Got up at 9am and got busy with phoning Equity as I found that my membership expired on November 30th and I need to be insured for this weekend.
I paid for 3 months membership by phone and card, and got a certificate of cover on the Equity website, which I was able to take a copy of and email to my client in Robin Hoods Bay.
I went to buy bread, and installed a compost bin for Eve up the road. Then I went to St Nicks to pay for that bin, which Keely delivered a few days ago, and bought another to install at David's house. I put it over his fence as he wasn't in.
I got home for lunch and after that, moved a few bits around in the garden, as Gill had asked me to, and then made a batch of gungo pea, carrot and tarragon pate, similar to hummus but all the ingredients (barring some rape oil, bouillon powder and soy sauce) were free, and it was all cooked for free... and took just 5 minutes of hand-held whizzer to convert it into 7 tubs of delicious spread.
It didn't take me long to get myself ready to go away for the weekend.... Gill went to pick up the boys by taxi and I cycled down to the station with all my stuff plus a cool-bag of food. I paid in two cheques in town and got out some cash to keep us going for the weekend. I met Gill and the boys in the ticket place and got our tickets to Scarborough, using our family railcard which halved the cost. The train was crowded but we all got seats, but not together. I chatted with a lovely 80 year old woman called Jean, and the journey went really quickly.
Our bus to Robin Hoods Bay came 10 minutes after we got to Scarborough, and we got a family rover ticket as it was cheaper than 2 adults and 2 children.
We arrived soon after 6pm and walked to The Victoria Hotel, where Rob, the chap who'd booked me, had arranged for us all to stay... I won't get a fee, but do get a family break for 3 nights... in a really quite posh place! The boys had a twin room, and we got a double... but they got the sea view!
Gill had made a quiche earlier, so we had that and then went down into the bay to see if we could find some chips.. a bit of a treat. The chip shop fries in beef dripping, so wasn't suitable for us, but a hotel did some quite expensive chips but in vegetable oil, so I got 4 take away chips and we ate them on the slipway, buffeted by a strong wind.
And back to the hotel. I went to ask to borrow an iron and ironing board, and Gill did my costume so I'm tidy tomorrow...I've a show at 10.30 in the family room of the hotel!
The hotel has free WiFi so I was able to do things on my laptop, which kept me occupied.
Just as we were settling down for the night there was a huge crash which made us both jump, and a picture had fallen off the wall. Very odd!
I paid for 3 months membership by phone and card, and got a certificate of cover on the Equity website, which I was able to take a copy of and email to my client in Robin Hoods Bay.
I went to buy bread, and installed a compost bin for Eve up the road. Then I went to St Nicks to pay for that bin, which Keely delivered a few days ago, and bought another to install at David's house. I put it over his fence as he wasn't in.
I got home for lunch and after that, moved a few bits around in the garden, as Gill had asked me to, and then made a batch of gungo pea, carrot and tarragon pate, similar to hummus but all the ingredients (barring some rape oil, bouillon powder and soy sauce) were free, and it was all cooked for free... and took just 5 minutes of hand-held whizzer to convert it into 7 tubs of delicious spread.
It didn't take me long to get myself ready to go away for the weekend.... Gill went to pick up the boys by taxi and I cycled down to the station with all my stuff plus a cool-bag of food. I paid in two cheques in town and got out some cash to keep us going for the weekend. I met Gill and the boys in the ticket place and got our tickets to Scarborough, using our family railcard which halved the cost. The train was crowded but we all got seats, but not together. I chatted with a lovely 80 year old woman called Jean, and the journey went really quickly.
Our bus to Robin Hoods Bay came 10 minutes after we got to Scarborough, and we got a family rover ticket as it was cheaper than 2 adults and 2 children.
We arrived soon after 6pm and walked to The Victoria Hotel, where Rob, the chap who'd booked me, had arranged for us all to stay... I won't get a fee, but do get a family break for 3 nights... in a really quite posh place! The boys had a twin room, and we got a double... but they got the sea view!
Gill had made a quiche earlier, so we had that and then went down into the bay to see if we could find some chips.. a bit of a treat. The chip shop fries in beef dripping, so wasn't suitable for us, but a hotel did some quite expensive chips but in vegetable oil, so I got 4 take away chips and we ate them on the slipway, buffeted by a strong wind.
And back to the hotel. I went to ask to borrow an iron and ironing board, and Gill did my costume so I'm tidy tomorrow...I've a show at 10.30 in the family room of the hotel!
The hotel has free WiFi so I was able to do things on my laptop, which kept me occupied.
Just as we were settling down for the night there was a huge crash which made us both jump, and a picture had fallen off the wall. Very odd!
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