A productive weekend.

Saturday was a very successful day in the sense that I washed my car, dug up the sweetcorn from my raised bed and managed a 3.5 mile walk and a quick cuppa with Yvonne, all the things I wanted to achieve so very happy.

 My car before and after - the mud is due to the farmers dropping large amounts of mud on the road and not cleaning it up, then the rain comes down and the roads are like mud baths making them very dangerous at the moment.

 

 

 

 My raised bed before and after - the sweetcorn was from a packet named baby sweetcorn, mine was not baby!!!

 

Sprouts and leeks left in - need to decide what to put in next.

Last link of the week to Lucky Snapping.  As most of you know I turned 50 in May and decided that I would do something every month for a year to celebrate the year.  Not always something big but just something that I have either been putting off or would normally say no to.  So May saw me completing the London Moonwalk, June Mick and I went to France to visit family war graves, July, Mick and I spent a couple of days walking along the west coast down Lands End way,  August we went to the Bristol Balloon Fiesta, September I had a weekend away with Yvonne, crafting, October Mick and I went to Westonbirt Arboretum, November I am going to stay with Bernadette and have a shopping spree and go to see the Wildlife Photographer of the year exhibition, December I am going to finally treat myself to a pedicure and manicure, January - not sure yet, February I am hoping Mick and I will get our act together and go to Iceland for a few days to see the Northern Lights but not sure if I have convinced him on that one yet!! March - not sure, April going to see Fiddler on the Roof with Paul Michael Glaser (from Starsky and Hutch days) and that will bring me back to May.

 

 

 

Today

103/365 - Devoran - hard to believe that when I went to work this morning at 8am it was blowing a hooley, pouring with rain and grey skies.  By 1pm when I set off for my walk the sky was blue and stayed like that for the rest of the day.

 

Headed over to the Bissoe Trail again today for a twelve mile walk.  Not only was I eager to see if the leg would hold out for the distance but I also wanted to try 'Runkeeper' an app I had downloaded onto my phone to work out the distance, time etc I was walking.  It was fantastic, every five minutes it updated me with the time, distance, mins per mile and showed calories and average distances.  Really pleased with it. This was a view on the walk, just prior to taking this a rather nice looking fit young man had run passed us, unfortunately I was too slow and didn't get him in the photo, or maybe he had speeded up having seen us from the front lol.  Maybe he was thinking 1664 - 16 from behind, 64 from the front!!

 

Both these photos were taken with my phone, which I am starting to use more often on walks.

 

Oh car update, obviously didn't have my name on it.  Mick spoke to the chap again today and double checked it all and the chap agreed to keep it as he was travelling up so far.  Then Mick did a hp check on it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  OOps looks like a slight false description, it is marked as a class D which apparently means it has been seriously damaged and re built - minor detail!!!!!  Fifteen pound well spent on the check me thinks.  Hey ho, back to the drawing board.

POTD & Car Update

 

102/365 - Comebellacks Scrapyard, Roche, we had to pop into the scrapyard again and this lorry with it's squashed load was waiting to go out,

 

This afternoon we went out car hunting again. Whilst I was at work Mick spent the morning surfing for a suitable car with no luck.  As I had mentioned before I just want something small that is economical because of the travelling I do and something that is a bit of fun.  I don't need or want speed or anything fancy - just four wheels with a body on top.  Anyway we had talked about a C4 or C3 then the C2 and then the C1.  So I suggested we went over to the Citroen garage and have a look at the different models and maybe a test drive.  Well much to my surprise and Mick's he was very impressed with the C1, we had a test drive and I have fallen in love.  We drove the 5 door version and it went really well with three of us in it - bearing in mind normally it will only be me in the car on my tod!   So we then came home, Mick started his search again and hey ho he has found one just like this one below but in blue my favourite colour !!! 

 

I cannot believe how excited I am, me who couldn't care less about cars. The only problem is the car is in Heathrow........... which is approx. 3.75 hrs away from us, so it looks like Mick and his brother (I'm working)  will be having a day out on Monday and hopefully fingers crossed I will have a new toy on Monday.

 

Mick is now muttering that it will probably be gone by Monday, so in my true style I have said, (as I always say and drive the family mad with), "que sera sera", if it has my name on it, then it will be there, if not then there is something better out there with my name on" So hope it has my name on.