Location Location

Yesterdays outing made me realise what a really good place this is in which to live for access to some lovely places.

We decided to go to Salisbury for some shopping, from here it only takes 30 mins. Salisbury is reached via Stockbridge on the A30. Stockbridge itself is charming, comprising a wide street containing many individual one off shops, good restaurants, coffee shops, galleries, and hotel all with unrestricted on street parking.

From Stockbridge you then travel through really lovely countryside to Salisbury. The parking in Salisbury just off the ring road is excellent always plenty of spaces, and the shops again are good. The only problem yesterday was that we had decided to treat ourselves to a coffee and were perplexed to find that our favourite tearoom, The Polly no longer existed in Salisbury having sold out to a very nice looking restaurant. I do hope The Polly in Marlborough, another favourite shopping place, is still open, they produce the best cream teas ever !!

Shopping completed we made our way back to the car picking up a few bargains on the way - a bunch of beautiful pink roses  for £1 and a visit to Robert Dyas and The Works, also produced goodies.

  The whole point is that we have good access to lovely market towns , interesting cities, coast, New forest, and other good country side.

Lovely location.

Exciting Life

  What constitutes an exciting life? One mans excitement is another's nightmare!

I suppose excitement is induced by anything that takes one out of the usual into a realm of the different or unknown.

I believe excitement is not only a happy euphoric state it is also one of anxiety, fear, trepidation etc. Therefore the world is constantly full of excitement for all of us. Bring on the mundane say I.

One needs to live in the moment (easier to say than do) accepting what is rather than what might be.