The bad news is time flies, the good news is you're the pilot!!

First of all I am so so sorry, 
for one I didn't realise it had been 2 months (cough +) since my last blog and secondly I'd forgotten in that short time how to even find my blog and sign in again to start writing again. My bad. On a plus side it means that we are starting to enjoy our life her so much that we don't have the time to be blogging etc, who am I kidding working from 8 am to 10pm most days. The only glimpse I see of the sea is the journey back from little mans school. Saying that we do have a nice view of a house that does have a seaview glass half full and all that :). Luckily we do have the #brackleshamboardriders kite cam that gives us a direct seaview albeit via the laptop http://www.kitesurfcam.co.uk/
Today is raining and it still looks good!!
Bracklesham Bay & The Witterings are an abslute joy to live in, you get a real sense of community here and people seem to get along. Haven't witnessed any mums fighting in the playground as yet. Everyone talks to you there is none of this keep your head down and avoid eye contact at all costs. Hubby even struggles to pay for his petrol here as the cashier just keeps talking despite the 5 people behind still queing lol. 

So are there any downsides I have to be honest here yes but you get (surprisingly) very quickly used to it. The birds, obviously the weather has been getting warmer leading to leaving you window open at night. First morning sounded like this a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds !!

Then there are the planes, the planes. When we moved her the lettings agents arranged for our front door to be painted. Conversation went something like this Painter "lovely here just the planes are quite noisy" Hubby "we've lived by Heathrow and on the Northolt flypass so we'll be fine" 


But they practice everyday, everyday round and round and round again. If I wasn't working and sitting out in the garden watching them with a cool glass of drink in my hand I probably wouldn't moan so much but as it is all I can hear is the planes I can't see them.

Saying that our neighbours are trying to sell their boat and on a Sunday morning when they start up that engine good grief you know it. That is loud!! But also very seaside to have a boat in the driveway and when that moves our front garden will be exposed to the world weeds and all. We have had some quotes to get it tidied up one was £480 (how can I afford to put in any flowers after that) the other £40 guess which one hubby shook hands with ;)


Talking of the hubby he is loving his early Fathers day gift of a 4 burner gas BBQ. And I am really really loving the taste and crunch of his food. Enough said!!


So I'm starting to think that I might be losing a little bit of weight, slowly of course the reason little man has taking a liking to Dairy Milk to say I am most displeased would be an understatement. In fact when I say taking a liking he can eat a strip of chocolate faster than me, which really takes some doing. Like mother like son, poor kid.
So we will start the 7 steps to overcoming our chocolate addiction!http://www.wikihow.com/Overcome-a-Chocolate-Addiction
Wish us luck, we're going to need it! That's if we open the link ;)

Oh let me get back to some downsides to living by the beach. Chip shop queues  Not quite that bad apparently that image is Seaton on Good Friday. But on a Friday in the Witterings is was still pretty packed and the summer season hasn't kicked into gear yet, probably means lots more BBQ's (sarcasm gently hidden)
plus side is you get to have your fish & chips on the beach 


I even skyped my mum & dad from the beach, life is good!
and now a little relaxing therapy for you, just close your eyes (don't forget to press the play button first)http://dai.ly/x25zjei
Ps as I am so lapse with my blogs I've also started a FB page so I can do little snipits too welcome to join and share your experiences of living by the bay #brackleshambay #eastwitterins #westwittering #selsey
https://www.facebook.com/escapingtothebay2016/

TTFN!!

Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get - Forrest Gump

You know you have a serious problem when you are trailing through Ebay listings for chocolate Easter eggs and of course they can't be any old chocolate they have to be Cadburys buttons eggs in the medium size as I don't like the chocolate to be too thick but too show I'm not too particular I will also eat Lindt bunny rabbits .
In fact I could go on and on which these images as each and every one seems to strike a chord (funnily enough) with me! So other than sending hubby out on an almost daily basis on the hunt for more & more chocolate I think you can safely say that the diet went completely out the window thanks to the move. Why the move you say well, without moving house I wouldn't be stressed, saying goodbye to friends & family I wouldn't be sad and that in turn becomes my chocolate NEED you notice I didn't say want.and also we can't find the scales through the move and without the scales well I can't weigh myself so what would be the point of losing weight if I don't know I'm losing the weight. There is logic there somewhere. Anyway the hubster has set a deadline for us to start our healthy eating regime again the 15th April that's when we'll hand back the keys to the old house and will finally be able to focus on our normal life without rushing back to clean, paint (don't ask) throw. Poor hubby has a new best friend at the dump he's been there so many times recently the last count tipped into double figures and as we are more or less and island here we don't need to find the closest dump as the dump comes to you. Yes a large truck arrives into town hangs around all day for one day a week so locals can take all their dump stuff to them.  TOP stuff, little things please little minds and we are pleased.

So we have sort of settled in, there are still more boxes around the house that we would like opened but with nowhere to go as yet, and then there is the mass of boxes arriving also to make the house into our home as you do. Which leads me gently into my next obsession pinterest  I didn't know what I've been doing all these years without it. Haven't started on Instagram but no doubt that will follow in my quest to become a smart mum, see the link there smart technology.. I now have a thousand different ideas for my new home and garden and without a lot of money my ideas are just floating around on my Pinterest wall not going anywhere fast https://uk.pinterest.com/littlecharmco/
I have now been in the new home for a week strangely feels like longer probably by the fact that I had to reopen the business the day that the internet went back on,

I knew I should have waited a few days. Hubby hadn't unpacked his work boxes so he didn't need to open so quickly.

This close proximity could cause a few problems methinks.    Obviously not a picture of the two of us as its far too tidy and I mostly work in my pyjamas but I am now wearing the black pyjama bottoms to confuse anyone that might come to the door but soon I'll have to get dressed each morning    as we'll have one child going in one direction to school and the other 3 miles in the opposite direction & until the school bus pass gets arranged we'll be splitting the school travel.  I guess I could always do a lazy approach to my clothes wearing on second thoughts I might receive one of these letters.

Oh lordy!

So we are just a few roads from the beach and thus far have made it there once, but we have been busy. The hubster and I walked (shocking I know) not really knowing the route just the rough gest of where we thought the direction was (maybe we should have taken the car). It was a glorious evening none of the children wanted to come as they were too busy with their virtual lives  so the hubster and I trotted off, met with our lovely next door neighbour & finally made our way to the beach the reason we are living where we are. Took the trusted selfie of ourselves on the beach

 and carried on walking along the beach hoping to find a little short cut that we could find to get us to the beach within a matter of minutes ok it only took us 15minutes to walk there but wouldn't it be nicer if for example you live here

I can't share any more information than that (as the last time I shared a link to a house my blog got taken down, I have learnt my lesson well / hence the link to the Madonna song, sorry) other than the house is over a million and is just 2 roads away from us. 

So who would like to see inside our new house???

Hee Hee

(slight update, I gave up on the quest to find Easter eggs as even I'm not stupid enough to spend £10 on a tiny egg that would have cost £1.50 so I went for 100 lindt teddies instead

TTFN!!!

