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

dawnybabes

What was the app again your mum used - want to check if my mum can get to me ! 

Cheery_Daff

It wasn't an app, it was the traveline website! You have to filter it to only use local buses and walking (so you can walk between buses). It was surprisingly good!

dawnybabes

Fantastic x 

Watty1

I was on team castle until I read your options and I would have voted seaside without a doubt. Delighted to read on and see you went with that

Greying_Pilgrim

I was - and am - on 'Team seaside' all the way.  Team 'Town Terrace' at a push (as long as there was plenty to see in and around the town, or a festival/show/concert on or something).  The Castle does have an appeal - I can see how in some ways it's too similar to home, but can also still see the appeal to 'totally switch off' for a restorative hols.  What put me off would be the travelling time for a short break.  If part of a longer holiday, I'd possibly be more likely to opt for a 2 or 3 centre break, which included the castle, just for the sheer fun of it.  

But the important thing is that you've booked a break away 😁I look forward to your reports on everything on your return 😁 Yes, I am unashamedly free-loading to get a 'salty sea air' fix vicariously 😂

Greying X

Cheery_Daff

Thank you, I'm glad I have the popular vote 😂😂 I hope I don't live to regret it - it's a flat, and doesn't even have a sea view 😮 But it's a very nicely appointed flat and close to the sea, so... 

Anyway, it's booked now - no more second guessing! 

Need to check if there's anything we should see while we're there, although our holidays are usually just cafe and pottering based, much like the rest of our lives 😂 and it looks like the weather will be good 😊

Got things we want to do before we go though. I need to get Mr C some birthday presents for a start! My mum is leaving at lunchtime today, we need to get those plants in the ground, and I'll want to strim the rest of those nettles, and mow the normal lawn before we go too. 

Elisheba

Just caught up, Cheery. Your seaside break sound like it will be lovely. I love that fact that your Mum used her free pass for a 5.5 hour journey to yours - it's very Miss Marple 🤣.

Cheery_Daff

Ha - I'm hoping it will inspire her to use it for other trips too! 

Feels like it's been a long day here, although it hasn't really 😂 Went to a different town to source Mr C's birthday presents for next week 😁 Trip was a success, so that's a job ticked off. Also did 2 loads of washing, but as I was pegging the first out, planning to leave it overnight, big drops of rain started falling 🙄 So that load is inside, but by the time the second was done the sun came out again, so the second lot is outside overnight, and I'll put what's still damp out of the first load out in the morning 😂

Mr C is having a sock sort out - I have retrieved some of my own socks, and we have put away a fair bit of stray washing, so upstairs is looking rather neater. 

I've done an hour of scything - sadly not the hay field but the nettle patch behind the house. No immediate benefit for us (other than the cows not escaping because the electric fence has shorted) as we can't see it from the house. But it does have the best view round there, and one day we'd like a seating area, and there's a perfectly good stable block with power and water that we could do with patching the roof of before the whole thing disintegrates... 😬

Sigh. Please use us as your lesson to NOT buy more house/land/outbuildings than you can afford to, or have time to, maintain...😬😂

I'm staying home tomorrow, whatever Mr C decides to do. He's in full on 'it's my birthday next week' mode 😂 So I have a list.

* get the plants in the ground! Been saying this for days!!

* pack for holidays (including basic food, tea, coffee etc) - we'll likely frequent a lot of cafes but I do want some food in, and I have no interest in supermarket shopping on holiday (although Mr C loves a supermarket so it's probably unavoidable)

* get all the washing dry

* mow the grass

Also want to be showered and hair washed and house reasonably straightened ready to leave on Monday morning 😁

I have determined where to stop mid-way - a little bimble round a market town 😊 Cant get in the accommodation til 3 anyway, and it's quite a trek, so we might as well stop for lunch 😊

greenbee

I think your mum's idea of using the journey as part of the holiday is a great one. I need to do that more. My dad used to be really good at planning trips to stop off with friends/family rather than rushing to the destination. 

Cheery_Daff

Yes I love extending a holiday with visiting a pal 😊 I've tried to arrange that for this trip, but the ones I had in mind are away themselves until the day we'd be passing. We're going to keep in touch and see if the stars align to at least let us have a cuppa 😊