So I have finally warmed up from the weekend's car boot.
Woohoo!
I went to yoga on Monday which was very painful for my legs. They so need it though.
Then Tuesday was first day at military workout day in the park. I was very nervous as I cannot do burpees, sit ups, planking or anything that involves strength. It turned out to be a laugh - it reminded me of a games lesson from primary school where you play about and do little team games. The girls did warn that it is normally harder, I wonder if the leader was making it easy for the newbies.
The fitness and increased activity level is of course happening because we will be moving into Summertime = skimpy clothes! I'm sure Christmas feasting will undo all my efforts, but the exercise is apparently good for you anyway.
We've been selling furniture this week on Gumtree. Only 2 bits to go.
I must add that despite all this progress in shifting stuff, a healthy amount of bickering is going on. Moving house is supposed to be one of the most stressful things and we are having the odd rant at one another. Its no big deal but I suppose I'm mentioning it as a record that arguments occurred and were dealt with, we kissed, made up and moved on.
I hope once we move into the inlaws, we can chill out a bit and just sort out bank accounts, mobile phone contracts, other admin bits, and more importantly, building up our networks over there to get employment sorted pronto. It won't really be ideal to argue at their house either, potential awkwardness alert!
Separate to the move I am being super tempted by all these bloody Black Friday offers. I might use the offers not on myself but on my Xmas shopping. I've spent no time thinking about what I might get people though.
Toodle pip, just a little touch-base.
Sunny x
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Sunday, 23 November 2014
Car booty 2 + bone cold
Yo!
7 days left in the flat. It'll be the end of an era, the first home we've shared together. I'll have to get some photos to show the future kids.
Today was car boot sale 2 and was the Real Deal. Up at 4am, queuing outside the empty lot for 1 hour to get a good spot before it opened at 6am. Last week, many people had told us that it was full of foreigners wanting everything for 20p and that stuff gets nicked on you. Plus it was raining at half 4. Potential nightmare!
When we pulled in at 6am, it was dark. The buyers lurking around at 6am ON A SUNDAY had torches. We opened our doors and they were right there "have you got any mens trainers". WOAH. Hold your horses lady. It took us about 10 mins to get to grips with everything and we told the half dozen peeps to leave us alone for 5 mins and everyone was courteous.
3 of us had 2 cars of stuff. Cleverly our tables were on the bottom, so we had to unload everything to get the tables out to put the stuff on. Anyway, we got sorted in the pitch dark and I think our first sale was our tablemats and coasters for £2. £££ woohoo!
I am still freezing cold to my core after 6 hours standing there.
The footfall was great and we sold a real varied load of items. Yes there were migrants there, but plenty of Brits too. Everybody was polite and after different things for different reasons. All types of people tried to haggle - and why not? Its part of the fun and as the seller, you choose if you take the price or not. Just say "no" with a smile. Nobody asked for anything at 20p, I think the lowest we sold was 50p.
Also no-one nicked anything and no-one had particularly noteworthy dodgy behaviour.
We made over £200 across the 2 car boots. WOOP! That will gratefully go towards buying new items in Australia to set us up again. I am not saying "re-buying" because we have had stern words with ourselves that we will not collect so must stuff again. Ever.
Managed to make carrot and lentil soup for tomorrow's lunch. This will counteract lunchtime's KFC that I gobbled down soaked in gravy after finishing the car boot.
Can't wait to eat that soup. I will feel warm again.
Sunny x
7 days left in the flat. It'll be the end of an era, the first home we've shared together. I'll have to get some photos to show the future kids.
Today was car boot sale 2 and was the Real Deal. Up at 4am, queuing outside the empty lot for 1 hour to get a good spot before it opened at 6am. Last week, many people had told us that it was full of foreigners wanting everything for 20p and that stuff gets nicked on you. Plus it was raining at half 4. Potential nightmare!
When we pulled in at 6am, it was dark. The buyers lurking around at 6am ON A SUNDAY had torches. We opened our doors and they were right there "have you got any mens trainers". WOAH. Hold your horses lady. It took us about 10 mins to get to grips with everything and we told the half dozen peeps to leave us alone for 5 mins and everyone was courteous.
3 of us had 2 cars of stuff. Cleverly our tables were on the bottom, so we had to unload everything to get the tables out to put the stuff on. Anyway, we got sorted in the pitch dark and I think our first sale was our tablemats and coasters for £2. £££ woohoo!
I am still freezing cold to my core after 6 hours standing there.
The footfall was great and we sold a real varied load of items. Yes there were migrants there, but plenty of Brits too. Everybody was polite and after different things for different reasons. All types of people tried to haggle - and why not? Its part of the fun and as the seller, you choose if you take the price or not. Just say "no" with a smile. Nobody asked for anything at 20p, I think the lowest we sold was 50p.
Also no-one nicked anything and no-one had particularly noteworthy dodgy behaviour.
We made over £200 across the 2 car boots. WOOP! That will gratefully go towards buying new items in Australia to set us up again. I am not saying "re-buying" because we have had stern words with ourselves that we will not collect so must stuff again. Ever.
Managed to make carrot and lentil soup for tomorrow's lunch. This will counteract lunchtime's KFC that I gobbled down soaked in gravy after finishing the car boot.
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| Image from bbcgoodfood.com - my soup did not look like this |
Can't wait to eat that soup. I will feel warm again.
