Hello Dear Reader,
Here I am in my ‘holiday cottage’ in Cornwall, on my staycation! Ha! I always live in a holiday cottage in Cornwall so instead of feeling bad about the cold and rainy weather, I can feel great that I’m here on my holiday and I’m going to make the most of it.
I am to take part in craft workshops, fine dining, moorland and cliff side walks, out door exercise, relaxing and lazy lie ins in the most laid back part of the UK. I will therefore be sewing and quilting, bag making, cooking, getting out and about for walks and catching up with some great friends.
What better way to start my day than to cook up a full English for Dearly Beloved and myself. I was sent a new ceramic coated frying pan from Delimano who have really good quality cookware from Italy. As an avid cook, I wasn’t going to say no. It’s a light weight pan so I wouldn’t advise you to get it smoking hot for steaks but it’s going to be a stalwart for weekend breakfast here at Thrift Cottage. However, as some one with arthritic hands that just can’t lift heavy cookware, this is a great alternative. It also really easy to clean and I just wiped it over with a damp cloth and it was ready to put away.
Come back and see me over the next week and I will be blogging away and sharing my week with you. Over to you, who is home with children this week or looking after grand children? What are you getting up to this week? It’s a British bank holiday on Monday, the schools are on holiday for the week and families make the most of this time to get out and about and entertain themselves locally. So, what will you be up to this week?
See you later, oh yes, I will be keeping you up to date.
Love Froogs xxxx
Disclaimer - Delimano sent me the pan to review and the opinions are my own.
We are always on staycation here with people coming to stay on the campsite we have to be at home to look after them and with 140 chickens to look after it's far too complicated to get away. Our holiday treat is a chinese takeaway and home made scones ( not both at once obviously!)
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A very happy staycation to you, Frugal Queen ! 'Twill be my turn soon and I can't wait. I can almost smell that bacon on your plate !
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Looks like a good pan 🙂
Every week feels like a staycation to us now. Living on a lush green hill with the start of Snowdonia virtually on our doorstep and the seaside just a few minutes away we really are spoilt.
Doggy walks along the prom are now the norm and we really do appreciate it.
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Have fun! I have exams so no vacation or staycation for me sadly!
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Great outlook Froogs, so yes, I am on staycation too here in my Yorkshire home next week! No holidays abroad for 9 years, have been to Cornwall twice but other than that we use my Mum's caravan at the seaside (for free) plus odd nights here and there. I have no idea how people manage to go abroad every year. My 12 year old is at Scout camp in 2 weeks so we count that as a holiday too.
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Hubby and I use to go camping in Derbyshire, Most weekend when the children werer young but know we live there. Every week day is a holiday, avoid sat/sun cos we leave the countryside for the visitors.
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It is lovely! My maternal grandma was from Capel Curig and I spent lots of time there throughout my life until about eight years ago. Sadly my mum got rid of her caravan after having had one there for years and years and all the relatives I had there had moved away or passed on so I didn't go at all for about six years. Last year I surprised my mum with a few days for just the two of us in Llandudno and later in the year did the same for my big sis. We had a lovely time reliving happy memories and I am bringing mum back in June to celebrate her birthday! You are very lucky but you sound like you already know that!
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Staycation here too! Before we moved here, we would have paid a lot of money to have a holiday somewhere like this. Yesterday was spent walking and cooking sausages on the camping stove among the hills and waterfalls and coming face to face with a large wild red deer who let us stroke her - what an experience. Today we are doing DIY and gardening (boring but essential). The idea had been to have a couple of days away camping but there have been too may bills to pay recently so we will stay at home and have a couple of days out with a picnic. Enjoy your break x
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I like the idea of living where people like to take their holidays.
Earlier this week, one of our television stations broadcast Tony Robinson's Cornwall Walk programme. SO was very taken with the coastal walk and looks forward to one day seeing your neck of the woods for himself. 🙂
Your staycation sounds idyllic. Enjoy.
