Cheery's path to fulfilment - finishing the DIY, looking after myself, appreciating the garden 🌻

Cheery_Daff

Ha, well you'd both be very welcome but that's a bit of a hike, yes 😂😂 Not sure whether anyone's that close to me (and even if they are, it might be in the wrong direction!)

northwalesd

As I grew up on the Manchester/Stockport border, Lyme Park was one of our regular destinations for summer 'Sundays out' as a child. Although the house and park belonged to the NT at that time, it was managed by Stockport council, so was probably ridiculously cheap (probably even free entry into the park, or a nominal parking charge), we wouldn't have gone otherwise being quite a poor family, and there being five of us.

I haven't been for years, but may put it on the visit list for next year, it's still only about an hour and a quarter away. Have fun CD.

dawnybabes

It’s an hour from me, under normal circumstances I’d have been delighted to come but we’re off the watch The Snowman later with a live band at the old quaint cinema near me. 

badmemory

It is about an hour from me.  My parents used to take me as a child around 70 years ago, only the park though & we lived much closer then.  I'd forgotten all about that.

VintageHistorian

Lyme Park is one of the many on my visit wishlist, hope you have a lovely time!

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, looks like I've sparked a few memories there, and I should be on commission from them for future visitors! 😂😂

@dawnybabes that sounds like a lovely experience!! Hope you enjoy it 😊

Well. Lyme Park was indeed decorated for Christmas, but not quite in the way I expected 😂😂 I knew they had a trail for the kids, but hadn't quite realised how all-encompassing it would be, or that quite a bit of the house was cordoned off. This was the dining room 😂😂



That was fairly typical of all the rooms, lots of giant colourful animals everywhere 😂😂



There were lots of activities for the kids, and there were also a lot of kids 😂 lovely to see them enjoying themselves and engaging in all kinds of play and dressing up, with volunteers with puppets etc. I felt a bit in the way! 😂 anyway, I walked through the house and ended up back out in the courtyard within 20 minutes I think - glad I hadn't paid full price, as it was raining quite a lot so I didn't go round the gardens either.

There was a choir singing in the Chapel though (I didn't sit in, but listened in the doorway for a while), and I had some nice soup and a piece of pear, ginger and almond cake in the cafe, and a mooch round the shop and second hand bookshop, but nothing caught my eye. So nice day out, but I probably won't be rushing back there at Christmas again 😂

Home now, via the supermarket. Mr C is out, so I have a small plan for the next few hours: 

⭐ clean 'fridge box'
⭐ unpack shopping
⭐ get changed and get under the kitchen counters with the hoover - I don't think there's evidence the rat was under there (just under the kitchen sink) but I want to make sure)
⭐ figure out what's wrong with the damn fridge - plug into a different socket, see if we've got a different lightbulb, and look online for clues. Hoping it's just the light, but equally I'll be annoyed if it is as it's been out of action for several weeks now 😂 worth saying we haven't had a single pint of milk go off in that time, even though it's just been sat on the kitchen counter, which says something about the fridge-like temperature of our kitchen 🙄😂
⭐ flute practice
⭐ might do some batch cooking, but I might save that for tomorrow night
⭐ cleaning podcast to sort out the craft room - it's not too bad, but there are clothes that need putting away and the whole thing needs a good dust and hoover, and the bed making, spare duvet vacuum packing etc

First though, I need to get in the house, I'm sat on the drive in the car, which is slowly losing its warmth 😂

beanielou

Enjoy your day. 

Greying_Pilgrim

Thank you for your vicarious tour Cheery - that looks like alot of work has gone into all that.  I wonder if any local schools or playgroups have been involved - maybe they had an artist in residence.  Very lovely to see 😁  And thank you for the description of the soup and cake - pear, ginger and almond 😋

Greying X

Cheery_Daff

Yes, it was a local artist, looks like they've been reused from last year too. There were certainly local groups who'd decorated wooden trees on the run up the drive. Very jolly 😊

And the cake was lush 😁 definitely the best choice. They had a rather tasty looking fig and goats cheese scone too, but I didn't have one of those. Slightly regretting that now 😂 

Right. Fridge box given a quick wipe, shopping out away, and hoovered 8 years of mouse poo from under the kitchen cupboards 😱 There were a few rat droppings too, but not fresh, so I'm hoping they're from the same time we originally spotted them under the sink - not seen any evidence since then. 

Discovered the flipping rat had gnawed the fridge wire 🙄 Good news, because it's easily fixable - Mr C will stick on a new plug when he gets home. 

In the meantime after all that grim exertion I'm not feeling remotely like cooking, so I'm having breakfast for tea and watching Call the Midwife, and then I might need a bath 😬

Bucketing down here 🙄

Cheery_Daff

Morning chums 😊 candlelit yoga done this morning - day 8 that I've stuck to daily yoga, very pleased with myself! 

Woke up with a snore throat (from snoring, usually 😬) so hoping that will ease after a cuppa, it usually does. Although I'm detecting the beginnings of a sniffle, so hoping it doesn't turn into anything else 🙄

So, today. We have a big work deadline on Wednesday lunchtime so I'm meeting a colleague in a cafe this morning (between our two houses) to work on that - I'm hoping to submit early but won't hold my breath! 

Mr C is out tonight, so a small plan:

⭐ finish work at a decent hour
⭐ tidy craft room and set up bed
⭐ washing on
⭐ washing hung up
⭐ cook - get at least 2 portions of something in the freezer 
⭐ flute practice

Might try for some photo sorting and a blog post but that's not a priority, we'll see how i feel later 😊