tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post4198165873589160..comments2023-10-30T00:51:36.361-11:00Comments on Diary of a Desperate Exmoor Woman: Trendy, green and smugExmoorjanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09230395732150659356noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-49222020586303412742008-09-08T20:29:00.000-11:002008-09-08T20:29:00.000-11:00Well thanks you lot!!!!! Always felt a bit robbed ...Well thanks you lot!!!!! Always felt a bit robbed not having hols (holiday accom for 6000 birds a bit thin on the ground) but reading all yur comments and XJ's blog I dont feel so hard done to.<BR/>Def planning the fake bake though- daughter due back after months of travelling......not picking HER up from airport looking like a bleached potatoe............Grousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14511245766699609786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-6166012025588701362008-09-05T08:53:00.000-11:002008-09-05T08:53:00.000-11:00It's September and I'm wondering where you are. I ...It's September and I'm wondering where you are. I ready to hear more from you. I haven't laughed this much in a week.Mother Naturehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14193426407858005058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-1651936857321959382008-09-04T19:33:00.000-11:002008-09-04T19:33:00.000-11:00Is your 'staycation' over yet?Is your 'staycation' over yet?DJ Kirkbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08481107164497582398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-83139528748371242792008-09-04T13:36:00.000-11:002008-09-04T13:36:00.000-11:00so are you still on holiday?or just so bored with ...so are you still on holiday?<BR/>or just so bored with us in the blog world?<BR/>LOL!Sorrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03058557348955007784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-32570102792916570872008-09-01T03:48:00.000-11:002008-09-01T03:48:00.000-11:00Just adore holidays, the lack of responsibility, a...Just adore holidays, the lack of responsibility, although the dismal reminder of dullness thwacks you in the face when you get home. Always pack the wrong things, too. Lovely blog as per and get you with your 38!Millahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15967731998504496807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-32553306399343985642008-08-31T05:50:00.000-11:002008-08-31T05:50:00.000-11:00Never go near a swimsuit if you carry a couple of ...Never go near a swimsuit if you carry a couple of melons before you. The swimsuit merges any delicious curves into a lump of indiscriminate wobbly stuf. I do now opt for a bikini, in spite of the stretch marks and birth battered belly. Its much better to let it all hang out and for people to be able to differentiate the bits that are hanging out. <BR/><BR/>Hols at home can be fun but only if you dont tell anyone you are there. I used to do it regularly when I could not be arsed to be putting little ones to bed at 6pm on a foreign place and officially having no life in a hotel room/cottage/caravan. Hubby and I called them rascal fun's. "the kids were too rascally to take away so we pretended to have fun". Hope you have had a good break - even if was a round of drinks in t'garden.Queen Vixenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06362210631858652847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-88103571061457814572008-08-27T03:58:00.000-11:002008-08-27T03:58:00.000-11:00I, too, would love a stay-at-home-hol. But with c...I, too, would love a stay-at-home-hol. But with cows, sheep and dogs to look after it wouldn't be much of a holiday (though I did do very little during the Olympics). Hope you had a good time and drank plenty of wine with the barbecues.farming-frenchstylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02814733227672889065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-30674821141365729912008-08-24T12:06:00.000-11:002008-08-24T12:06:00.000-11:00Hi Jane - I hope you had a decent time on your sta...Hi Jane - I hope you had a decent time on your staycation. I had to laugh at this whole post - the hairdressers...their cousins must have come over to these shores, because they work at my hairdresser's. Over here they are invariable called Jan, Shelley, Melissa and Amanda.Pondsidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02407539138546412482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-80154955642922174782008-08-22T19:19:00.000-11:002008-08-22T19:19:00.000-11:00Jane if only you lived nearer, there would be no h...Jane if only you lived nearer, there would be no horse envy, Billy is retired but Jack(no asbo) has been