general blah

I have slightly lost track of the gifts thing.  If I am honest.  But regardless of that things are in fact going well.  Well, when I say well..... it appears that the world of politics in this country is actually imploding.  However, seeing as I am not concentrating on that over which I have no control, its not so bad.

Here in Brighton we have a new house colour and a new door.  Its quite striking and I am very happy with it.  Hub wanted a slightly more slatey blue colour, but we found that very tricky to find and Bro persuaded us to go full on - off black.  Either way its much nicer than it was.

I watched When We Were Kings on Friday night. And also managed to get extremely drunk and hence had a HORRIBLE hangover on Saturday morning.  Truly the WORST.  I shall not be drinking for some time.  And I may not touch Cava ever again.  Famous last words of course, but its been a very long time since I have had anything like such a hideous hangover.

Sunday we went to visit friends who live in Ashdown Forest. I discovered that both my husband and my son would rather live in a forest than by the sea.  Which is really disturbing and I dream of being by the sea.  I guess my son won't be living with us forever.  And I guess there must be forests by the sea.  Perhaps  its not a wash out.

I went to a swish in the evening and kitted myself out with a whole new summer wardrobe.  If we do ever get any summer of course! Its been so dark and rainy.  I have got a fabulous little mustard yellow swing jacket by Autograph.  And that makes me very happy.

I am still doing the 5:2.  Today was my first fast day of week 2.  It was really easy!  I haven't even hit my 500 calories yet and am just eating dinner.


I am nearing the end of The Art of Money.  I am rather pleased that I am doing quite a lot of it already.  One thing I have really enjoyed from it, is the renaming of your expenses in a way that makes it all more fun.  So for example, Mortgage repayments can be "our beautiful home"  or something like that.  And its a way of aligning financial records with values.  So seeing as a beautiful home is definiately something I value, spending on that, seems more appropriate.

Speaking of homes.  or houses, it seems that my brother is investing in a holiday house in Hvar Croatia.  or on it,  Its an island.   And the house is in Stari Grad. And as his savings alone do not cover the cost of it, we are going in as well.  And my parents have chipped in with a chunk too, as well as my brother's best friend.  Its rather exciting.  In fact its extremely exciting and not at all something I was thinking of doing.  Its kind of the opposite of the whole "Brexit" nonsense really.   Sod it, lets buy somewhere in Europe.  So all going well, and the pound not continuing to plummet, we will be going to Croatia soon.