Extreme Housesitting - when your clients are getting back in five hours time and your car is still at the mechanics after 2 weeks of engine work but they’ve said it’ll be ready some time today though they’re not sure when 😬 Living on the edge yeah 🙃😉😻🙏⭐️🦄✨

I had another Guardian Angel Experience today

Something special happened to me this morning. I’d spent an enjoyable hour missioning around York and was walking to the bus stop, laden down with my wares; boxes and birdseed. The bus was already there. I love it when that happens. I got on and asked for a ticket. I reached for my purse to get my card (you can pay with contactless now…yay) and went to pay. The bus driver said I couldn’t pay like that - he’d already put the ticket through as ‘cash’. There was no other way. I’d have to get off the bus, walk to a cash point, and come back. I had five minutes. He didn’t even give me a chance to get my card out. I was too flummoxed to be annoyed.

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I’ve never had French toast, berry compote and mascapone cream before. I’ve concluded it’s definitely going to be a recurring theme through my life. Oh yes 👍

27 degrees here in the UK and everyone’s feeling it. I’m loving the hotness and embracing the sweat. I adore this delightful garden we’ve been staying in and appreciate the two days of balmy weather we get a year. Hooray! 🌞🙏🌞🥳🌞❤️🌞

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You know you’re getting healthy when a plate of salad excites you and a plate of pancakes doesn’t.

Ooooo what have we got here? Mmmmm my favourite yum smell. Ok. Feeling a bit frisky now. Zoomies are upon me. Here I go…..

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The Time of Leather is Upon Us

I’m rather excited. Because after a long time of talking about, looking at, trying on, deciding on, ordering, not receiving and sending back two inferior laptop bags from an online store, today we purchased altogether new and improved bags, from an uber cool leather shop and we’re totally loving them. @macgenie had a part to play in the purchases (thanks honey!) when she posted a gorgeous picture of her lovely leather travel bags at the airport. It got us thinking about leather - we’d never thought about it before. We’d also started seeing classically weathered leather bags around the city. They looked perfect. Then it dawned on us. It was time for leather. It was time for sophistication. It was time for class. It was time to buy two leather bags (in the sale yay) and honour and cherish them for years to come (love you thank you cows). The smell is alluring. The touch so soft. These little babies look the bomb. Now we just need leather jackets to go with them. 😉

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What do you do in York on a hot summer’s day when you realise you’ve only got a few days left in your favourite city and are about to head off into the countryside again? Pick out your future, uber cool winter coats of course. They felt so good and are made by a company who care.

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Gatehouse Coffee, Walmgate Bar (coffee shop #8)

I love this place. For one thing it’s so photogenic. The colours are soft, warm and inviting. It’s in one of the gates that make up the medieval wall surrounding York’s centre so it feels extra cool with the added history and thick stone walls. The staff have to be fit here; there are three levels including a roof terrace. They’ve got to have strong, coordinated legs to whizz (calmly) up and down the wooden stairs. I’m comfortable here on my snuggly couch. I feel peaceful and soft. Leather and wood abound. It’s primal. Like an inn. Done 21st century style.

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Been embracing bus culture since our car is still in hospital (and the next house-sit looms). I like the bus when it’s quiet. It gets ever so hot with many people on board and no-one opens the windows which makes no sense to me (no air con here). I use Uber when feeling wealthy.

Day 28 - We are all sculptors. Sculpting our own bodies and our own futures. We chisel away, exploring and discovering new things our bodies can do. If we treat our body kindly it feels wonderful. If we challenge it, it repays us by getting stronger and happier. Love your body.