Plans progressing and armchair exploring

 We got the 2nd thing off our Needs/Wants list yesterday, a small relatively cheap thing... nevertheless it's another item ticked off the list.  Hopefully we'll be getting the 3rd item next month, then it'll be a big ticket item in March when it's the first of our bonus money months.  

Husband's birthday today, he's going to the gym this morning (good for him!  I thought he'd have cried off it today).  He's having his steak dinner treat tonight, I'll probably have a jacket spud with tuna cheese melt.  He said he didn't want a pudding, which suits me as I'm not really a pud lover.  We have plenty of fruit if he does decide he wants something sweet.

Our friend rang yesterday to say she'd like to come round Friday morning, she was our first visitor not long after we moved in a year ago, we've seen her a handful of times since, she's one of our neighbours from our old house.  We'll have lots to chat about, she says she's got plenty of gossip!  A small part of me cringed when she (laughingly) said that - it made me realise that I don't miss living in the old place at all and am not particularly interested in what our old neighbours are getting up to.  And yet when we lived there I thought I liked it....I was just kidding myself really.  Now I don't have to, I genuinely love it here.

We've already had 3 people saying they want to come down and visit in the spring - husband's daughter and son in law, my sister and our lovely friends from Kent.  When the weather improves a bit, we want to start getting out and exploring the area a bit more, so we have new places to go with our visitors.  I'm sure there are hidden gems not too far away, although we live on the edge of Exmoor we've hardly seen much of it.  I might do some armchair exploring on the internet today, to give me some ideas.  More snow is forecast today in the south, but it looks like we'll escape it, thank goodness.  Apparently it's supposed to be a bit warmer next week.... again I say roll on Spring!