Project House – The Early Days

by Mr C -

Following on from the last update, here’s where we are in project house - the early days:Just had a quote for replacement windows… We had budgeted a significant amount - a five-figure sum for new windows to be precise. However, when your first quote comes in at nearly 70% over budget it sort of takes your breath away and makes you sweat a little. This

Project House

by Mr C -

It’s all gone quiet over here! Where have Mr and Mrs C been all this time? We've been thinking ' Project House '.After our whirlwind world tour last year we hit the ground not so much running, but with a thud! Getting back into a routine after a year away takes some doing, believe me.However, here we are, fully rejuvenated, horizons broadened and ready for

Don’t Underestimate Your Dad

Gifts

by Mr C -

Birthday presents, Christmas gifts, Father's Day gifts... They're all a bit of a challenge nowadays. Men are SO difficult to buy for. This is where Experience Gifts can come into their own.When you’re a Dad, you’re a Dad. Simple as that! You grow a little bit older, you lose a bit of hair, your midriff changes shape a little, but to your kids you’re still

A Devon and Cornwall Holiday

Travel, Holidays and Hotels

by Mr C -

It's a funny old place to get to, Cornwall. We commented this morning when getting from Polperro to Mawnan Smith how easy it is to take a road that you think is right and then end up getting dead-ended on some promontory somewhere with only a chain ferry that runs twice a day. That's part of the attraction of a Devon and Cornwall holiday.Whichever way

Why I Hate Shopping!

by Mr C -

I've always hated shopping. I don't think I'm alone amongst men either. The very thought of going into town with the sole objective of 'shopping’ brings me out in a cold sweat. No, for me there has to be a sole purpose, a project, a single product to buy, or in an extreme case a few products. Nowadays it's even less necessary to venture onto

Hong Kong

by Mr C -

Hong Kong was to be our final fling - the last stop on our round-the-world jaunt, so as we boarded our plane in Singapore we were both excited, but at the same time a little melancholy at it being our last port of call.After a slightly bumpy landing at Hong Kong airport we hopped on to the Airport Express train for the quick run into

Singapore

by Mr C -

There are a couple of definites in Singapore. Heat and humidity is one and high-end shopping as far as the eye can see is the other. These were exactly the same when I first visited Singapore way back in the late 70s, but back then there was also still an enormous amount of character. Lots of the old buildings were still standing and it was

Melbourne and St Kilda

by Mr C -

Our whistle-stop tour of the Southern Hemisphere took us to the Melbourne area next. Melbourne, Australia's second city has been voted 'The Best City in the World’ to live recently and from a cakes point of view at least, we get it!Before we settled down to a week of chilling, we hired a car for a couple of days and took ourselves off onto the

New Zealand – North Island

by Mr C -

How were we to top the last few days? What was North Island going to offer? Could it possibly get any better? South Island gave us some of the most impressive, most beautiful and most ‘awesome’ scenery we’ve ever seen. Auckland airport greeted us with grey skies and a cold southerly wind and after a complete fiasco with our car rental booking we were out

Route 66 – Over the Hump

by Mr C -

Gallup was an unremarkable pivotal point in our Route 66 journey. Our trip switched from a westerly route to a northerly diversion off route. It had been our intention all along to head up into Utah to see the landscapes that had featured on so many books, films, album covers, postcards etc..It's funny how different it becomes leaving one of the main trunk roads and