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity - Albert Einstein

So I've moved or rather should I say I've run away from the old house as it is in utter chaos and have left it in the capable (albeit close to breaking) hubby. Boxes are everywhere, shelves remain unpacked and apparently we have now run out of boxes and the movers should be arriving at any moment. Ask me again why I like moving???
I now don't - apart from the belief that we need a new start, fresh air, a life by the sea blah blah blah. Ah this is just the start. So I drove down with my 2 youngest yesterday and hubby brought down Willis (our dog) as well as another mountain of boxes. We all slept on the floor and apart from waking this morning with the back from hell and tiredness like never before I feel remarkably upbeat. Little man is more than happy with his new bedroom and is currently sitting on a stool in an empty bedroom playing with his ds. a positive sign of things to come hopefully. The house feels like our home already weirdly. Now the bad points I went to sleep on the floor (now I won't even do camping I might consider glamping but only again if it is a proper bed so that should explain how bad it is at home to make me want to sleep on a hard floor. An alarm or rather a bleeping sound goes off every minute and I swear it felt like every minute possibly around 2am I finally got up used the little mans stool and took the blasted batteries out of the smoke alarm. Have no fear we were still safe there are not 1, not 2 but 3 smoke alarms on the upstairs landing so we should be ok. Then there is the creaking whenever you sleep in a strange place its always hard to sleep and yes you guessed it I didn't have my meds but to be fair I wouldn't have felt right taking my meds (even if I'd remembered to pack them) as they really do knock me out for the night. CREAKING FLOORBOARDS . So all night I heard these floorboards going making noises even when everyone was asleep they just creaked and groaned. I had option I stayed in bed and ignored it because the likelihood of it being a ghost  or a burglar were quite slim. One its fairly a modern house unless its been built on a .......................................... oh no, no ignore me of course it wasn't. A burglar hmmm perhaps they'd be better waiting until we had some things in the house to steal. So anyway I got up to check and of course there was nothing around, phew!
So this morning woke extremely early not helped by the fact I haven't put up any curtains yet, so the light of day came streaming through the windows.

Now my biggest bugbear about this house, our en suite they have a door length mirror on the back of the en suite door so when you sit on the loo you well you see yourself going to the loo and its not really a pretty site might have been 20 years ago but definitely not anymore. So first thing on hubbies agenda after the movers have gone will be to take that monstrosity down it even has a crack in the mirror that has to be bad karma.
Now I have to get up and walk Willis do I do what I want to do and drive to the doggy beach and walk him or should that be something that hubby would want to do too, methinks I should wait for hubby for the beach walk or ok you got me the real walk I'd like to give Willis would be me staying in bed (ok the lovely floor) and have a nice cup of tea whilst Willis walks himself over to the park hmmm
could he do that??? So no I will have to bite the bullet and get up.........................................hmmm in a minute.
By the way the rooms have all changed since I've now spent a night here so the dining room / kitchen will now be seaside themed, the living room, warm, cosy and shabby chic, bedroom romantic and floral (hubby will love that)https://plus.google.com/share?.url=http%3A%2F%2Fgifrific.com%2Ftony-stark-shakes-his-head%2F
Hee Hee
TTFN!!

I generally avoid tempation unless I can't resist it - Mae West

Avoidance techniques in full flow today. So all my shops are closed no work to do, just a day ready to get packing, throwing rubbish away etc etc and what am I doing blogging still in bed at 10.30am.
 From this picture I would say I'm at the bottom 4 rungs of the step, well not the bottom one because I do want everything packed up but I seriously don't know how I am going to do it. A lot of my illness is perceived brain reflexes so something that would make the average person feel cold would make me feel freezing, likewise with pain a single touch can hurt. Fibromyalgia is quite simply the most confusing illness to try to explain to people and when you look normal, well as normal as you can look after putting on nearly 4 stone since having the illness. Anyway enough of that I'm hopeful the sea air will be all the medicine I need.

I might start my packing with getting rid of all my shoes all I'll need now is flip flops and wellie boots.

Count down 5 days to move - well I move on day 4 so 4 days to move. I haven't done yadda yadda you've heard the story I can fill the blog with what I haven't done yet and fill maybe a sentence with what I have done so will start being proactive.

Today's plan -
Dining Room - Books (throw - pack)
Kitchen - Drawers (throw 2 drawers full of stuff I know we haven't touched in the 3.5 years we've been here)
Living Room (Toys pack)
Pack up cushions, throws, pictures etc
En suite (pack - throw makeup there's a lot)
Evening - change of address for current companies (I know I know should have been done weeks ago) in particular my Coast magazine subscription :).

So this is sadly a very short blog, but if I don't get up soon the removal people will just be taking me in the bed


TTFN!!

Life is Short - Smile while you still have Teeth!

