This week we embarked on a trip up north to visit family. We'd booked a small cottage in the village where I grew up, so I was looking forward to the break. As a consequence, Monday morning was spent packing my suitcase and any food we needed for the trip. I also had to post a letter before we left and dropped into the allotment on the way back, to deadhead my dahlias, as they were still going strong. I'd been meaning to do it for a while, so it was good to get it done. There had been a lot of chat on the allotment What's App chat the previous few days, around the purchase of a new shed and dismantling the old one, which is something we need to assist with on our return.
We eventually set off on our travels at about 12.30 pm and drove up north. Luckily, the traffic was good and there were no hold ups anywhere. When we got there, OH went to visit his brother, whilst LB and I did a bit of food shopping and visited a couple of charity shops. I didn't buy much, just a dust pan and brush for £1.75 that we needed at home and that I wanted to use to clean my parents headstone in the churchyard. It always gets covered in grass cuttings, so I like to brush it down when I visit and decorate it with some flowers. (I did this the following day). I bumped into another family member whilst out and about, that I hadn't seen in a long time and it was nice to chat to her and catch up with her news.
We then headed to OH's mum's house for supper and had a meal and a catch up before retiring to our cottage and getting settled in for the evening. It was a lovely little cottage and was ideal in terms of what we needed for our visit. OH walked up to the local pub for a beer, whilst LB and I watched back to back episodes of Daisy May and Charlie Cooper's new show about hunting for ghosts and chatted. They didn't seem to find many ghosts, but their dog had more luck in one episode, when it got very sensitive at one point and refused to go into a particular room at a castle. I have to say that this was the most convincing bit of the show, as animals can't act. Our dog was also very sensitive to particular energies. I'm convinced there's one in our house, not necessarily malevolent, but our dog would often bark at one particular corner of the dining room, when there appeared to be nothing there.
Anyway, I didn't sleep too well the first night, so I was a bit tired on Tuesday morning, but we got up and ready and headed out. OH ran all the way to his brother's house and while I was waiting for LB to get up and ready, I watched Episode 1 of The Forsytes, which aired on TV the other week. LB and I then met OH at his brother's house before heading into Hull town centre for a few hours. We visited the old part of town, which is always interesting and had a good mooch around. There are lots of vintage shops and record shops and a few very inexpensive charity shops too. We had lunch in Trinity Market, which had lots of lovely food kiosks. We all ate Indian food, which was really nice.
LB and I visited a couple of the charity shops en route. I bought a few pairs of jeans in different coloured denims from both Emmaus and a local hospice shop. The prices were so good at around £2 per pair. I just couldn't get them cheaper anywhere else if I tried, so it was a good opportunity to buy them for the fabric I need. I bought 3 pairs of jeans and a denim skirt, which if it fits, I'm going to swap out with one in my wardrobe that I bought last time we visited Yorkshire, as I prefer the style of it. The one I like the least will be cut up along with the jeans, to create one of LB's Xmas presents. She wants me to make her a patchwork denim pouffe for under her computer desk. I ended up spending just over £10 on denim and denim clothes for fabric for this project and I'll post about it when I get around to making it. I think I've got plenty enough fabric now and I may even have enough to make another for myself too.
Other than this and buying some flowers and groceries, I didn't spend much else on the trip, as OH treated us to lunch and then supper at the pub with his mum.
We spent the remainder of our last evening watching TV back at the cottage, as we were all super tired. We started watching a new series on Netflix called Untamed, which is set in Yosemite National Park in the US. It was pretty good. Thankfully, I slept really well the second night and we then got up, packed up, made our final visits to family before heading back south to London.
OH and I will probably make one more trip north before Xmas, but we'll be staying in London for Xmas this year, as LB is working the Panto and we won't be leaving her home alone. I'm looking forward to a quiet Xmas not working in retail this year. It's probably going to be our lowest key Xmas ever, as we're keeping gifting minimal this year. With only 50 or so days to go, it's not that far away now.
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