My Favourite Drive : Snake Pass

I don't drive ( I can't drive ) and anyway I have staff a husband for that ! but the trouble is as the driver you don't always get to see the complete beauty around you as you are concentrating on the road ahead.

One of my most favourite drives is right here in Derbyshire and it is Snake Pass and it is apply named  ,Snake Pass is a hill pass in the Derbyshire section of the Peak District, crossing the Pennines between Glossop and the Ladybower Reservoir at Ashopton. When You drive through it you feel as if you are part of a Model Village as the scale of the hills are breathtaking , you really are driving through the clouds.


We drive all over the place very often for Rugby or when I go I want to go somewhere as I get an idea in my head and we must go there now , having good car insurance is a must . One place that you can get car insurance from is Chill Insurance when you are looking through the mountain of places to get car insurance from.


This is a collaborative post

Little Positive Changes You Could Make

It can jolly cary how I feel I admit with anxiety and depression thrown into the mix , I might not put my words as eloquently as some but I do it my own way and that is good enough for me . And that's one of the things is admitting you are good enough , we are all different it would be jolly boring if we were all the same. I mean honestly can you imagine 2 of me , there's enough procrastination in the world and not enough tea drinking, I don't count tea drinking as procrastination I count it as me time .


Get yourself a note book 

I got a couple of these at Christmas thanks to a blogger secret Santa , note books can be fun in them list perhaps the jobs that need doing it might not all be achievable but it's a start. Factor in a treat , rest for yourself for me you guessed it would be drinking tea ,  It is not a case of timetabling your day it is to help you feel a sense of achievement and yes some of the things you write down could take weeks of months to achieve , so this is why you limit what you write down.


I have a real problem applying myself and I easily get distracted and wander off to do something else and keeping a list is hopefully going to keep me on task.



Give Yourself Something to Look Forward To 

Giving yourself something to look forward need not be a budget buster , it could cost as little as 10 p for example : I brought myself a Flump the other day and for me it is a little bit of joy and a bargain at only 10 p , though long gone are the days when I get a load of Strawberry Bon Bons for 2 p .Book a holiday for instance I'm going to Rome and the planning alone is mind boggling but enjoyable , it doesn't have to be stressful as the further in advance you do it the better,

Regret nothing or try not to as it is a time stealer . Your time your happiness .

Find Like Minded People 

It can be hard to make change in your own ~ 

Many hands make light work 

Doing stuff on your own is very much like going into the kitchen to get a sandwich and just coming out with a tin of beans , without help I'd default to always coming out with a tin of beans .

Take my road for example , people you'd think are busier nowadays but when a neighbour needed help with an excercise bike as her husband can't get out due to an illness , it was my husband and son that went across to help. It was the neighbourly thing to do , people just do things with no expectation it's a instinctive kindness . 

I try and protect myself from big big meanies , I have a thing well a personality trait  which means I can't tell if someone is joking or just being a big big meanie , I'll be honest if they're being mean it can wound me for days . I find myself mulling over the situation which is not good for me as it's a mood alterer so when I experience something of late , I sought friendly advice from people I know and trust . Now of course I'm still coming to come across irksome people but I'm going to imagine them as a big fluffy ducky wearing a top hat.

Meal Planning 

Meal planning I hear you cry how the Dickens is that going to help me possibly ? It's the routine factor currently I'm working my way through one cookbook then I'll move onto another. I'm having a whale of a time cooking and experimenting .....

 

But I'm not like So And So

I'm pretty much a free spirit but then I think I'm not like so and so who has the word at that feet and everything they post , everything they do everywhere they go it's like they're a mini celebrity , and I think I just mentioned that yonks ago. They've been to the same places I've been perhaps but them going is so much cooler and I think I'm not like so and so.

I feel perhaps of late I've been a right misery duck.

But to Get Ahead you get a hat ...

 

Or a new haircut at least , and that's all I've done today that and made some hoisin duck and noodles , I'm jolly well trying to do more excercise and I've done that today . Some days I feel too tired to excercise but pacing myself allow me I hope more energy and then I'll get to excercise , I can't pound the pavements as I'll have to accommodate anything I've got with a proper excercise regime with advice from the hospital . And come February I hope I'll get a diagnosis , see I always knew I had special blood , they testing for Lupus , far from thinking my life is on hold till I go find out I'm adjusting my living style in preparation so less chocolate , less wine ( I don't over do ) more brown bread . Don't tell the doctor but I had some white bread the other day ooooh I'm a rebel without a Jam sandwich and I kept the crusts on.

Blogging is therapy I think we'll it is to be anyhow .

I wouldn't have the friends I have without social media .

 

and though I'm an introvert I like it .

So you see I'm not like so and so 

I'm me

How Might You Spend £50 At Amazon ?

Now I really really struggle to spend money on myself I really do unless it a cup of tea and perhaps some cake , then maybe if I have a look and browse in a charity shop then maybe I might spend something on myself . This is something of such value that the family will find useful and derive joy from ! As they say a bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush , now treating yourself can be hard , the last time I had treated myself previous was when I went to York for the day and went to Bettys tea rooms , I pushed the boat out and enjoyed a Kir Cocktail. This I hasten to say was in October( Bettys tearooms ) so you can see it is a jolly long time since I treated myself!

Now when I was lucky enough to win £50 of Amazon thanks to ChelseaMamma blog and Kinfo the winning email told me I must spend the money on myself , this is where I was really racking my brains as to what I could buy myself.

Now as I child I love listening to War of the Worlds on vinyl , after all I am I am a child of the 70's and this was pure joy especially when it was dark , I used to put the chunky headphones on and then scare myself witless.

Another flashback to the 1970's comes in the shape of Doctor Who , and for me my most beloved Doctor Who my hero my saviour of the Cosmos was Tom Baker . Back in the day the episodes were longer and one of my most favourite epsidosdes was over 2 hours split into several programs. The Doctor Who program in question is

Doctor Who - The Talons of Weng-Chiang

The cat needed a treat as well so I ordered a mouse come octopus toy but when it arrived the cat was sacred witless of it , so I had to return it and order the cat a play mouse instead .

What would you order from Amazon for £50 ?

Malteser Cheesecake

When you need a sweet fix but you don't want to overload on calories .

I suppose you do a deconstructed cheesecake if you wish it's the posh thing to do but I rather mostly that things are together .

Ingredients 

Pinch of Ginger

4 Digestives biscuits (crushed)

150 g of low fat cheese

150 g of  low fat creme fraiche 

2 tablespoons of Icing sugar

A bag of Malteser 2 normal sized bags should do it 

Zest and juice of an orange , though you can use Lime as well .

Method 

Put the digestive biscuits in a bag and bash into a crumb ( it's a great stress reliever ) 

Mix in with the pinch of Ginger .

Divide the mixture between 4 glass ramekins .

In another bag place the Malteser and press each one by hand or bash . In crushing each one I shouted out a worry to crush .

In a mix mix the cream cheese or quark till smooth ten add in the orange or lime juice aling with the zest . Add in the icing sugar and crem fraiche mix throughly .If you wish for a more tart taste then lessen the amount of icing sugar or leave out.

Divide the mixture between the ramekins and then top with the crushed Malteser .

My son suggested that you couid mix the cream cheese mixture with the crushed Maltesers.

This recipe allows for any change of topping .