Sarah

How can one person have acquired so much stuff? With my move planned for next weekend I have started to sort and have sorted six bin bags of stuff into wheely bins already without seeming to have any impact. Except to have filled lots of wheely bins, none of which are mine. I have become a wheely bin in the dead of night filler.

I have got a flatmate. Nothing much to say really except that she is a tap dancer so I am glad I bagged the room with the floor boards and gave her the carpeted one.

Did I mention my room is ensuite? Did I mention how lovely the garden is? Did I mention there are new carpets and original fireplaces throughout? Did I mention the high ceilings and the very cool laundry drying rack on a pulley in the kitchen? Is it wrong to plan christmas decorations for my new flat in July?

Fingers crossed that the agency get their act together so I can get in at the weekend, though I think it will be a miracle if it happens.

Double room in a gorgeous and spacious flat in Bedminster. On 2 levels the flat has new carpets and a lovely new bathroom. There is a terrace which gets the evening sun and being a corner flat it is really light with windows everywhere. The room is unfurnished. I have found the flat but need someone to move in with me. I am looking for an easygoing professional to sign the lease on 5th August. No smoking inside but outside is fine. Photos on request. It is £297.50 per month + bills on top. Refs & deposit required. Comment if you are interested.

Pancakes with sugar and lemon (made with handy egg and powdered milk)

Eggs, ham and holiday cheese

Boiled eggs eaten with a shared tea spoon

Pasta with pepper relish

Paella

Sausage and bean casserole (my favourite)

Steak, pots and salad

Ferry picnic: Tine cream cheese, Kaptaein crackers and smoked salmon

Hey I am in Norway. look

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We are camping and cycling but today is a day off cyling so we are just hanging out. We were supposed to be going on a trip to a big rock which was 4 hours walk but we thought we were getting a bit too keen with all this physical activity so we stayed in bed reading. It was also raining all night and a bit cloudy. It has been super hot the whole time which allowed us to enjoy white sandy beaches on the North sea. We even went swimming at one point but we had to leave because Tom lost all feeling in his legs. It was the sort of temperature you imagine the North sea to be.

The ferry over was great and we took advantage of the breakfast buffet. Then a train to our first place to stay near Egersund. Campsites in Norway have kitchens and our first campsite had a really really nice kitchen. ooh and it had a massive communal tipi for everyone to use but becuase Norway is generally really empty we were the only ones using it. We had a nice dinner in the tipi.

So now we are in Stavenger and we went the the Norwegian Petroleum museum and the Canning factory which is all about the sardine canning trade in norway. The petroleum museum is all about oil rigs and the oil trade in Norway. They were both very interesting and very interactive. I went down an escape shute and pretended to escape from an oil rig and I packed rubber sardines into tins.

Now we are going to go back to the campsite and cook jambalaya. You just wait till you see what we have been cooking. Donæt worry i have taken pictures of every meal. This mornign we had pancakes and maple syrup.

Oh and sorry no one will be getting postcards as they are 1 pound each and thatæs just too much to pay for a postcard.