getting bored and very fat all summer as I haven't been able to ride due to frozen shoulder, he could have been all yours! Shoulder is on mend now so am going to give it a go this weekend and see what happens!abcdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15690297198756751233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-34905682894885066542008-08-15T07:20:00.000-11:002008-08-15T07:20:00.000-11:00Ooh, Jane - join the club of trendy staycationers!...Ooh, Jane - join the club of trendy staycationers! I now feel quite vindicated re our non-holiday choice, which is rubbed in (not unlike said holiday factor-50 when we DO manage to get away somewhere where it isn't raining) whenever I pop into Malmesbury and inevitably run into someone I know. "Been away yet?" they croon across the aisle, flaunting their Mediterranean/North African/or possibly Cornwallian suntan, as I loiter palely eyeing up the BOGOFs in the washing-powder aisle. Staying at home - it's the new brown, you know.<BR/><BR/>Great blog, by the way. Am now staunchly re-confirmed in my hatred of all things holiday.<BR/><BR/>xxLITTLE BROWN DOGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09752176955139690523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-79261212951248246102008-08-14T09:30:00.000-11:002008-08-14T09:30:00.000-11:00I am totally with you on the beachy,sunny, tanny, ...I am totally with you on the beachy,sunny, tanny, thing. I am quite pale as well, and proud of it!!<BR/>Scots heritage and all that. <BR/><BR/>We only do the beach in the evening. Or in the fall and wintertime! I actually adore a winter, rocky beach.Pamela Terry and Edwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12746603636884819522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-67635986226469132302008-08-14T05:36:00.000-11:002008-08-14T05:36:00.000-11:00Do you realise it's nearly a year since i trawled ...Do you realise it's nearly a year since i trawled to dulverton while you where away.. Time passes far to quickly! And i doubt if this year will let me escape but you never know xxobodran...https://www.blogger.com/profile/11838798193878553386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-64693614732311170972008-08-13T03:16:00.000-11:002008-08-13T03:16:00.000-11:00The only problem is that it's absolutely peeing do...The only problem is that it's absolutely peeing down here so I hope that you get a little sun on your staycation... but not too much so you don't have to worry about shorts etc (I'm with you there.)Chris Stovellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03741359642268813093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-72599754592791396602008-08-13T00:21:00.000-11:002008-08-13T00:21:00.000-11:00We are stay at homes too this summer - but it has ...We are stay at homes too this summer - but it has rained all school holidays (they go back next week), we didn't get to do any of the Bodeny healthy holiday things I imagined. I have spent a fortune on trips to the cinema in an attempt TO GET OUT OF THE HOUSE and I am now fed up. Like you I don't really do summer clothes but it would have been nice to get out of parka and wellies. <BR/>I have booked a week in Barcelona in October.<BR/>J<BR/>xJanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14576982065729973318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-3556928171861860372008-08-12T10:33:00.000-11:002008-08-12T10:33:00.000-11:00We've been having 'staycations' for ages now becau...We've been having 'staycations' for ages now because of lack of funds, and energy. You put it all into words exactly Jane. Never seem to have the time to relax in our own homes, so this is the perfect opportunity. This year I am making scrapbooks of old photos and hobbies, writing letters instead of emails, and putting items we definitely do NOT need on ebay to clear clutter. <BR/><BR/>In the evenings I am cooking real meals for us,and walking to collect stray wood for the fire in the winter which will soon be upon us I fear. <BR/><BR/>I might even be able to do some exterior painting of the poor ld cottage - if the sun would only shine!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11175370285155596455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-35579282615568663862008-08-12T08:07:00.000-11:002008-08-12T08:07:00.000-11:00Hey, no probs we can girly hug in our big knicks, ...Hey, no probs we can girly hug in our big knicks, I may see you in Exmoor or Darmoor SOON ! DEBS XGeorginahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11974050596783678940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-69538947642279374122008-08-11T23:05:00.000-11:002008-08-11T23:05:00.000-11:00I am so with you on summer. I much prefer autumn/...I am so with you on summer. I much prefer autumn/winter simply because I feel more comfortable in jeans and jumpers!! My breasts aren't the size of honeydews but the weight I am putting on is definitely shying away from an M&S wardrobe and moving towards Simply Be.