New car!!

Hello my lovelies :) I am slowly getting there! I have been at my new work almost a month, in my room in Westbury, two weeks now and settled and finally today, bought my car! What a to do! I was starting to have a panick, I had to return the hire car this week, so was cutting it fine! Went out all day yesterday to the outskirts of Bristol and saw a few I liked, went back today and payed a deposit :) it gets delivered on Tuesday to my work :)

Now I can squeal Kia! every time I see that silly add on telly! Lol

 

I sacrificed air con and automatic again :( but on a bargaining tool, it has Cruize Control and I love Cruize control! I think for the month or two of warmish day, I can put the back window down, also on a plus, it's got a bit more grunt than my other little car, so I can glide up and down the English, Scottish and European countryside with ease :) I will have to get use to having the indicators on the proper side again without turning the wipers on every five minutes! It has been owned by a father, then his daughter used it before selling it, only has 40,000 miles on the clock which for a 9 yr old car is pretty remarkable! I have seen all the MOT certificates and it has a good record as far as service, so hopefully it will serve me well :) nice and light to drive, just have to conquer the light clutch, but that always happens with a new car!

I wanted to go for a drive today to show you the amazing autumn colours, but might do that next weekend now in my new car! It is absolutely beautiful at the moment, pictures don't actually do it justice, I never tire of just getting out on the country roads and looking at all the green fields, look like patchwork, the yellows and now all the leaves are all shades of golden browns and yellows, just magnificent! British people say to me, why are you here? They just don't realise what beauty they have in their country! Yes there are small lanes, crowded houses and the weather can be grim most of the time, but even when it is, there is always something nice to see :) I love this time of year, there is definItely a crispness in the air and you do need to think about taking a scarf with you some days and a coat, but then other days, it's glorious and the sun is shining and you think, how can that be, in the middle of November? One who has always celebrated my birthday in the blistering heat, as in next weekend, I have to say I really enjoy the change here, urging up to go for a walk outside on an autumn day. I'm thinking next weekend, going to go find some really big trees, with lots of fallen leaves and really have some fun scooping up the leaves, throwing some up into the air, providing it's fine and sunny and not raining, then they would me mush on the ground!

I haven't organised anything yet, but I am hoping to go out next weekend for my birthday :) I might arrange a night out at the George in Nunney :) my landlady Val, has her birthday the 28th of Nov, so might be lovely to get a meal if nothing else.

I have got a new address as you most of you are aware, so just private message me and I will give you my address :) i have a few more pics for those that may be interested.

A few pis of the kitchen

Dining room

Looking out the Dining window

Where I live in Westbury is a very famous landmark, some of you may have already seen it or one similar :)

Well that's it for another week my beautiful family and friends, I hope you are all well and I look forward to showing you some of my new adventures from now onwards, as I start to build a new story or adventure, starting now, Christmas is not far around the corner, god scary really! Maybe I can get away for a weekend by then :)

 

Love to you all until next post xxxxxx

 

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Westbury, Wiltshire, home of the White horse and moi!

Just a quick one tonight to all my family and friends xxx to let you all know I'm all moved in to my room in Westbury. I'm living with a lovely lady Val and her mum Sheila :) it's in a 3 story house, I have a room on the top floor and my own bathroom as some of you may have seen by the pics, that I have posted already. It's a spacious home, I get to share a nice kitchen and dining room and lounge area with Val and her Mum has the whole second floor. It's known as "The Beck House" which means "pond house"

Basically this is right outside our front door!

I nice brightly painted walls and I even have birds singing in the trees on my wall!

 

And a Wiltshire Country Loo! Lol Moo Cow patern and all!

I cannot believe the amount of stuff that I accumulated in 17 months! I have had to sell most of my stuff and ended up giving away quite a bit of stuff and yet I still have heaps of stuff I had to move over yesterday and up three flights of stairs! I'm not buying anying now except a car! Which I now have to, as my other one was written off by insurance, so now that is my next task, find a car!

I called home today, was hoping to catch the kids :( they were busy, but I did get to speak briefly with my sister Suz, then got cut off :( wasn't meant to be! I'm going to try again next weekend! Big birthday weekend at home, Shirley's birthday was on 31st October, then my younger Brother making a milestone birthday on the 5th, turning 50! I also got to speak with Lita :) I was just pleased that someone answered from home, I tried several numbers, all busy on your weekend :)

Well I best finish off for now, it's 11pm, got work in the morning :) will be car hunting this week, so who know, you might see me in a sporty number next week! Lol

Love to all till next blog xxx

Ps planning a trip away soon :) maybe for my birthday, or around Christmas :)

 

 

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Moving in to my new place!

