  

Excellent all round  

apple_muncher

Excellent indeed.

Hope you sleep better.

Karmacat

My word - between a bit of spring cleaning, up to an hour in the garden in a couple of goes, plus still being addicted to the Outlander books, time has flown.  

I checked out my dual fuel bill with Scottish Power - as I said on Shanghai Jimmy's thread, my savings are always overestimated because my useage is so low, and at the moment, the "saving" they quote is about £4 a month.  That's not worth shifting for, given the uncertainty, so thats a lot less work involved.

Today is about keeping the containers watered, and the Asda delivery - clearing space, readying for cleaning, that sort of thing.  If I have time spare, I'll be cleaning the hob.  

Sister has been informed she has to book a test at a centre - I'm really hoping she hasn't got it, for all our sakes - erm, I might be doing even more cleaning if my brother ends up staying with me, not her  only just thought of that, yikes.  

Karmacat

All seems well so far, which is good  

Managed to clean a lot of the shopping, but I bought too much in one go - can't possibly clean all that in one day.  Although I needed 3 separate refunds - two tins damaged, but the driver put in a claim for the cheapest ones, not the ones that were actually damaged, so I claimed more; and a whole bag of frozen veg was missing (7kg!!!).  Plus 4 substitutions and a cancellation.  

Today, cleaning the rest, and later:
- plotting days out, to make the most of the time.
- gardening, even if it's just cutting the grass.
- later on, a walk?  If I can.  That would be nice  
- phone niece to sing Happy Birthday down the phone   

themadvix

7kg of frozen veg, blimey Karma! That'll keep you going. Very poor show by driver to refund the cheapest tins not the ones that were actually damaged.

Enjoy your day - it sounds like it should be a lovely one.