Where have I been?

Well nowhere ... yet. This retired life is exhausting and I have spent weeks rushing around. We have been having more work done on the house and there is nothing to fill your day like making cups of tea for the workers and clearing up after they have gone. At least for now they have gone and peace has been resumed. We have been having the utility room re-vamped and other bits and pieces and the decorator finished yesterday much to our relief. We had to leave the doors open though from the utility room into the garage to let the doors dry and headed out to Newcastle to return Andrew back to university with clean and ironed washing (he excelled himself this time - it took four loads in the new and beautiful washing machine) and a big bag of food, guess who paid! We had a great meal in Newcastle and the review can be found in the restaurant review section. When we returned home from a lovely evening we found that the cats and walked over the varnished door plate and then walked all over Mike's 1969 MGB with varnished paws - he had just got it back days before from the garage as he had had it re-sprayed. The night took a downturn from there. An emergency call to Geoff our decorator resulted in the suggestion to rub lightly with a rag just dampened with turps - bearing in mind that Mike had been told not to wash his car for a couple of weeks to let the paint harden - he was devastated but we followed the instruction and in the cold light of day it appears to have done the trick. What a relief!!

I also have to confess to having bought another cook book Paul Hollywood's "Bread" and have already tried his basic white recipe which went down very well. I will be updating the books list tomorrow with further details.

I am also getting all of my things together for my big trip to India and leave in 8 days time. Andrew and I are heading off to Goa for a month to complete a Yoga Teacher Training Programme and are incredibly excited. I will be updating the travel blog, Indian electrics and internet connection willing, so if you want to share the journey with us we would love for you to join us. The course includes accommodation and food and we will be on a vegan diet with 75% raw living food so it will be quite an experience. It is situated minutes from the beach and the weather is hot hot hot - a nice change from the weather here in wind swept Cumbria. I hope you can join us on this adventure.

Thank you for bearing with me in getting the blog fully up and running - it is a journey and I am really enjoying this change of life.

Namaste