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Have a wonderful Holiday!….I love the term “holiday”. In the USA we say vacation but “Holiday” is so much better and I actually have a coworker starting to say “holiday” :o) This weekend is a 3 day holiday as it is Memorial Day on Monday and the government buildings and schools are closed. My summer break holiday does not start until June 6 - July 11. This weekend holiday is low key as working the last days of school is so hectic. I made a wonderful, yogurt, strawberry, banana and oats parfait with my coffee on the deck. A beautiful sunny and warm day. I am heading out to a strawberry festival about 10 minutes away. Parking and admission is free and I love walking around seeing friends and the displays. The music lineup sounds good and I have a blanket in my backpack to lay out in the sun and enjoy. The wonderful aroma of foods will be a temptation. I need to be sure I pack a snack.
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We love our house here in the North Texas Cross Timbers. I'd rather be right here than anywhere else-watching birds, walking through our little woods and spending time with the Mr.!
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We're making the most of an offer in our local Dover paper on Tuesday and going across to the Channel to Calais on the ferry for just £3 each as foot passengers. Tomorrow afternoon we're using our English Heritage membership to go to a WW2 event at Dover Castle for just £1 each. And on another day we're driving up to Tenterden as I've never been and I've heard there's a lovely craft and fabric shop and cake shop and cafe there…now that trip might cost a bit more if I'm tempted by fabric or cakes and coffee.
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I'm lucky to work term time like you froogs so at home with kiddies this week…bliss_! Planning on a few lie ins and lazy days in between a visit to a zoo park(using tesco club card vouchers) and maybe a trip out to the cinema early one morning, when its only about £1.50 for kids tickets. Itl be nice to just be at home with them, walk the dog and do some nature walks and let them stay up late. If the weather is dry we will light the chimnea in the garden and have marshmellows on sticks. They are happy with these things planned and don't expect anything else. The children next to us are going abroad this week…sure they will have a nice time but if their mother moans once more she is skint I shall laugh…nothing wrong with a staycation I say, at least I can sleep at night knowing I'm living within my means.
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It's a staycation for us as well. I've taken the week off work as it's half term. We're planning lazy days, some art & craft, a bit of DIY , catching up with friends. I've picked up couple of box sets the local exchange shop for us to watch. A little treat for the holiday and cheaper than buying new or a trip to the cinema.
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We are staying home too, we have a voucher for a local pub chain & we'll go into town using out free bus passes.
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I'm staying home too! A nice long weekend to enjoy our home and backyard garden. We will do some grilling, chilling and loving. I need an extra day to recover from watching my new granddaughter:)
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We have too many responsibilities to go away as well. It's a military operation to arrange a day trip!
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I also like staying at home. Pottering around my garden, going on free cycle rides around the area and visiting my local seafront are all things that make days off work feel like a holiday at any day.
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I love staycations, been having them since my divorce 3.5 years ago. I have a lovely river at the back of my home to go on walks and not far from a coffee shop if I want to treat myself. My colleagues think I'm weird as I've not been away for nearly 6 years but at least my bank balance is healthy at the moment and with NHS downgrading I need to be careful. The other advantage of staycations - no queues at airports, train stations or on the roads! ahhhhh the relaxation of it all 🙂
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I love the concept of a staycation too. Some time ago we didn't go away for a weekend but decided to sleep at home and take day visits to places we normally wouldn't go and include a nice lunch or coffee, then went past our shop and bought a steak for a fraction of the price of dinner out. It was so special.
We've also done a house swap by looking after grandchildren at their own house and giving the parents our house with food in fridge for nice breakfast and dinner and their room done up like a motel….they loved it.
So in all, the things around us that we can at times take for granted need to be seen with fresh eyes….gardening is creating, tidying is creating pleasant surroundings, retirement pension approaching an adventure with a bit of the unknown thrown in, visiting the little grandchildren are rays of sun.
Have great holidays all. Our Holiday weekend is in two weeks time here in Sydney Australia
Greetings from http://www.Alexa-asimplelife.com
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In the US, this is a long weekend with the Memorial Day holiday Monday. I'm single with no kids, but I'm just staying home this weekend. Doing some decluttering and cleaning around my flat. I've been working a lot of hours recently and I'd let things go at home.
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