our holiday in bulletpoints!

• we went a day late due to the boyf having food poisoning
• we had a cabin at 15 Lake Beck and our back door opened into the forest
• it was at Winfell forest nr. Penrith
• Starbucks rocks
• we had a great photoshoot and the photos will be available soon!
• i packed WAY too many clothes. we needed half! (tho the weather was unpredictable so thats my excuse and im sticking to it!)
• the boyf is better at archery than me! i got a bullseye on my first shot and got progressively worse!
• i spent over £100 on clothes in Spirit in the centre
• the boyf bought me a union jack doggy doorstop (i already have a house full of them!)
• we took too much food
• my spa session was amaze-balls! i had a mud-wrap flotation thingy, which meant she scrubbed me down, covered me in mud, wrapped me in foil, dropped me into a floatation tank and gave me a head massage! 
• i got told off in the spa. apparently to go into the actual communal spa area you have to book the day. this is not what it tells you online!
• i bumped into one of the women that owns the hairdressers i frequent! she was there with her family and sister and her family! freaky!
• we went on a 'hawk walk' with Bob the harris hawk, theyre not native to this country and he was a 'teen' (very unruly, quite ignorant) that was a real highlight of the holiday
• the boyf, ive learned, does not like any activities, ever, unless you force him to do them and he ends up having fun. 
• i had a trike. ive not been on a bike since before i was a teen and came off in an accident. and even then it had taken dad YEARS to teach me to ridet. he had a blast this time round! the only drawback was that that trike weighed a tonne and when i had to go up hills... fail....!
• the boyf is a fish. he should have flippers and gills.
• he taught me to swim on my back!
• i went down my first ever waterslide! and then went on it again straight away!
• i also went on a really big flume-slide, which, tho i banged my elbow pretty badly, ROCKED! youre gonna have a problem keeping me off them!
• the rapids were glorious, had so much fun on them!
• the boyf wants to keep up with the swimming now we're back!
• Hucks diner sucked. tho they were very accomodating with my gluten and dairy intolerances
• after we left CP we went to Penrith for a few hours, then to a castle just outside
• on the drive home we pulled off at Kendal cos the weather was monsoon style torrential and the car kept floating due to it being a sudden downpour.
• in Kendal we popped in to see Kristiana at her new job! she was homesick that day, but it was really good to see her!
• i bought many many things. besides the clothes, i got 2 cushions for the lounge, some presents, some hanging things, some GF and DF choc coated biscuits that ive already been thru two packs of...
• i beat the boyf at scrabble by over 100 points
• we never watched the box sets i took
• there was a channel on the tv just set up for a badger-cam, watching a sett, on the night before we left, we finally saw a badger!
• Winfell forest is a conservation area for the red squirrel, which the grey squirrels kill with diseases and such. so its a really important place, we saw many! i was so pleased! we also saw pheasants, other game birds, and lots and lots and lots of birds, a few bunnies and random bugs :)

Center Parcs holiday!

these were in Penrith

me on and riding a bike! (theres a first for everything, and yes, it had 3 wheels, and yknow? i want one, i didnt fall off once!)

we were in a 'safe zone' for the reds!

the 'center' and lake from the pub

me after our photoshoot! (avec une starbucks iced tea...)

and the boyf with his latte

me, the boyf and Bob the Harris Hawk (not native to our country, he was a teen and very rebellious and he let me, and only me, out of the group stroke him, the owner thought it could be the fact that my hair and his body were the same colour, so he felt comfortable!)

quack

the view from where we were doing archery!

and some shots of the lake at sundown!

Hausfrau

this moving milarkey isnt all its cracked up to be, i'm moving into a house with 4 storeys, everytime i take a step now my legs want to buckle beneath me ive gone up and down them so many times, i have new muscles in my arms and im physically and mentally shattered. the entire of the bottom floor has been taken over by white goods and glyns books, the rest of the house has been infiltrated by a small percentage of my stuff. and boy to i have alot of stuff, my dads got a massive car, and mines pretty roomey if you stack stuff right and all in all we've done at least 10 car journeys. and i STILL have alot of stuff @netherfield. *sigh* and mums moving everything she can. she was noseying around my room when i was at work the other day to see whatelse she could move. its getting beyond a joke, i want to move but id be happier to be moving at my own pace, not, as per usual, hers. ugh.

finally tho its starting to feel a bit more like ours (for the past week and a bit its felt more like a holiday house), we have a bed, a 2 seater sofa and a giant poof, all the kitchen stuff and my crap littered about, and ive put all my halloween decor up around fireplace in the room we spend most of our time in, the diner-kitchen.

franny came over the other night and i made new potato chips and pizzas and we set up all my sylvanian families stuff in the attic (right in the middle of the floor so nothing else can now go up there without fear of standing on a woodland creature :D )


speaking of woodland creatures. we have a squirrel, quite a devious litte bitch it is too. we can put out an entire case of nuts and there'd be none left in an hour. the garden is overflowing and mum has said shes coming to hack it all to death. i have no choice in this. the underfloor heating wont work in the kitchen, nor will the shower in the attic bathroom, and the previous owners still have a set of keys. bastards.