Tuesday Tally Up

Previous Balance: $59.23

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Lela Shrap jar: $6.65

Catherine Shrap jar: $7.00

Ebay Sellings: $9.80

Direct Deposits:$30

New Balance!!!: $112.68

We have reached the hundreds!

Pause for a moment

Today's musing was stolen from the fabulous Lela's facebook album. I have no idea where she got it from, but I love it!

Life is wonderful! Even when it seems to suck. Our plan for our travels is a long term goal, but we don't want to lose sight of the things that make everyday amazing. As we said on Friday, we are having fun imagining and planning, but we are also savouring every moment.

Everyone is on a journey to somewhere. Even if you don't know where somewhere is yet! Don't forget to stop and think about today :)

Now I have said that .... I am sooooo excited about our excursion tomorrow night! I also discovered what I think is the perfect place for our second Mummy Duck outing over the weekend. Lela doesn't know what it is yet though. So I should really tell her before I tell all of you! Happy journeying everyone. Please feel free to share some of your journey with us!

Cath xx

A sneak peak into a conversation

As you can imagine, we are spending a fair bit of time dreaming along with our goal-setting. We are thinking for the time being Fridays might be our day for dreaming about where we might go! This week to kick off our 'Friday Fantasy' posts with we thought we would let you have a sneak peak into our collective thoughts and have a bit of a general brainstorm ... but let you read along.

(Just for clarity, Lela is italics, and responds to Catherine in bold italics. Catherine is non-italics and responds to Lela in bold non-italics)

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Waterstones

Waterstones is the biggest bookshop in Europe. Be still my beating heart. You have no idea how much this excites me! Its flagship store even has a bar! Not that I am much of a drinker, tea is more my thing, but, oh how fun would it be to grab a stack of books and good glass of red! Imagine that!

Books? Did somone say books? I am soooo with Lela on this one! Well except for the not being much of a drinker bit ;)

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The Berwick Street Cloth Shop

This shop claims to be the leading supplier of fabric to theartre, film, fashion and interior design and claims to stock a range of 14000 fabrics. 4 Yards of each please!!

When I walk into this store the first thing I'm going to do (before I fondle all those bolts of fabric) is to breathe in the sweet scent of 14000 different fabrics. MMMMMM.

I don't really sew. But I love materials. I like pretending I could do cool stuff with them! You can hold all the bolts I buy!! And push the trolley! I will work on building up some muscles.

They even offer a made to order service.

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The Fashion and Textile Museum

I love designers. I love fabric. I love finding out what inspires designers and I love the history side of fashion. Fashion itself, in terms of me being fashionable, I'm not really that fussed. Odd hey.

I just like museums :)

This place looks awesome and they offer courses to! I'm sure I could easily work a course in on our travels.

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My turn! Top of my wish list is Pax Lodge. One of our homes and the home of 10 million other girls and women world wide. I am really hoping we will be able to stay here. They even have an Australian room!

I totally forgot Pax Lodge, one of the inspirations for this entire adventure! This is why you keep me around!

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I would also love to do a Jack the Ripper tour. I love history so no it is not all about Johnny Depp. Or some fascination with murder.

Mmmm Johnny Depp, could we just tour him instead. Lol that sounds ruder than it is meant to be. A Jack the Ripper tour would be fascinating. And I totally think we should do this at night. And get dressed in costumes circa 1880's!!!! Dressing up sounds great! But night? You remember I am a wuss right? If I have nightmares you will be forced to wake up and talk to me. You can talk while I read the books we buy at Waterstones, lol.

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And ... drum roll .... I really want to see a show at the West End. I have a feeling picking what we see will be the hardest choice!

"A" show? I think it will have to be more than one!

A show or ten? How does that sound? I think we need to pick one each, then one for each of our kids, you know, for belated congratulation gifts. That would bring us up to 9 shows. I really think this would work for the best.

Ooooo that was fun, we'll see you next friday!

Tuesday Tally Up

It's Tuesday!

Balance so far: $48.35

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Direct Deposits: $10

Shrap Jar: 85c

Interest: 3c!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have earnt free money!!! Thanks Ubank!

Grand Total: $59.23

Woop! We have some stuff up in eBay, so hopefully that should bump up our tally next week (or the week after if they are slow payers).

Monday Musing - Enid

I love to read and like so many people Enid Blyton gave me my first adventures into the wonderful world of books. So much so I remember being forced to consider that there were other authors out there that might be worth my attention! As a parent, I now love it when my children get excited about the same books I loved when I was their age. Many of these, of course, are Enid Blyton books. As these stories are one of the things that make England one of my dream destinations, I thought this was appropriate place to blog about her!



One of my friends suggested I watch the movie "Enid" starring Helen Bonham Carter.Helen Bonham Carter never would have been the person I would have imagined as Enid Blyton. She was brilliant as always. Although I wasn't expecting quite so much of the 'Red Queen' feel to come through.

Be warned! The movie is very much based on Enid Blyton's life and not on her books and is not a cozy ginger-beer drinking, midnight-feasting, adventure story complete with pixies and eccentric French mistress and a mystery to solve. The movie shows a different side to the still popular author and if you think it will alter your view of books don't watch it. However if you are enjoy biographies you will like this movie. It is important to note it is a movie based on true events and of course the writers have exercised poetic license.

While the insight into the private life of Enid Blyton might not have been one I was expecting, I love biographies and enjoyed the movie. And my love of her books has certainly not changed.

Ebay!

Okey doke, I've got the ebay side of things happening!

User name is two_mummy_ducks

But to make it easier for our blog readers (hi two followers!!! You have no idea how thrilled we are to have you!!!!) and people who might stumble upon this blog, I have installed a widget on the side bar linking directly to our listings.

Can I interest you in a electronic head lice comb?? Some vintage Enid Gilchrist mags perhaps.

How fun!

Tally up Tuesday

A bit late, but time for a Tally up Tuesday

Balance: $24.50

Shrap Jar: $3.85

Direct Deposits: $20.00

Total: $48.35

:)