Blogs from Hastings, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 3

Wednesday 11th July Today, re-inspired by Live Earth I decided to offset my carbon footprint for the year via the website http://www.carbonfootprint.com/. It has a calculator where you enter how much electricity, fuel etc you consume and it ended up costing me about £60 to help fund a tree planting project. I also bought energy saving light bulb that use 12W instead of 60W for the same brightness and looked at switching to green power sourced from renewable energy. It only cost about 10% more than normal power but unfortunately our power meter was a weird type that would have to be changed for us to be able to use it. I also researched powering the Pug partially with vegetable oil as it is a diesel and has no problem running at least 25% vege oil. ... read more

Got up at 6:30am with a killer hangover to get to my aunties place for 8, for a 2 hour drive with a huge smelly labrador in the car to get to Sussex by 10:30, to get to the pub for 11 for quick few pints before horse riding at 12...... My head hurt. We went horse riding in the woods in Winnie the Poo's country. Where Poo's bridge is (the original poo sticks bridge) and Christopher Robins house. If my head didn't hurt every time the horse moved I would have found it amazing. The woods were beautiful and we saw lots of grey squirrels. We got off the horses and I thought my legs would never be the same again. I went with my auntie Linda and my cousin Alex and Linda's friend ... read more

Hello!! Just thought we would update you all on our story so far!! We had to go to Brighton again (what a shame!!) for terri to register with some recruitment agencies so we decided to stay the day and have some fun!! We had subz for lunch in the park by an old english house.(The Pavillion) which was very nice then we walked down to the pier and beach and Terri got to buy some doughnuts (Mmmmm!!) and Leondre wanted to go on the rides but they were way too expensive!! it was £8 each for one ride...you do the maths!! The rest of this last week we have been working for Terris mum again, in the meantime Terri had two job interviews and Leondre went to Leicester for 2 days to meet with some ... read more

Hi all, So we finally made it to England!! We will first though tell you all about our mad week in Jo'burg! After a very bumpy and terbulant flight we landed in Jo'burg! Then we got a bit lost trying to find Leondre's brothers car at the airport, which he had left for us to use. We found it eventually and made our way to my Aunt's house who we would be staying with for the week. She unfortunatly got stuck at work so we had to entertain ourselves for a few hours in the mall until she arrived home! When she got there it it was just enough time for us to get changed and head out the door again to meet Leondre's friends at a Monte Casino pub. The next day we went ... read more

This is a back-dated blog telling of two recent trips we made in search of a beach this winter. Our first ‘beach trip’ occurred in November when we took off to Brighton. Yes Brighton. Brighton was featured in the1979 classic ‘Quadrophenia’ and the place where the ‘Mods and Rockers’ threw a few chairs around back in the 1960’s. Like everyone else who visits Brighton for the first time, we (Noogs, Sam, Anna W, Chris and I) made headlines for the pier…. Hmmmm…. The pier - an ‘interesting’ place. An ensemble of rides, food stalls and side show amusements sitting above the water on a pier. Hench the name. The pier is so tacky it was highly amusing. What we really enjoyed was the people watching. Ha ha - I could have hung out there for hours! ... read more