I’ve been looking for our next trip away recently, well, since we came back from Barbados. There’s nothing like having your next jaunt booked and ready to go, is there? Only thing is, I didn’t know where we wanted to go. But then again I rarely do.
Given that I’m looking at something for February, I think my options are pretty limited. I was thinking sensible, and perhaps something close to home. Somewhere that we’d not been to or explored before, though I think MOH a thought I’d lost it when I suggested Kent or Surrey. I mean there’s nothing wrong with either of those, it’s just they’re day trip places.
We don’t often day trip there of course, but we could. I found some lovely cottages, some quirky, some modern and some more traditional. I quite fancied Dungeness, but then reconsidered for the time of year.
Browsing holiday cottages, and companies, is I’ve discovered addictive and as I’m discovering choice, or too much of it, can be a great immobiliser. So nothing got booked, but we’ve still some holiday to use. Then yesterday the Sunday paper had dedicated its travel section to France, and a spark, was ignited.
We haven’t been to France for absolutely ages, and I blooming love France. So, hopefully later today I’ll be booking a two night midweek stay in Lyons, which I was surprised that we’d not been too before. It looks a historic and gastronomic delight so perhaps it will be just the incentive I need to kickstart my 5:2 attempts again.
I don’t mind the intermittent fasting so much, but it needs careful meal planning, especially when this time round there’s absolutely no need for MOH to take part. Though if you remember from before he thought a tuna cheese melt was perfectly fine for ‘fast’ days!
It’s definitely a watch this space - the France trip, I mean, though there won’t be the traditional “fill your car boot up with wine” activity this time, which is a shame as they were always good day trips.
It was back to work for me last week, and not having been around since 12 December it was quite a shock to my system, and quite full on too. In the last few days of my extended break I got my lettering pens out again to make a couple of cards. Now they’ve been delivered I thought I’d share them here - I’m pleased with them, and hope their recipients were too.
Out on errands on Saturday we were disrupted by the screeching of the noisy parakeets which are prevalent in Greenwich Park. I’d not seen them so close to home before, but perhaps they’re expanding their patch even further. Who knows.
They definitely bring a spot of colour, and you certainly know they’re there.