Happy Mothers’ day, Annie!
Went for a 4 mile walk around Weeley today. This was from the “Walking around the Tendring Hundred” book, by Hilary and Jeremy Russell. It was a lovely walk, the weather was fantastic, and Tess was a brilliant walker (but a bit tired by the time we got back to the car).
Then it was off to The Tea Rooms for a lovely soup and a sandwich lunch, and thence to The Victory for a drink and some live music, courtesy of “DNA”.
Things has been a bit busy in the household since we got back from our New Year fun.
Early in January, work started on our loft conversion. We’ve got a blog for it! Yes! That’s a shock, isn’t it? It is :: Loft Conversion :: We’re supposed to be half way through the work - loft conversion for master bedroom and shower room, new kitchen, new downstairs shower room, and some other bits and pieces. So far, we’ve had a new boiler, half the loft floored, new insulation, two ceilings down, and a lot of mess. The poor Miele vac is working hard to make the place a bit tidy at the end of the week.
Tess is growing, and is great fun. She has her own blog - :: Tess the Golden Retriever ::. We get down to the beach nearly every day, and Tess loves it. She does like saying hello to other dogs, though 
Annie is engaging in a number of local activities, including swimming (me too), and a couple of book clubs, rambles with the local group, and various other things. Me? I sit with a computer on my lap, doing stuff like this.
We’re really looking forward to:
a) the weather getting warmer, and
b) the builders finishing all their work
Have fun. More soon.
We had a lovely New Year. We got the motorhome ready, and drove 260 miles to Burton upon Stather. We spent a great 3 days at a beautiful campsite - Brookside.
Organised by friends Shane and then Norman and Sandra, we did lots of dog walking, and New Year’s eve was spent in a small marquee, with fan heaters, in the company of 5 other MotorhomeFacts members.
Tess was excellent on the long journey there and back, and she settled in well in the van. We even left her on her own a couple of times to spend time with our friends, and returned to the van to find her asleep on her bed.
Can’t wait until the next trip.
We’ve had a lovely first Christmas in our new house, and in our new lifestyle. It was quiet (at least, as quiet as it can be with a growing puppy and two cats), but we’ve seen our offspring either side of Christmas day, which was nice.
Everyone seems to have settled in well. Tess, the dog, is growing bigger all the time, and the cats still hate her. Maybe when she’s a bit less of a puppy, and accepts that they don’t want to play with her, they’ll be better together.
The architect has drawn up plans, modified them, and re-drawn them, and we’re now happy that they are what we want - a bedroom and shower room ‘upstairs’, a porch to the front like the neighbours, and a deck to the (south facing) rear. We’re also getting the kitchen done whilst we’re at it. It’ll be lovely when it’s all finished, but I suspect it’ll be a pain during the process.
We’ve had a busy couple of weeks.
First, there were all the boxes to unpack and get sorted, and the rooms to ‘get straight’. We think we’ve managed it, although the garage has been pressed into service for storing things that don’t quite fit at the moment. A load of packing cases and materials have been transported to the tip, and we seem to be forever having 3 times as much rubbish to put out for the bin men as everyone else.
We’ve been in discussions with a builder working over the road, and we may be having some work done on the house. That’s right, we downsized, and now we’re making it bigger! Hurrah!
After a slightly hectic month, and the usual “will it, won’t it” concerns, we moved on November 13th. Everything proceeded smoothly (probably more to do with Annie’s hard work and planning than anything else), and by tea time we were having our fish and chips and champagne “welcome” meal.
We met our neighbours, who were both lovely, and didn’t mind us parking the motorhome down the side and bringing a menagerie with us.
At 4.45pm today, we got confirmation that we have exchanged contracts on both the sale of our house, and the purchase of our new bungalow. Exciting times!
We’re back from the Shepton Mallet show. We had a great time, and met some lovely people we knew, and some lovely people we didn’t know, but now do. And we bought some stuff.
Going away this Friday night after work to the motorhome show at Shepton Mallet, Somerset (or is it Wiltshire?)
This will be our third time at this show, and we always enjoy it. It’s a chance to meet up with some friends from the forum, and to buy some much-needed stuff. We have a shopping list!
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