So I've been a bit quiet recently that's hmmm because I haven't really done much else in the way of preparing for the new move.
This blog was even written in my diary 6 days ago and its taken me this long to type it onto my blog. Taking avoidance measures to the extreme methinks. Although I have arranged for the broadband & TV to be put on the day after the move, priorities and all that. So as I said I have been doing anything and everything to avoid even thinking about the move. Work has also been really slow recently so my avoidance techniques have had to work really hard.
So I've found time to escape by having a lovely afternoon tea / cake afternoon with my best friends and yes that cake was mine and it was extremely delicious and I'll be back to the diet once all the birthday celebrations are out of the way although I think that cake alone has added on the stone that I'd just lost heigh ho it tasted good ;).
Dinner with my lovely friends that I met when I studied nursing. When I see them I always yearn for the good old days when we were nursing students & having many pee in your pants moments. I can get them now just by a sudden movement oh the joys of getting old.  So today is hubbys birthday & the day we get the keys to our new house so why oh why am I awake and writing this at 5am! We arrived at the Norfolk Arms in Arundel
https://www.sjhotels.co.uk/arundel at 8pm & so had to book our table for dinner very very quickly. Hubby had the 21 day rump steak and declared his peanut brittle panna cotta the BEST dessert he has EVER had. High praise indeed for he who is normally almightily sarcastic about everything. So we're back in our hotel room by 10. Hubby made me a Hot Chocolate .......................................
 will leave the rest to your imagination & then I promptly fell asleep without even the smallest sip of my hot chocolate. You know you're getting old when you don't even switch on the TV in your hotel room. Downside to that was I forgot to take my meds which means I ALWAYS sleep badly and wake up at the crack of dawn. So having used up all my lives on cookie jam & candy crush etc its now hmmmm 5.30am.
So I started writing as you do!

I had the strangest dream possibly what woke me, another part of my illness is when you don't have your meds you aren't really sleep think of it more of the very lightest sleep and you can remember every single part of your dreams because its more like day dreaming. He who shall not be named (my ex) who had managed to break my heart again this time by way of a dream (things never change nor do people) . So in this dream I was in a flat with him and another woman (ok I'm being coy the 3 of us were in bed not doing anything but sleeping as far as my dream went anyway and I woke to discover the 3 of us) this other woman who I swear went to my school as did my ex and yet I haven't seen her since (even on FB) and that's a good 30+ years so how did she penetrate my brainwaves. So gist of it all he was begging me not to leave, she was still there, I left end of story (strange dream) Kelly Clarkson's song always comes to mind when I think of him, Because of YOU only took me 8 years to get over him. But I wasn't a nun during those 8 years I still had a life, enjoyed my life and loved every minute which just me alone with my kids.I am now so utterly proud of the adults they have grown up into and my eldest is just about to embark on her own new chapter of her life by moving into a flat with her lovely boyfriend. Cue my opportunity to once again put on the Mamma Mia song that always reminds me of my daughter and ALWAYS makes me cry oh why oh why do they grow up so fast!

My oldest son is doing really well he has his own flat, enjoys his college life and has a girlfriend who chases him around the Uxbridge shopping precinct (enough said about that) & has grown into the most thoughtful adult. My middle child will be off to University in September if he ever makes up his mind as to which one to go to. He is the most well mannered, polite and courteous young adult you could ever meet just don't expect a conversation from him.
My little man would be a blog in himself at school no doubt he is quiet and courteous at home he turns into what can only be described as an XBOX demon . I worry about what the neighbours and new neighbours will think about the rampaging super collateral shot killing machine that is my son. He is so loud I feel like I have a permanent headache. Then there is my youngest snuggly little monster he is just starting to make his adventures and we are both hoping that once we move he will finally find his way into his own bed (excuse being that his sister is currently sleeping in his bed but to be fair he doesn't really need an excuse)  .

Anyway hubby has finally woke up so I need to make him his birthday coffee (once a year is probably my limit.

TTFN!!

***Update - Hubby had a strange dream last night too he dreamt that my daughter kept hogging the washing machine by washing her marbles - and I though I was strange!!***