My sons favourite place for a little bike ride. Short walks and a breath of fresh air to blow the cow webs away.

With walks along the river bank watching rippling water on windy days or still bright waters on calmer days.

After 40 something years in Sussex. I guess you get a few favourite spots that you like to visit.

I like to find natural beauty and places with serenity and calmness.

So here’s a few of my happy places in Sussex visited for the last time before the big move.

I just love southease Church.

I’ve been here many times.

Never have I met another person in the church mid week.

Therefore I’ve sat alone in peace

The sunlight pouring through stain glass window scattering beams of light across the floor in front of me. Where dust and pollen dance in the streams of light.The air with a smell of wood, from the church pews and high wooden beams.

You can image all the other s in history who have sat here like myself.

So many over time have visited the lovely church.

I really appreciate this place.

My quiet place 😊

This was the house of Virginia woolf and Leonard Woolf.

Virginia Woolf was a writer and her husband a political activist, journalist and editor. While they lived in this house they had visits from the Bloomsbury group, T. S Eliot, EM Forster, Roger Fry and Lutton Strachey.

I love this cute little weatherboard front and slate roofed house.

With beautiful garden apple orchard and vegetable plot.

Plus the lovely walnut tree which my son really likes.

I would happily live here!!!

The walnut tree 😊

The village of Rodmell and another quite pretty church.

Short walks here and quite time to contemplate life in a lovely old church.

I’ve been visiting wakehurst since I was a little girl.

These days I share its beauty with my son.

Autumn is the best time to see its full glory.

Leaves leaves, colour and more amazing colours.

So here’s the pictures.

A few weeks left still to be part of the local home education community, but to also say goodbye to some truly wonderful friends which I’ve made over time. You have(( All )) been good to me !! and will be missed for sure but I do hope we all stay in touch.

Had to post the cake.

Gemma xx.

Fruitcake will be cut on the special occasion of us finding a new abode.

Luckily she kindly fed it with

brandy so will keep for the length of the adventures.

Well no water on board and only bottled water for washing ,drinking and toilet flushing is cope able but not the greatest.

No more properties to view .

Now a warning of storms and floods over wales .

The van has found it a little hard going on the wet slippy hillsides .

A final walk for now ! but we will be back soon for sure.

A last enjoyable walk looking at the Autumn leaves in Wales.

Think its time to return to Sussex and wait for the final days of the house sales stuff to be done.

Then the new life and adventures will really start.

A few days ago we took the same walk.

This evening we walked up to Dryslwyn Castle again.

Each time special as the landscape provides different scenes, depending on the time of day.

If you take time then you will notice. I would happily walk this route daily at different times to show me natures beauty.

(My happy boy taking in the VIEW)

(Roadside evening biscuit making trying out the old oven).

Some time on still no more properties to view. Hubbys not sleeping at night. He goes in fits and starts with this. It becomes a problem when he doesn’t sleep well for a few days and we are all living in a small area, tensions rise. On top of that, some negative events have taken place which affected us this week. We plod on keeping chins up. We decide on giving biscuit making ago with the old oven that evening. Proves hard because the temperature of the oven is really really temperamental. Burning biscuits on the sides but undercooked in the middles. The biscuits are by no way perfect but still enjoyed for sure.

(colourful houses in Lampeter)

Anyone who has an older van -mobile home, will have experienced the ongoing repairs when on the road.

We love you Matilda van but I don’t think we have ever taken a trip without my hubby having to repair some issue along the way.

Today we lost the mud flaps up a very rocky steep hill, some window seals fell off and then the sink tap started leaking on the floor.

leaving us having no water on board.

Using large bottled water for washing, drinking and flushing the toilet with . Until we could get another tap sent out. To a locker as we didn’t have an address.

Hubby found the tap which was needed for our van. However, the company we were going to purchase it from wouldn’t send it to a locker so we couldn’t order it!

That was a bit of a day for sure.