I've been wanting to move my blog away from Blogspot for a while but could never be bothered to actually do it. This week was the tipping point though, and I've now fully migrated over to https://patsypoomakes.wordpress.com/ . The blogspot address will remain here but all new posts will only appear at https://patsypoomakes.wordpress.com/ . There are lots of reasons for the move but my biggest one is how hard Blogger has made it for people to subscribe to receive new posts via email. It's such a basic requirement but apparently, they think it's too much to offer. I'm basing this purely on how I myself prefer to consume this stuff. I can't be arsed with feed readers anymore and emails are easy and convenient. When I receive one, if I fancy reading it, I will click through to it and, if not, I'll just delete it. Another reason is the spat between Google (owners of Blogger) and Instagram/Facebook/Meta. I don't even know if this is still the case anymore ...
We love camping. Well, it was camping until last summer but after being caught up in the awful Wales floods in June last year, as we were packing up the trailer tent something like this came out of my lips: "I am NEVER doing this again. If you want to keep going away, you will have to get us a caravan." And so he did. Truth be told, he was pretty p***ed off with it as well. It was just awful! Nós adoramos acampar. Bom, até o ano passado era com barraca e tudo mas agora compramos um trailer - depois do trauma de estar acampando na área quando isso ocorreu no ano passado. Enquanto levantávamos acampamento disse pro meu marido que NUNCA mais eu queria ter que passar por isso. Duas semanas depois, compramos o trailer. Last weekend we went off for the first time this year, down to Derbyshire - Mr Darcy country - and stayed on a campsite just about on the grounds of Chatsworth House . I love Pride and Prejudice (film or book. The book is one of my favourites!), we had incre...