What are your short term plans?

[BlakeTheBlackBird]

What are your plans for this weekend or the spring?

I'm visiting my brother, SIL and kids tomorrow. I love playing with the kids then home to a nice peaceful house!

A have a few things planned for the spring;
Group trip to a local festival
Visiting the in laws in Suffolk
My and my partners birthdays
A trip to Liverpool with 2 girl friends

What are you all.up to?

This weekend is work/house stuff.
Spring is starting the wind down to semi retirement and a little part time job.

Weekend:
Saturday will be gym, batch cooking, pottering, reading, jigsaw. Then we're having a beige buffet for tea.
Sunday will be much the same, just chilling.

Spring:
We do Easter big in my house so I'm excited for that. I've got most of DP's Easter presents in and wrapped already. I've got my eye on a few more Easter decorations. Easter decorations will go up in a couple of weeks.

Then its May and brilliant things happen in May - its the snooker World Championship final, there are two BHs, its my birthday, its Eurovision. So May will be awesome, as it always is.

For me, Spring is mostly about just enjoying the longer days, the better weather, re-emerging nature and all the positive vibes these things bring.

This weekend I am going to play on my new pc that I bought so I can get back into coding and designing. Seeing mum and grandma on Sunday for Mother’s Day

spring, I’m gonna try get my driving lessons started up again. I turned 30 not long ago and I feel so behind with things like that, gonna get it boxed off.

Thats fun. I dont decorate for Easter, what do you do?
My birthday is May 15th, in my opinion the best month for a birthday. The weather usually is amazing on my birthday

Jealous of your retirement! What's your part time job?
Hope to get to this point one day!

Good luck with the lessons. How much is a driving lesson these days?

I agree - I love my May birthday

For Easter decorations, we have decals in every window, a huge Easter tree in the dining room, and egg-shaped fairy lights on the mantle pieces. Then there are pastel bunnies and chicks and eggs dotted everywhere around the house.

This year, I want a really tall rabbit for the mantle piece. I'm on the look out.

@BlakeTheBlackBird I’m looking at part time cleaning preferably early evening in a local school. 15 hours a week max. I live in a large town so a lot are within easy walking distance. Just want to turn up, do the job and go home and cover my NI contributions. No drama or office politics anymore. (I’m 55, and funding my own retirement).

Good for you! I own my own little cleaning business and can highly recommend it for good working hours, good exercise and no stress

We have a few coach trips booked for weekends and bank holidays including one this weekend, and various outdoorsy places we want to go by car or train as soon as we get a decent Saturday or Sunday weather-wise.

Clearing out the old shed, in preparation for it being replaced by the new shed (would be a lot easier if it would stop raining).

Replace greenhouse. And get a decent support for the grape vines.

Hoping for a spring family meet up in the place my grandmother grew up that's now been turned into a museum. Depends a bit on partner's work plans, and a lot on how much the museum renovations overrun.

Two lots of house guests planned for June.

Possible UK road trip in July.

Wondering about popping over to Europe by train in September. Italy or Austria maybe.