Sunny x
Thursday, 20 November 2014
2 days ago...
I wrote...
Hello!
Well I was totally ready to
write a post today but the WiFi is not playing ball. Lovely boyf is out so I will
have to write the words and post when I can.
Made a tasteless beef &
ale casserole for tea in the slow cooker. It was particularly woeful because I
was also feeding boyfriend’s Dad. I have a 50% hit rate when it comes to meals
being good. This is partly why this is not a food blog!
So we’re moving Down Under in
Jan and my mind is hopping from one issue to another. Get a job, get a flat, close bank accounts, sell our flat contents, move
out, sell 2 cars…
So there are many things that I could concern myself and worry
about on any given day… today I was concerned about what I will be wearing when I'm there and I bought clothes. This makes no sense as we have 80kg luggage limit
for 2 people.
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| A bargacious £14.99 from H&M http://www.hm.com/gb/product/73812?article=73812-B |
Nice H&M black dress, and so cheap.
I also bought a gorgeous Forever 21 Burnout Floral Circle Skirt that was £17.50. Also so cheap and I can't wait to wear it!
I'm buying because I've read the shopping is rubbish there and expensive but I can't be the judge of that myself until January.
It's 2 days later and I'm feeling overwhelmed as we also have the landlord bringing his next tenants for a viewing so we'll need to empty the flat further and have organised almost everything into boxes.
We'll get there.
Been to your local Christmas market yet? Seems too mild to go really.
x Sunny x
Sunday, 16 November 2014
Moving + a car booty
Hiya!
Hope everyone has had a wicked weekend.
I've been at a car boot sale today - we're trying to condense 5 years of living together and 60+ joint years of life into 40kg as we're moving to Australia!
AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
We set the ball rolling in 2013 when my boyfriend did his IELTS English exam. Despite being British born and bred, he needed to prove his English level in order to get his skills assessed as being kosher for an Accountant. He tested as having superior English, which is hilarious to me.
We then did nothing further to progress our Australia idea until this year, that's for another time.
The car boot was ok. We went to an indoor car boot and we were one of about 11 tables. As we are emptying our house, we had a load of various categories of quality second-hand goods. I thought it might have been taboo to call stuff "crap" at the car boot but I needn't have worried, all the other sellers were openly telling us they were clearing out their own "crap".
We estimate we got rid of about £70 worth of stuff, taking the £10 out for the pitch and £1.40 for coffees, we had £58.60 for our troubles. The only problemilla was that footfall was non-existent after the first hour. All the old pros doing their buying rounds told us there was another boot sale 2 streets away that was heaving. We did a drive-by of that booty sale on the way home and lo-and-behold it was chocca.
Shouldawouldacoulda.
We are doing another car boot next Sunday anyway. Anything that doesn't go then will be charity shopped or tipped. We are either going to the heaving outdoor booty or the indoor one if it rains. We have been reliably informed the indoor site is heaving when its raining.
Some of the highlights we sold:
Xmas tree £3
2 x cushions + covers £3
Helly Hansen jacket £5
Metal fruit bowl 50p
Bikini (never worn with the hygiene strip still on it) 50p
photo frame + ornament £2
Books do not sell
Jigsaws do not sell - not even a Downton Abbey one!
Neither type of items got a whiff so they're being charity shopped
Can't believe the weekend is almost over.
Reduce your clutter people, it makes you feel like you've lost half a stone overnight.
x Sunny x
Hope everyone has had a wicked weekend.
I've been at a car boot sale today - we're trying to condense 5 years of living together and 60+ joint years of life into 40kg as we're moving to Australia!
AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
We set the ball rolling in 2013 when my boyfriend did his IELTS English exam. Despite being British born and bred, he needed to prove his English level in order to get his skills assessed as being kosher for an Accountant. He tested as having superior English, which is hilarious to me.
We then did nothing further to progress our Australia idea until this year, that's for another time.
The car boot was ok. We went to an indoor car boot and we were one of about 11 tables. As we are emptying our house, we had a load of various categories of quality second-hand goods. I thought it might have been taboo to call stuff "crap" at the car boot but I needn't have worried, all the other sellers were openly telling us they were clearing out their own "crap".
We estimate we got rid of about £70 worth of stuff, taking the £10 out for the pitch and £1.40 for coffees, we had £58.60 for our troubles. The only problemilla was that footfall was non-existent after the first hour. All the old pros doing their buying rounds told us there was another boot sale 2 streets away that was heaving. We did a drive-by of that booty sale on the way home and lo-and-behold it was chocca.
Shouldawouldacoulda.
We are doing another car boot next Sunday anyway. Anything that doesn't go then will be charity shopped or tipped. We are either going to the heaving outdoor booty or the indoor one if it rains. We have been reliably informed the indoor site is heaving when its raining.
Some of the highlights we sold:
Xmas tree £3
2 x cushions + covers £3
Helly Hansen jacket £5
Metal fruit bowl 50p
Bikini (never worn with the hygiene strip still on it) 50p
photo frame + ornament £2
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| image from stonehengetours.com |
Books do not sell
Jigsaws do not sell - not even a Downton Abbey one!
Neither type of items got a whiff so they're being charity shopped
Can't believe the weekend is almost over.
Reduce your clutter people, it makes you feel like you've lost half a stone overnight.
x Sunny x
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