What have we been up too?

Since we have been back so much has happened. It has been slightly crazy really! In the first 2 weeks we had bought a house and a car! 2 major purchase in 2 weeks was pretty good going we thought.
We have bought a ‘next stage in our married life car’ car, it is a 5 door child friendly car with vivid patterned seats ready for those spillage’s that occur when transporting mini tinkers. Izzie, our lovely niece, has already successfully traveled in it, her twiglet finger prints not showing up on the vibrant patterned chairs! Woo woo woo!

Our house is best described as a project. The house has some beautiful carpet and décor, a really delicious bathroom, a gorgeous kitchen, really beautiful fake wooden clad chimney breast, fantastic polystyrene ceiling tiles on all ceilings, a useful asbestos shed, varying styles and material of windows, 1960’s electric and an interesting arrangement of gas fired heaters. (Some of the positives here may have to be taken with a pinch of salt as we may be being slightly sarcastic!)
However there are several very exciting feature that our house has, stairs being one, 3 bedrooms and room for a dining room table.
No more clambering over the sofa to sit comfortably on a deckchair at the table when you come to the Selby’s house for dinner!
The most exciting thing of all though, is that it has potential to be a lovely family home for the Selbsters. And as it says on Nat’s CV her favourite phrase is ‘I’m going to set you a challenge’ and indeed with this house she has!
We have been thinking that it would be nice to document our struggles and triumphs on our journey of turning our home from just plain old okay to absolutely lovely, and thought perhaps we would utilise this ‘ere blog! So watch this spot…

Some thoughts as we arrived back
As we flew over the beautiful southern coast of our lovely country we cheered to think that we were back. As we landed we discussed what we would likely to experience within a short time of arrival, and Jonny and I were right about many things!
A cadbury’s vending machine, mints offered to us in the car, marmite sandwiches (actually waiting prearranged for us at the airport ,we were so in need of our marmite fix) green fields, safe driving, British pubs (Phew at last!), and flushing toilets. Woo woo woo!

We thoroughly enjoyed our traveling experience. It has brought Jon and I so much closer. We have experienced many new challenges, realised our own, and each others, strengths and weakness and learnt so much about the people and places we share this World with.
There were many times when I wished I was home, but I am thoroughly grateful for the time we had to do this and know that it has changed who I am.
One thing we have both realised during our time away, is that although the UK has many faults, there are some things we do not wish to change. We do live in a trully beautiful country!

We want to continue to travel and explore the World.
Our next country is the UK!

We have made our own list of things we would like to do in England, deciding to go ‘The Lonely Planet’ free way. We were embarassed when we spoke to some people during our time away at how little we really knew our own country.
So here is just some of our list, that we intend to so that we can say we have done England:
1)Stone Henge,
2)The pudding club. A pub here in the Cotswalds that allows you to sample some of the traditional English pud’s and vote on your favourites. Bring it on!
3)A comedy club
4)Wimbledon
5)Hot air balloon ride with champagne breakfast
6)A Premier football game
7)An England Rugby match
8) The magical mystery tour in Liverpool
9)Cambridge punting down the river
10) Blackpool