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

beanielou

Enjoy your wee break. 🤩

Cheery_Daff

Thanks beanie 😊

Mr Cheery's regular saver is now set up too (unless they decide we can't have two individual ones being fed from the joint account but I can't see any indication that that's not allowed).

I've been bitten all over my hands again - got complacent with all the wind we've been having and didn't put on insect repellant. Stupidly enough I think I was fine while scything as there was a breeze in the field - but then I sat in the swing for 10 mins as it went dark, noticed all the bats flying around, then realised what they were eating was actually eating me... 🙄😂

EssexHebridean

Have a fab trip Cheery - sounds like just the ticket, sometimes you just need to be somewhere that there aren't any "must do" pressures around you to get a proper relaxing break don't you! 

Greying_Pilgrim

Safe Travels Cheery - hope you have a ball 😁  

Greying X

LadyWithAPlan

Enjoy your trip.... Did the Hobbs dress fit? Love that brand, they also make amazing long lasting boots

I did love @KajiKita reference to recharging and reframing that by having a cable attached.. as opposed to feeling 'lazy' I definitely did that Monday but I needed it

Cheery_Daff

Thank you all 😊 (and yes LaPlan, the dress does fit, although it would be more comfortable if there was very slightly less of me...).

Having a lovely time so far. NOT the lap of luxury - my room has two sets of bunk beds, and windows you can only see out of from the top bunk, so it feels a little like a cell 😂 (I'm trying to think 'convent' rather than 'prison' 😂).

I stopped at a museum on the way here, and an open air swimming pool 😊 although had to get out a little early as it started raining and the staff thought they heard thunder 😂

Had a nice walk around this evening, and came back to find the laundry room (with my towel in) locked and the only staff member gone home for the night 🙄 Fortunately a lovely man found me a spare so I won't have to either drip dry or improvise using a pillowcase 😂😂

Spends so far:

* £100 for 2 nights accommodation
* £8.50 museum
* £3.95 swimming
* £9.50 supplies (milk, yogurt, sandwich for lunch, croissant for after tea 😁)

No idea what tomorrow will bring yet. I've seen a couple of posters... so I'm going to get into bed and explore options 😁

dawnybabes

Sounds like a lovely day except missing the towel 🤣🤣

Cheery_Daff

It was! 😂😂

However instead of having an early night I have wound myself into a stupor trying to decide what to do tomorrow! I'd almost settled on two sites of historical interest (and a walk between them) but realised it might be worth getting English Heritage membership for £42, except I then realised that price is with an NUS card, which technically I'm eligible to buy a version of, but which I don't currently have...

So now I'm embroiled in trying to buy the card, and figure out if I can access it online quickly enough to be able to sign up for EH membership- but I think I've signed up in the wrong way to do it quickly enough (as my evidence will be reviewed within 48 hours)

Anyway, now it's nearly midnight and I am still not asleep and my head is full of memberships and discounts and online forms 🙄

Let's keep it simple. I've never felt the need to have EH membership before, it's clearly not something I use regularly. I can get a small discount for booking online before 8.45 tomorrow morning, so I'll do that, and if I do later decide to go down the other discount route, I can do that and have it for the whole of next summer.

In the meantime, I seem to be in the process of dislodging a crown on one of my teeth 🙄 Not completely dislodged but feeling a bit ropey (at least I THINK it's a crown, rather than a tooth...). It's one that's going on the plate I've had made anyway, so not a crisis, but it would be nice not to live without it while I'm on this never-ending waiting list.

Anyway, time to go to sleep I think!

joedenise

Are you eligible for CSSC (Civil Service Sports Club)?  If you are it includes EH entry and if I remember correctly the membership card came almost immediately on the website - think it was next day.  You actually get a physical card.

Anyway have another enjoyable day including the EH properties if you do actually do that!

Cheery_Daff

No I'm not Joedenise, but that sounds like a useful scheme! 

I have stopped trying to over-complicate things and just bought individual tickets for each place - with 15% discount because I bought them online before 8.45am. I've also bought a guidebook for each place, something I rarely do but I'm trying to do things I WANT to do on this holiday, and I figured I'd saved a bit by bringing several meals with me! (That's what I'm telling myself anyway).

Total cost so far today: 

* £12.10 entry ang guide book for first place
* £16.10 entry and guide book for second place.

Going to walk between them so no cost there, but I will likely have lunch in a cafe.

Best get on I suppose! Hope the weather's going to be nice - the forecast when I booked this holiday was for rain but it's brightened since then, can't actually see out of the window from bed here 😂