Simple living in the country - back to basics

Tescodealqueen

Glad you are ok Cheery, best to have had it checked out.
starlit at seas comment about the blue jeans brought back a bad memory having been called to the school office about bruising on my sons legs. turns out writing his name in his wellies with a marker pen that turned out not to have indelible ink was a bad idea

cafelady

Hi Cheery. Just catching up with your diary. So sorry to hear about Bessie and it must have been so hard re homing your other two, but the right decision. Glad your health scare turned out not to be serious. Have a lovely time at your conference and with your friend x

Bluegreen143

Just caught up with the last few weeks of your diary Cheery. 

So sorry to hear you lost three chickens in a short space of time - how sad for you 🙁 sorry to hear you’ve rehomed your other two, but it sounds like you’ve made absolutely the right decision. As well as the stress and sadness of them getting ill, you’ve had quite a few eye-watering bills from the vet if I remember right too. 

Your A&E trip sounds terrifying! Glad you are OK. 

Cheery_Daff

Thank you all for your kind words. 

I'm afraid I'm laughing at those of you presumed to be ill or damaged because of clothing dye and pens marks 😂😂😂 I'm sure it wasn't funny at the time but I confess I am giggling now, hope you don't mind 😂😂 A lesson for us all!

Well, yesterday was a long day but a lovely one. The conference was great, and it was lovely to hang out with my old school buddy for a while 😊😊

And today we're off on holiday! A weekend in a hotel at the seaside 😊😊 I am SO excited. 

We had two nights away for a friend's wedding last year, but other than, we've not been away for more than one night since 2017, when we spent 3 nights at a friend's house in Berlin. 

Hotel has cost £250 including breakfast and parking - not super cheap but it looks like a nice room with chairs by the window looking onto a sea view 😊

I'm going to have to do a bit of exercise while we're there - running out of time for my exercise challenge 😱 Still got 25 miles left to run, 76 miles left to cycle, and 105 lengths left to swim 😱😱 we're back Sunday night, but going away again the following Sunday so need to get a shift on!! 

I'll do a couple of run/walks thus weekend, and next time we're away, so that should get the bulk of the running done. I'll have to go swimming 3 times to get that number of miles in. And that's a lot of cycling 😱 Not taking bike this weekend but I might have to next time. Might try a couple of shorter post-work rides, and longer ones on Saturday and Sunday. Eek!

Also, stupidly invited a couple of people from work to meet at my house on Monday morning 😱 So need to at least tidy a couple of rooms - we'll be at the kitchen table so as long as that and the bathroom are clear, all good. I could do with getting the strimmer out again though!

EssexHebridean

Very glad the hospital trip turned out to be non serious, but yes, the wake up call particularly on the stress and sleep aspects is worth listening to for sure. Very impressed with the 111 response - seems that they are perhaps starting to get the message that potential heart attacks in women are VERY different to the way they manifest in men. 

Hope the weekend away is wonderful - the hotel room sounds lovely! 

Jessy103

Glad to hear that you're ok cheery. Have a lovely weekend away 🙂

CathT

Just catching up Cheery, I'm sorry to hear about the chickens and your health scare.

Good luck with the exercise goals, at least the warmer days and longer evenings make things that little bit easier. 

Cheery_Daff

Evening MSE chums 😊😊 well, what a lovely weekend away! 😊😊

Not sure how MSE it was... 🙄 But not as extravagant as it could have been. £250 for the hotel (including breakfast and parking). We shared a takeaway on the beach on the first night (£10.50) and it was so nice we did exactly the same the second night, with the addition of a starter 😂 (so £14.30).

Lunch was eaten on the beach both days too, so probably about £20 in total for both days.

Other spends were entirely cafe and pub, and all just drinks, no meals. Four pubs total, one drink each in each (so let's round up to about £40 but it wasn't quite that much). More cafe trips, we were basically just circling from cafe to beach to cafe to beach etc 😊 But all just drinks, no food. 

And a couple of ice creams and donuts of course.

So including diesel, probably knocking on for £380-£400 😱 First holiday in 6 years but still, it mounts up, doesn't it! And there was me thinking we didn't do anything extravagant! 😱

Anyway, I also did some exercise 😊 A lovely run up and over a big hill on Friday afternoon, and I actually dragged myself out of bed early on Saturday and was in the local swimming pool at 7am 😮 where I swam an entire kilometer - further than I've ever been in one go before! 

Did over 30,000 steps on Friday (including my run), and about 27,000 pottering about yesterday, and another 10,000 today.

It's been great 😊 Hotel room had a bay window looking directly over the sea, which I do like 😊 Hotel guy was a bit of an annoying smart alec 🙄 and blatantly lied at one point - we'd left the hanger on the door because we didn't want it to be cleaned, and assumed therefore that nobody would come in - but someone left the breakfast menu on the bed 🙄 I mentioned this, because I assumed nobody would go in, and had therefore left underwear etc lying around (it could have been a lot worse, but even so!)

Anyway, he apologised, and said it was the 'new cleaner'- but if it was the cleaner, why didn't she at least empty the dish of used teabags?? Nothing had been cleaned at all. Clearly him - I said I'd left underwear out and he said "I don't mind" 😠 Maybe not, but *I* mind!! Anyway, they'd left me waiting at reception while they let someone else in and started dealing with them first, so all that got said in front of some new guests... 😂

But other than that, a lovely, sunshine tonic of a weekend at the seaside, utter bliss. I am SO calm and relaxed, it's lovely. 

Still sunny at home too - just had a cuppa on the garden swing and I'm going to get the strimmer out 😊

beanielou

Glad that you had a good weekend 

Cheery_Daff

Thanks Beanie 😊

Couple of hours of mowing and strimming done, and the garden is starting to look slightly less like a jungle 🙄😂 And before anyone mentions No Mow May, I can assure you that I've not touched even a third of the 'garden' space (and of course I'm not strimming the fields!) There's plenty left for the wildlife. But I can now hang the washing out without wearing wellies 😂

Some of the rest I'll leave for the summer, and cut back early autumn so it doesn't just turn to scrub. Some I'll do with the scythe - I like to keep on top of a bit at the end of the garden in case anyone wants to come on an impromptu camping trip - doesn't happen often 😂 But it does allow me to offer it with great glee and without a load of panic!

Mower plus extension does allow me to reach the main bulk of the bit we use, so that's good - that can be mowed once a week, and the strimmer wheeled out less often for the more unwieldy bits.

Phew! Need a nice bath now 😁