Week 27
Sunday and Monday was spent mooching about the house and garden.
Tuesday – A visit to Cardiff for the Hotter shoes shindig. A blogger evening spent trying on shoes and meeting up with some lovely ladies including TheBoyandMe – Yes I met Me!! and Mel at Diary of a Jewellery Lover whom I’ve been pals with online for sometime.
Wednesday – Orange Wednesday this week was Mrs Browns Boys D’movie. I love the BBC series and it can leave me breathless with laughter but the film… oh dear.. very disappointing. If you’ve seen the trailer you’ve seen all the funny bits.
Thursday – Today I found out that I won a 3 night stay at Aqueduct Cottage at Goytre Wharf for this weekend.. EEKK…It may be only about 20 miles away but a weekend away is a weekend away!!
Friday – Spent the morning sorting out the packing for the weekend. We set off at 2:30pm and was sat in the cottage less than an hour later. We were the first guests to stay there so it is all new and clean. It’s well equipped and had some lovely touches – a welcome tea/coffee tray, kitchen pack with t-towels, cloths, sponge, washing up liquid and kitchen towel. The big downer though was no interwebs. Data connection on phone virtually non-existent and wifi signal too poor to register with local service. Oh well.. guess I’ll have to talk to Hubby then! 🙂 (you can read more about the cottage here)
Saturday – Drove up to Hereford, lovely city and was pretty busy. They have a new small shopping centre too which is just across the road from the main city centre. I can’t understand how this is a thriving centre with lots of shops and outlets and yet Newport is failing and full of ‘cheap’ shops. Something wrong somewhere!
Week 27
Above: Flower head in local garden, Hotter Shoes, Gl ass cut to size, Orange Wednesday, Hereford Cathedral, Aqueduct Cottage.
WEEK 28
Sunday – Discussion over breakfast on where to go today. Options were Brecon, Hay-on-Wye or Big Pit. I know Hubby was keen to do Big Pit so that’s where we went. I wasn’t keen on the underground bit and wouldn’t be keen on doing it again to be honest. The museum part is very interesting and brings home how dire the conditions once were. I’d highly recommend it, children can also go underground! As it’s a Museum of Wales site all you pay for is parking which is currently£3. (More about Big Pit here)
By the time we ended our visit it was gone 2pm so a bit late for a pub Sunday lunch. We popped down to Pontypool to buy a few bits and bobs and a drink and made our way to Pontymoile Basin and sat at the canal edge with our impromptu picnic. We planned on going to the local pub for our evening meal – what a palaver we had.. they don’t do food on Sunday evening, neither did the Wainyclare or the Horse and Jockey! We ended up in the Harvester near Pontypool!
Monday – We bid farewell to our weekend away. Back home to water the pots and baskets. When I logged into my email I noticed that I had over 3 thousand emails. I panicked a bit, then realised I was looking at the copy folder (I send a copy of all my emails to a folder then double check this one for wins.. what a saddo!!) There was only a thousand in the Inbox!! That’s what 3 days of hardly no wifi does to you!!
Tuesday – Off to Cardiff again – this time at the Millenium Centre to see a production of Warhorse that we booked last October. We had Circle front row seats so had a great view. It was wonderful, powerful, emotional, sad and funny. It’s pure class.
Wednesday – no cinema this week. There’s nothing we fancy seeing. The road opposite was closed off so that some supplies could be craned in to where a new house is being built.
Thursday – Son, DIL and Grandson came and we all sat in the garden for a while. DIL is getting quite big now, only about 10 weeks to go now I think.
Friday – One of the window panels in the bay was due to be replaced as it had gone cloudy. Despite lots of photos by the window company it didn’t come back from the manufacturers looking anything like what we had. So they decided to fit the ‘wrong’ panel so that the old panel can be taken apart for the glazing bars to used in another try at the panel!! So they are doing what I suggested at the start!! MEN>>>>>
Saturday – decided to buy one of those Karcher Window cleaner things as they are on offer in Currys. I’ll update you all next week on what I think of it.
Above : Window before the replacement, crane lift, Big Pit, Warhorse, Emails.
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A weekend away sounds divine. It doesn’t matter if it’s only round the corner really does it, it still feels as though you’re away.
have to say when I am away I try and at least access e-mails and delete all the rubbish ones as Im like you and get hundreds in a day. Maybe dont read the rest till I get home but saves a huge pile.
Sorry had to mwahhahahaha at your comment of having to talk to hubby, flipping heck lifes tough!!!!
Never watched Mrs Brown on the tv but heard differing opinions on it.
I have never ‘got’ the whole Mrs Brown thing but know lots of people that love it but have been disappointed at the movie. I went to the Big Pit a while back on my girl’s school trip – loved going down in the mines and so interesting.
Lucky thing winning a weekend away!! I’d love go anywhere. Poor you having to speak to hubby though.
Looks like a busy couple of weeks! Well done on winning the weekend break!
wow you have been super busy lovely the shoe event sounds like lots of fun! x
i don’t watch Mrs Browns Boys and so the film would be a big no no for me. Nice that you got to meet ‘me’ at the Hotter Shoes event and know the face behind the plastic toy lol
and how wonderful that you won that weekend break x
Liking the sound of the shoe event. The cottage sounds lovely even if it was really close.
Weekend away sounds ace even when it’s not far from home it’s a nice change of scenery, although the lack of internet is a definite downside!
Got to laugh about the window! Men don’t listen and even when you are
Proven to be right they still won’t admit they should have just done it your way in the first place!! X
Shoe event sounds great as does a weekend away – lucky you.