Simple living in the country - back to basics

Karmacat

All of that sounds absolutely great except the hotel guy .... "I don't mind"?  Huh?  That's not good, but I like that it was all said in front of new guests, except that you lost even *more* privacy.  

Main thing is how good everything else was - blissful to eat lovely food on the beach, and have a sea view when you get into the room.  Enjoy a nice soak tonight after your gardening.

Tescodealqueen

Glad you had a good weekend away

themadvix

It sounds like you had a lovely time away Cheery! Very annoying about the hotel man though - not pleasant at all!

EssexHebridean

What a shame about the hotel chap - and how pointless too, had he just said "Oh I'm SO sorry about that - I realised as soon as I came back out that the hanger was on the door" he'd have come out of it far better - to you AND the new guests! Silly man!  other than that though it sounds like such a lovely break - and there really is nothing not to like about wandering from cafe to the beach to a pub and so on - it's so relaxing just to feel like there is nothing you have to do, isn't it! I think sometimes just stripping life back to choices not obligations for a few days at a time is a perfect antidote to the rest of real life. 

Cheery_Daff

I think that's exactly it - stripping back life to choices not obligations, as you say. Lovely to be somewhere else where you couldn't put the washing on or mow the grass even if you wanted to! 

Nice day today, although very different. Met up with two colleagues in a cafe, and they both came back here for an afternoon of working on a task that needed a nice big table and lots of thinking time This is the first time for the whole time we've been working together that we've met up in person, so it was lovely!

STILL not managed to collect the car from the garage though. I was going to get a lift back to the city with one colleague, but rang the garage to check when they were shutting and it was 4.15! Aarrgghh! Never would have got everything done and still got there for then, so I'm heading in with Mr Cheery (who will be on his way to his dad's) tomorrow morning. 

It does mean my planned bike ride for tonight has been foiled - I'm not cycling from home, it's far too hilly, and Mr Cheery is out in the other car. So, I need a plan for the evening

6.30-7 FOOD
* Cook something simple
* Eat a SMALL bit of it

7-8 EXERCISE
* Get changed
* Go for a nice run - aim for 3 miles ish (still LOTS to tick off in IronMay!)

8-9 PRACTICAL THINGS
* Plant a few seeds (finally)
* Check banks
* Finish a complaint letter
* Draft another letter

9-10.30 RELAX
* Nice bath
* Blog post? 
* Get photos from the weekend onto the laptop
* IronMay update onto social media

10.30 GO TO SLEEP! 

Right - ready, steady, GO!

Elisheba

Sounds like a lovely holiday away, and although it does all add up, it could ahve added up to a lot more if you hadn't picnicked on the beach for all your meals  .

I've just caught up, and I'm so sorry about the chooks.   I rehomed my last few as well after losing so many to illness and foxes - its really hard isn't it?

Your evening plan sounds really productive!  Mine is basically just eat, read, bed  .  I need to keep reading your diary for inspiration!

Cheery_Daff

Thanks elisheba 😊😊 I confess I didn't finish all of those things... but I did do some of them!

Cheery_Daff

Oops, posted too soon...

Every day seems beset with minor drama at the minute.

Yesterday Mr Cheery dropped me at the garage and headed off to see his dad - after which I realised I'd left my house key at home 🙄 So I ended up working in the office for the rest of the day, meeting my friend for a walk in the evening (as planned) and then instead of going home, I sat in the pub until Mr Cheery came back 😂 Not exactly a trial 😂

Today I was planning a bike ride after work- Mr Cheery came to town with me so I dropped him off at home planning to turn straight back round, when a piece fell off the car - yes, the one I collected from the garage the day before 🙄 We tried valiantly for an hour to reattach it, without success, and after an in conclusive Internet search, decided to just ring the AA. 

By that point it was 8pm, and all chance of a decent bike ride out of the window, when I remembered the exercise bike! 😂 Set it up in the garden and did 5 miles while I waited for the mechanic.

He lay on the floor, grabbed the dangling bit of car, yanked it out, and said "you don't need that anyway" - and that was it! Could have done that myself, although I do feel that yanking bits off your car when you don't really know what you're yanking is a potential recipe for disaster 😂

Anyway, having already got to 5 miles on the exercise bike, and with Mr Cheery hogging the bath, I decided I might as well carry on and do the other 5 I had planned, so I did, accompanied by curlews and bats, as the sun set. Most satisfying 😊

slm6002

That sounds like a great way to get the miles in

EssexHebridean

ROFL at the car - this sounds suspiciously like the under-engine tray then?! (Particularly as I have a hunch that at least one of your cars might be a Citroen - and they have a habit of losing their trays!) I definitely agree that yanking things off your car isn't usually an ideal scenario though - I mean in an ideal world I'd sooner nobody was doing such a thing, if I'm honest!  

Well done on the biking though - that's great use of otherwise "dead" time. And Curlews and Bats are always a lovely accompaniment to anything!