Well hello to all :) it has been a busy three weeks, with me getting settled into my new work. I now am officially working in the Funeral industry again, have to say that I'm happy to be back in the industry again! It seems that I was meant to continue on in the field, I started in 8 years ago. I do feel a little bit like a fish out of water still, as there are things I don't know here, that I knew well in Oz and I have made a few slip ups, still learning things, but I guess I will feel better when I have things down pat, like I once did!

I have finally found a new place to live :) I have been staying with my neighbour for a few weeks since, I moved out of my flat, so that has been a huge help, as I had a few set back's initially with a couple of places that didn't come about in Wells. I finally found a room last week, and will be moving in totally tomorrow. I no longer will be living in Somerset, I now will be residing in Wiltshire :) For those who want to know of a landmark nearby, look for the White Horse, (chalk) in the mountainside in the middle of Wiltshire. I will be on the other side of Frome, so Lita, if your reading this, I'm not too far away from there :) I am about a 17 min walk to the nearest train station, which I am very pleased a out, means I can get I to Bath and Bristol, nice and quick and if I want a weekend in London, for a show, it's just over two hours away :) just over £45 to London return, so that's a bit better than what it was from Castle Cary, from where we had to go previously.

Just before moving out, I had a bit of a send off, with all my neighbour's, so that was nice :) we had nice weather and were able to sit under the big cedar tree near the pond and have a few drinks. It has been a lovely time here, but I feel time for me to move on now. I will be happy to move on now to my new place, which is just a room, in someone's home in Westbury Leigh, just past Frome. Moving in with a lovely lady and her Mum.

Neighbours giving me a send off :)

We're heading into a beautiful autumn now, all the leaves are falling and it looks pretty most of the time, apart from when the wind and rain decide to visit. I will be planning a couple of weekend trips, once I am settled and I have paid for bills, after the move, bought the new car etc. I would love to do something for my birthday, or even towards Christmas time, I hope that I get to be with some people around that time. I miss the kids, hopefully I will be able to get some time off! Today is my older sister Shirley's birthday, Happy birthday Shirley xxx I hope you have had a lovely day out today at Our House :) hope the gave you something special for your birthday :) I hope my card and parcel arrived on time! I hope to ring either this weekend or next, to catch the family for all the birthdays xx My young brother, Steve, turning the big 50 as well! It's all happening this year, sad in a way that I'm not there, but I'm sure they will celebrate on my behalf! Love to you all!

Well I'm off to bed now moving tomorrow, so need my sleep! Will have some pics of new place and hopefully new car and work pics next week or two!

Love to you all, until next blog xxxx

 

 

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Hoorayyyyy! it's official, I have permanent work :)

Hello to my beautiful family and friends xxx I am so very sorry for the delay in my blogs in the past couple of months, I have been skint and unable to send my usual lengthy weekly blog :( As most of you know the dilemma i have had with deciding to stay or to come home!

Well it has been taken out of my hands! As some of you know I have had three weeks work with the local authority (The Mendip District Council, working in the Environmental Health Department, in their Compliance Department) which I was truly grateful for but now even more exciting news, is that I have now been offered a full time, permanent position! I will be working once again in the Funeral Industry :) I will be working for a sister company of Forsey and Sons, which is called W J Trotman. I will be employed as a Secretary, but those of us who have worked in the industry, we know, it becomes, much, much more! The set up reminds me a lot of Medina in size, and is about to be all done up, to be in line with the office's in Glastonbury, so that will be nice.

I can't tell you how excited I am about now :) To actually know that I have a job and I can start to plan my journey, the one I came over here to start! I have stability in a job and now I can look for a new place, nearby, for a room. I know I won't have the beautiful flat that I have had for 17 months, but it's all relative, i will be just as happy in a lovely room in a shared house, it's about finding and exploring new friends now and I'm open to new possibilities.

It is new, new, new in every aspect of my life, right now, new job, new flat or house share, new car ( my old one is no more :( long story, but basically, it wasn't worth the money it was going to take to fix it :( so my insurance company have written it off! In the meantime, I'm driving a hire car around!

