JustPickOneUK

Back in February 2024 I decided to I decided to buy a National Trust annual pass for the family. We were visiting Bath earlier in the year and we had some ideas for the summer holidays to travel around the UK check out my blog series about our adventures called 3 peaks in 3 weeks. So with this adventuring I thought it would be a good idea to have the option of some plans for days out, culture, beauty and generally less thinking would be involved when we travel.   So what is the National Trust? For anyone outside the UK or does not know, the National Trust is an charitable organisation which looks after and manages over 500 properties, has properties all over the England and Wales of varying different styles. Houses, gardens, coastal areas, and sites of global historical interest. These are all very important sites and without organisations like the National Trust, a lot of them would have been lost to time or disrepair. What sort of place does the National Trust offer? Each locati...

 Sometimes I feel like I am not achieving anything and it gets me down. I feel anxieties over not being enough or not achieving enough. But in those moments I have to remember where I have come from.  During lockdown in 2020, I made the decision to learn how to sew. I didn't know how to sew apart from vague memories from senior school and the hard lesson in looking after pins when my teacher refused to let us out for break because we had misplaced one!  I felt like learning the skill would come in handy and so I bought a sewing machine for £50 from a local lady and set to work. Well I did a deep dive into YouTube to find simple things that I could make with little knowledge or skill. It was difficult at first because just learning your way round a sewing machine can prove tricky, but I got the hang of it and ended up going from making a tiny pin cushion pillow and getting to making a 2 legged velvet dinosaur for my son.  Each thing I made turned into the next best th...