Time slip

I was reading through a few blog posts to discover the date we moved into our latest home and I suddenly realised 2024 has been and gone and I posted nothing!

Furthermore, nearly half of 2025 has also vanished!

Amongst the biggest news is MTM is now working only 3 days a week with full retirement planned for next year. He ended up staying working for his employer despite handing in his notice. There then followed a period of uncertainty when - only a few short months after they begged him to stay - they seemed intent on forcing him to leave! As he had turned down the offer of another job opportunity, he saw a lawyer and filed an official complaint of constructive dismissal based on some very strong evidence of ageism. This led to a truce which has pretty much held since then.

We got another dog, Diesel, he was ten when we got him from Coningsby Rescue

 I saw him on their Facebook page a few weeks after we lost Bongo. No-one had applied for him, he hadn't had a single application.  My heart went out to him. We visited a couple of times and soon he was on his way to live with us. He's a very calm, placid Staffordshire Bull Terrier.

He's thirteen now, lately he has developed arthritis in his back legs which limits how far he can walk, bless him but we still love him to bits. 

I'm still doing my crochet patterns and selling them on Ravelry and Etsy, here's the latest one, a zebra print striped blanket with a scarlet edging.

Earlier this year, we nearly bought a beach hut in Sutton on Sea

But we changed our mind and got a new (to us) caravan, it's about four years old. Here it is at Glossop caravans, the day we put our deposit on

We've got it parked on a seasonal pitch up on the edge of the North Yorkshire moors, with the seaside towns of Whitby and Robin Hood's Bay both only a very short drive away. We could easily walk to both if Diesel was up to trekking that far. 

Wainwright's Coast to Coast route passes within a (long) stone's throw and the famous Cinder Path goes through a nearby village. 

Here are our sunloungers in the generoisly sized awning, it's a very relaxing place to to crochet and drink wine!

Diesel crashed out on his daddy's legs inside the caravan after a busy day.

The caravan faces West so we get glorious sunsets, here's the view from inside looking out

Some ransomes flowering near to the site in May

Here's our favourite bench for eating fish n chips

We're on a very quiet over fifties (no children) site, there are eight other caravans there and around two dozen static holiday homes. We pay a very reasonable annual fee which includes electricity and water, we can visit as often and as long as we like between 1 March and 31 October. So far this year we have managed to go six or seven times for 4-5 nights at a time. Diesel enjoys early morning visits to the beach before it gets too warm for him. 

I have grown my hair very long (for me) and post menopause, it's now really quite wavy! 

We are planning the next phase of our lives, figuring it all out together. Some big changes are on their way. I'd like to record them as I found it so interesting looking back on the things I said when we first moved here over twelve years ago.