Good morning - A bright start to the day and the forecast is good. We're going to an antiques fair today. I should fit in there quite nicely.

Good morning TW, enjoy your trip to the fair, & let us know if you find anything Special!

Good morning to you. An antiques fair sounds good.

I have family staying with me and today I have been told that I will be using public transport with my grandson, both buses and a tourist road train. This is the sort of sacrifice us grandparents have to make from time to time. Getting in one's car outside the house and driving to wherever is a convenience not appreciated by bus mad small boys.

Actually once when visiting them in the UK I was told that I was going on buses with Alex, we got on a bus and went as far as the depot, then got off, and immediately got back on again for the return trip - the driver must have thought that we were bonkers.

Good morning/afternoon to all.

Yesterday, I finally closed on a new house. The whole process took longer than expected, as the owner died toward the end of negotiations, and ownership had to be established. In the end, I got the house, the heirs got the money. Cheers all round!

Antiquing sounds like fun... I need new/old furniture.

Sue, so wonderful that your grandson enjoys something you can do with him. I have nightmares that I'll have a grandchild that wants me to go skating with them (I have a hard enough time in flats shoes, on solid ground :-p )

Back from the antiques fair having bought a purple-tinted vase made by a well-known Czechoslovakian glass maker (whose name I've forgotten already), a huge tinted glass paperweight, a necklace chain and some buttons ..and Oh yes, some chocolate flapjacks that have been eaten already.

I remember having a young grandchild being quite good Sue. It means there's an excuse to go on a few fairground rides and miniature railways etc. It doesn't look right being on those rides on your own.

Bus and train travel is quite a good way of getting around where we are. We even tend to use public transport more than use the car these days. It saves all the hassle of finding suitable parking spaces. There is also the benefit of the bus pass of course.

It must be a relief to get that house problem over over with postcard2go. Quite a stressful procedure even without that kind of complication.

I'm afraid I have too much tinted glass, TW (green is my preferred color, and I have a great deal of cranberry glass that I've inherited). Now, I need to find a way to carefully pack it up for the move. {{{sigh}}}

The main problem with public transport is timings, and it taking far longer than driving.

We were to go on the little train but my daughter didn't get back in time for us to catch the first one and there would have been about an hour to wait, so plan B, we caught a bus into town, then one along the coast to a castle, I thought that we could have lunch in one of the numerous eating places, but no, he set his heart on eating in town - no! I then suggested a bus to the zoo and to eat in the restaurant there, at the entrance so one didn't have to pay to get in. This was acceptable.

Coming out from there it was another bus back to town, by which time we couldn't get an icecream as we would have missed the bus home. No time for train as they had to go out mid afternoon.

If I ever move house again, I'm going to get a Japanese company to do it.

https://youtu.be/LakMmxg_sQg

I don't think they could cope with moving me and my mess!

flopsy, that's wonderful! I wish I had the money to bring some of the Japanese movers over here. So much time spent packing and unpacking, and the stress of wondering what is broken (because something always gets broken). They do it all so efficiently... and cleanly!

When last I moved (a few years ago), I didn't need any moving company: I had built a new home just next to my old home, so me and my family took care of the move ourselves.

Good morning again. A bright and warm day but with some cloud. I'll be cycling along to the allotment shortly to do some watering in the greenhouse. Also to pick some runner beans, courgettes, tomatoes and red currants. All are ready at this time of year.

It's not my allotment but one I help out on. The owner is away for a while and it's down to me to keep things alive while she's gone. Oh the responsibility of it all!

Those Japanese movers are great. I have often thought I'd make one more move but someone here is dead against it so maybe we'll stay put until I can't manage the place anymore.

When I moved up here I had one of those recruitment deals - my new employer paid for all sorts of things, I got an allowance for things like curtains, and they paid for the actual removal costs, including packing and unpacking. What a joy. I have, for example, a whole cabinet of glass I bought in Murano and so I watched with trepidation as the man started wrapping that lot. He laughed at me, said he got the same reaction everywhere, and how about a cup of tea? Nothing got broken, and I had the time and energy to make several cups of tea. Then he wrapped the tea things and the kettle, storing them separately so we could all have a cuppa when we arrived up here.

But those Japanese movers are on yet another level!

When I was married we had a really beautiful rosewood circular drum table. The base detached for moving, then they dropped the table top on an edge. Even after repair it really wasn't the same, I knew where the repair was.

Moving for me was always catastrophic. I could write a (truly boring) book. Once the removal van arrived. The men loaded everything on and off they went to the other side of London
We left by car a while later, and realised the removal men did not have the key to the new place. When we arrived, full of dread , the stuff was all unpacked and well arranged
They had broken in and were sitting having a cup of tea. Good job they got the right house!

Since unmetered internet mornings for me have become a thing of the past. The times I get up when it's AM per year can be counted on my fingers but I still get everything done I need to. My activities are almost all adjustable to fit, although my long photo trips need to be more carefully planned for the longest days, and I still got one wrong this year when I overslept (mainly as someone phoned me as I was going to bed), and got to the Yorkshire coast just as it was getting dark and struggled to get any usable photos.

I have also begun one of my outstanding ambitions from the 1980s, to finish my master's degree, as working and studying at the time forced me to drop out, and because you can now study online I've returned to criminology after 35 years and am doing one module first and carry on if I do well for the next one. That is part time (they don't do full time) so fits in perfectly with my schedule. So for me mornings are the end of each day rather than the beginning, the only problem there being they are dark.