So firstly, I need to get myself packed up and out of the flat, by next Friday, whilst staying at work all week! Carpets cleaned Thursday - check, window cleaner coming Friday morning - check, hopefully by Thursday morning I will have all my stuff out of the flat mostly, might have to sleep on the kitchen floor on the mat and blow up mattress :) so the carpets can dry! I have all my food and utensils out on the table at the moment. Going to ask the neighbours if they might want any tomorrow :) then it's pack the car up with stuff I don't need, pack up my bed and wrap up mattress and slide down the stairs, hopefully I will have somewhere to store it, or be able to sell or give it away! Then it's only the rug and down to the last few clothes in the wardrobe for work this week, food for the week and each night I can wash another window inside and tidy some more each day :) I can't believe that I have accumulated so much stuff already! If I had to fly home, I would have had to get rid of heaps! I did sell my couch, my TV, my microwave, coffee table and nest of tables. I have someone coming for tomorrow for a tripod. Just the bed and the crockpot now to sell and my table in the kitchen, if the don't go this week, they will be going to charity.

I have had a nice couple of week ends lately, one in particular, was when I went for a walk with my neighbour Rani and we picked wild Blackberries :) we ducked in and out of lanes, missing the prickly bushes to get to the fruit, carrying our doc leaf incase we got got stung by the nettles! Trying to look like we were just inspecting the flowers as we passed by, but in fact we were the serious blackberry pickers with, kitchen glad bags with ziplock tops to keep them from leaking everywhere, so you could quickly stash the evidence inside our handbag's, as we were confronted by a farmer coming by on his tractor. (Sure he knew what we were up to! Lol)

On this inspection of the flora and fauna, look what I found, or should I say, Rani found! I photographed :)

It was basking in the sun :)

The results of a day's harvest, I must say they tasted pretty darn good!

September was a good month for visitors and one very special friend from Perth, was my dear friend Cathy :) with whom I use to work with at Bowra's. She came over for a month's holiday, where she was heading down to The Isles of Scilly, where she lived as a child and she also had a bank reunion in Wales I think. I loved seeing her and here she is with one of her friends from school day's, Malcolm, who lives not that far from me, in Somerset, so invited them both for dinner that night and a good night was had, a few drinks and a few good laugh's :)

Cheers Cathy :)

My next few pics are of a gorgeous place Rani and I discovered, when we were looking for somewhere for me to move to. It was in a little village called Nunney. I loved the place! These pics don't do it justice, I'm afraid, we had a great day wandering around the Nunney Castle, which was build in the 14th Century, was owned by a Frenchman and it was eventually cannoned. It was a small castle, more like someone's home, small moat around the castle, but it was very fascinating.

Just a few old places around the streets of Nunney

Ruins of Nunney Castle

 

 

This castle was built in the 1370's but of course some graffiti from 1865 still exists!

Looking up through one of the tower's

 

 

 

Yes I can see you Rani :)

Now these pics below are from last weekend I believe, could have been the weekend before, we went into Wells for our normal cruise around the Market's and on our way back to the car park, we were walking past St Cuthbert's Chapel and a wedding was happening, lots of people milling around. Outside the church were these beautiful horses :) with their purple plumes. They were so calm and handled all the people, patiently waiting for the bride and groom, as they had their photo's taken in the grounds of the Chapel. I had to smile, the male horse, just quietly snorted and was tapping his hoof against the road, as if to say, come on, enough now, I want to go!

 

It was so romantic - this carriage, sort of expected to see Cinderella, stepping down tp from it :)

Wells is such an interesting place :) I'm finding more and more places now around the mendips which is near where I currently live. Today I drove out to Cranmore, which is just the other side of Shepton Mallet, which is just through a lovely village called Doulting, which is just near where my new work will be :) I found a really great pub at Cranmore today and the young guy behind the bar was ever so helpful, he gave me all these names of places close by to look for rooms, can see me going back there :) it was much like Nunney, but quiter. I think I need to be around a bit more social activity now, be nice to wander down to the pub for Sunday lunch :) and then walk home :)

Well that is about all the news I have at the moment, I will have photos soon of my new job, new colleagues at work, new home and car, so hopefully a bit more interesting things on the horizon now.

Sending my love to you all, a special big hug to Janet in Darlington xxx I hope your feeling better soon and I'm thinking of you xx A belated birthday to my sister Suzie xx I hope you got my card, might be able to buy you a gift now :)

Until next blog xxxxxx

 

 

 

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