Author Archives: clodaghstraveltales

Lockdown sucks in so many ways. If January was the trial month of resolutions and intentions, then February is not doing so well on playing catch up🤦🏻‍♀️ If last year was the leap year, then this one, based on experiences to date, looks as though we should be leapfrogging right over it. 🙄🤪 It’s beginningContinue reading “Treadmills and Audiobooks”

If you know me or Himself for that matter, then you will know that boats, and the water, have been a feature for as long as we have been together. There have been fishing boats, canal cruisers, a RIB he brought in from South Africa, no less (don’t ask 🤷🏻‍♀️ 😳)and even a pint sizedContinue reading “Boats, locks & flushing toilets”

Why the odd title? Simple answer is because the local church bells have started ringing outside and this is an off the cuff post, bit like me at the moment, nothing is planned, it happens or it doesn’t. These days, it appears to be more of the latter. Life dictates that we don’t stray farContinue reading “For whom the bell tolls”

Do you remember where you were this time last year or last week for that matter? Me neither. I do remember though, where I was this day 12 years ago. Ageing is inevitable and I would like to think that my increasing collection of wrinkles and scars has brought with them a modicum of associatedContinue reading “Moving in, Moving on…”

We all had plans. Most, if not all of them have been scuppered. Says she towards the middle of the 11th month of the year. Funny how the world throws curve balls – this particular one, so small the naked eye cannot see it. Do I really need a microscope to estimate the damage thatContinue reading “There’s always toast”

It could have been a summers day apart from the air temperature of 4 celcius and a water temperature of 10. It was calm, serene and there wasn’t even a ripple on the water… until a seal broke the surface and started following me. Maybe he was curious, wondering about the weird un-webbed creature bobbingContinue reading “Sea, shells, sand … and a seal”

Today is another first of another month and who knows what day it is. It’s Lockdown Living and I’ve had 2 walks and a swim,in what should have required Wipers, Wellies and Waterproofs. Surprise surprise, I had one out of three and yes, you guessed right, not so waterproof afterall. More drowned rat doing anContinue reading “Wipers, Wellies and Waterproofs”

Did you ever go looking for your glasses only to discover them on your head? Welcome to my world – only now it gets a bit more complicated. Somebody somewhere said things improve with age – they clearly were not talking about eyesight. I’ve been shortsighted for as long as I can remember and wearContinue reading “I can see clearly now (except I can’t cos I can’t get used to my new glasses🤦🏻‍♀️)”