Journey Clumping!

Now that we live out of town in a village we find ourselves asking more and more as to whether an item is 'worth the drive'. It is funny as we are really not that far from the town we used to live in, in fact distance wise we are longer but time to get there is probably the same. Where we used to live there was always traffic and traffic control systems where as now we can just nip down the dual carriageway or go through the back roads. It just feels like more hassle and I don't know why.

At first I thought we were being lazy so and so's but actually when I started thinking about it, it makes absolute sense to 'clump' journeys together and only go places when you have to. Think about it, it saves you time and stresses of driving places, it saves you money on petrol and on those little 'extra' purchases you make each time and very importantly it is kinder to the environment.

In some ways it is like good old times when you would go into town and spend the day running your errands, butchers, bakers, pharmacy etc. All individual shops that you had to go in. I think the convenience of super markets have made us loose touch with the buying process, I mean, it is all too easy just to run out for that one thing and buy it without thinking. Now I really think about what we need. I plan meals better so that I know we will have food in, but also in doing so there is less food wastage as I try and knock up a meal with what we have in rather than jumping in the car to go to the shops.

I am also finding it quite a time saving device. I can dedicate a day off from work that I am going to spend shopping and running errands, putting food away and all that stuff. It means I don't have chunks out of my day or week popping places unnecessarily. 

It wasn't even a really conscious thing that I was doing but then I wondered why less food was going to waste and how our food bills had gone down. When I looked at it I have to say I was surprised!

It makes perfect sense all round really.

The view from the van window

We're Back!

Well long time no post huh!

Not intentionally really I must add, just that, well life got a bit on the gruelling side for a while and then on the busy side and it is only now that things have fallen back into place and it is time to start blogging again!

So what happened? Well at the time I stopped blogging, I got really poorly. I had pneumonia and was in and out of the hospital like a fiddlers elbow! But I recovered. It was a long, unpleasant illness but I recovered and fully I may add. And then the third biggest thing of our life happened. We finally moved house! Yay!

So we are now in our forever home. Our home where we truly feel happy and settled like we were just meant to be here all along and it is here that we are now able to start thinking about our eco journey again and of course our blogging journey.

We haven't been totally absent from the internet world though. We have been vlogging and some of those vlogs have included stuff about the veggie patch that we have planned. So this post my dear readers is just to say that we are back and to catch you up on the vlog posts until more blog posts find their way!