<BR/><BR/>CJ xxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-35167384515071366612008-08-11T07:04:00.000-11:002008-08-11T07:04:00.000-11:00I love the word 'staycation' - I hadn't heard that...I love the word 'staycation' - I hadn't heard that one before. It seems a brilliant idea to me - remember to take the phone off the hook though! xx Mags.Maggie Christiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16047691937064748860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-32321001555031115182008-08-11T03:46:00.000-11:002008-08-11T03:46:00.000-11:00Be interesting to see if you do any work whatsover...Be interesting to see if you do any work whatsover, fancy a meet up in October ? I'm down your way, I'm having a holiday, that's H O L I D A Y. xx Oh forgot, I am on holiday :(Sally Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09299690757779540854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-33657074204297718032008-08-11T02:07:00.000-11:002008-08-11T02:07:00.000-11:00Well, there's so much here that I can share for I ...Well, there's so much here that I can share for I was beginning to wonder if I were the only one who approached a holiday with steadily increasing horror. Fortunately it doesn't last and once it's too late to worry about whether you actually did turn the gas off or lock the shed, I begin to enjoy myself. Not that we can ever get away from the labels for much more than a long weekend. But then there is just so much in every locality that you haven't time to visit if you are working, including our wild and inaccessible wild beaches.Fenniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377814681496294457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-90274393835338087972008-08-10T12:29:00.000-11:002008-08-10T12:29:00.000-11:00i love staying home.a wise choice!i love staying home.<BR/>a wise choice!lauriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18055442432266567561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-63756418938783263952008-08-10T11:10:00.000-11:002008-08-10T11:10:00.000-11:00How great is 'cosy fur'! I've just filled the bat...How great is 'cosy fur'! I've just filled the bath with it, pre-Zambia. Hope you have a brilliant time on your staycation, blogthatmamaxblogthatmamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12584817207287233580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-90627833160908912162008-08-10T08:41:00.000-11:002008-08-10T08:41:00.000-11:00Staycation...officially the best word ever! Give t...Staycation...officially the best word ever! Give that man a prize.DJ Kirkbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08481107164497582398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-11856412640363973442008-08-09T22:54:00.000-11:002008-08-09T22:54:00.000-11:00Hi Jane,Know just what you mean about going on hol...Hi Jane,<BR/><BR/>Know just what you mean about going on holiday and then having to worry about animals/kennels.... HL said recently how about trip to France, WHAT.!! never usually moves from his chair with said remote control. Must admit it take my fancy, only problem do not like leaving Daisy in kennels, she that is used to over-indulge luxury of that plumped up cushion on sofa.<BR/><BR/>Sun - I am of the fairer sex, celtic skin and remember the time moons ago of looking like wrinkly-red beetroot of burning myself from falling asleep in the sun, oh yes, it's the fake tan for me, even though a tad streaky at times.<BR/><BR/>Bring on cooler weather, muted colours of wool and cashmere and dark tights with boots.<BR/><BR/>Put those feet up Jane, just chill, books, day trips out maybe, not forgetting the glass of red stuff, and forget the telephone and write by deadline date, enjoy your holiday at home in that beautiful Devon countryside.<BR/><BR/>xxxCAMILLAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04741990891794651299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-38568552076309602052008-08-09T22:25:00.000-11:002008-08-09T22:25:00.000-11:00Not a bad idea, says she frantically googling flig...Not a bad idea, says she frantically googling flights to Paris or B&Bs in Edinburgh, seeing if the kennels will do a frequent-flyer type deal. I have itchy feet, I'm sick of gardengardengarden and mudmudmud and inlawsinlawsinlaws.No chance of you nipping up to wales on 28th is there?Kittyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05378174162151683519noreply@blogger.com