Learning to walk before I run

beanielou

I would live in North Berwick if I had the money. As I don’t I will stay here. 

Greying_Pilgrim

One of the competitors on Glad1at0rs tonight was from Galston - which I've looked to see, and as you'll know - is north of Ayr.  If I was in that neck of the woods, I would love a bag of chips at the beach, and an ice-cream on the way home! 😁 The lass didn't win, but she did Scottish Farmers proud 😁👍

Greying X

AgathaSquirrel

I do live in that neck of the woods. Not a fan of chips or ice cream but we do have many lovely coffee shops, restaurants and even a cat cafe if that’s your thing.

Biased because my eldest did very well but I think the schools are good.

I have a 5 bed detached house. Decor is still dated but I wouldn’t have anything like this in other parts of the country.

On the coast, lots of greenery. What’s not to love?

Suffolk_lass

And less than 20 miles from the lovely Dumfries House, so you can apply for a free parking permit. Those of us visiting have to pay £5.

beanielou

Dumfries House is amazing. A sadly no longer with us friend held a post there and was prominent in the programme about it. Lots of tears. 

Suffolk_lass

beanielou said:

Dumfries House is amazing. A sadly no longer with us friend held a post there and was prominent in the programme about it. Lots of tears. 

Until the charge came in, we went every day to walk our dog while staying at my Mum's. Now we need to walk in from her town and our wee dog can't do it every day, it's too far for him, and the pleasure was in walking the grounds. Now it is more there and back again. We need to explore Boswell Estate and the area around the cave and castle, I think

South_coast

I love living by the sea 🩷 If you get somewhere where you can walk to the places you want to be, it doesn't matter so much when it's "hoaching" in the summer, as you're not a part of the traffic and hunts for parking

AgathaSquirrel

Suffolk_lass said:

And less than 20 miles from the lovely Dumfries House, so you can apply for a free parking permit. Those of us visiting have to pay £5.

Meeting a friend there next weekend with my free parking.
Boswell House and the surrounding walks are good too.
My favourite is Culzean but as part of our cost cutting measures we will probably give up our National Trust membership soon. 

We’re going to the beach today for a run. One of the many benefits of living by the coast.

AgathaSquirrel

beanielou said:

Dumfries House is amazing. A sadly no longer with us friend held a post there and was prominent in the programme about it. Lots of tears. 

I’m sorry to hear that. The work that has happened at Dumfries House is phenomenal. I hope your friend was proud of their contribution.

edinburgher

Mrs E is gently ribbing me for wanting to move anywhere we have an enjoyable holiday or day out. It's probably fair criticism but I like my combination of dreamer with solid planning skills

The weather is pretty foul here, I've been up since 06:52 with DD2. Current plan is perhaps a cooked breakfast and then bundle myself up for a brisk walk. I've started listening to an interesting podcast about Iran on The Rest is History. If I finish episode 1 and then listen to the second, that's about 1:10 of walking. We have haggis, carrots (don't really like neeps) and tatties, so could do a bit of a Burns Night later on. Our only whisky is American but I won't tell if you don't Also usual Sunday stuff including a bit of housework and DD1 swimming lesson.

Thank goodness it's the last week of January!

• £11.09 to Extension
• £2.29 to EF
• 15p to personal cash savings yes, I know, it's 15p