Holidays booked!

Taking our caravan to the Costa Del Whitby followed by Barnard Castle - £16 per night for the first site and £18 a night for the second (paying a bit extra as there are laundry facilities at the second one!)

Top end of our nightly budget but have found the last couple of years now that everyone and their mother are going camping prices have shot up - our top whack used to be £15 and I would expect an all-singing-all-dancing site for that! alas, no more......

Have made up a menu for the holiday (leaving a few blanks for barbecues, odd meal out) and will pack the slow cooker.

Might manage a few long weekends in the summer holidays away in the tent but they will have to be very basic and cheap sites!

If its not one thing.....

Been hit with allsorts - £90 to sort out the computers, £304 for brakes/tyres for the car, need a new battery for the caravan (£90), new steps as ours are so rusty they are dangerous (around the £20 mark), oh needs new walking shoes as his are leaking (up to £30 for walking shoes), both the hairdryer and straighteners blew up within a couple of days of each other, - all this with only a few weeks until our holiday.....aaaarrghh!

Been very quiet.....

Busy doing my first big essay for my Open Uni course - its really hard when you have been out of education for sooooo long to try and get your head round it!

And my old computer finally died - had a panic attack when the computer shop phoned up and told me as I have all my family tree stuff on it - luckily they retrieved it.

So we are not getting another desktop computer at the moment - I have my laptop which we are using for wireless connection and we are using my daughters old laptop as the one plugged into the internet.

Have booked 6 days in our caravan at Whitby followed by 5 days at Barnard Castle for our summer holidays - will see how many wee trips in the tent we can also sneake in during the summer hols!!!!!!

BHS jewellry bargains

Had a treat today and went to see Pirates of the Caribbean in 3d - really long film but enjoyed it - used my dds disabled cinema card so that was one free and went to the 4pm showing as it was a lot cheaper.

On the way out we went through BHS and I noticed they had a jewellry sale - bought an earring and necklace set reduced to £2 from £15, matching bracelet - again reduced from £15 to £2, a ring reduced from £5 to £1 and another set with earrings, necklace and bracelet reduced from £15 to £2! I'm now all jewellryed out!!! £50 worth for £7 - not too shabby.

14 hours of solid rain

yet we still managed to enjoy ourselves! Sat was a wash out - but Friday and Sunday had lovely sunny spells....lovely bluebells woods and heres a picture of the tent in action with my 2 dds..

Going away camping....

Going away in our new tent for a few days so no more blogging for a bit - at least we will be eating plenty of sandwiches!!! Weather forcast for Stirling area isnt great but we are prepared - wellies, raincoats,hot water bottles, sun tan lotion and midge cream - what else can be thrown at us!

10 p bread in Asda

Filled my trolley! All ciabattas, paninis, olive bread, walnut bread and fancy rolls - all reduced down to 10p each! Added it up and totalled £24.16 for the grand total of £3!!!!! Well chuffed - thank heavens for a huge freezer!