So I had a long hard word with myself and told myself I need to get over this fear otherwise I am going to not going to make the most of and enjoy this trip. So words to myself – You have got this and I am going out into the world with confidence to have a fun filled adventure of lots of great learning and great people.
With this new mindset, I took myself to a coffee shop and sat there drinking a hot chocolate, calmy and like a real tourist using their WIFI getting my blog post sorted and waiting for rush hour on the trains to pass. And then I set off and found my way to Cambridge with no hassles. I even helped a girl out who wasn’t sure which train to catch!!
Its a grey day in the UK but the fields looks awesome filled with wheat and all of the summer flowers out. And I passed through main of the towns I had been checking out for a places to stay. The taxi driver informs me I have come on the wrong day as they have had the best summer ever. It was funny as we drove past some freshly mown grass, the smell immediately told me it was summer. I even made the Taxi drivers day as he had never spoken to anyone from Tasmania
Cambridge – what a beautiful town, lovely little streets and is so english. Yes I am in England.
With a fair bit of anxiety about booking a AirBnb for the first time, I rocked up to find a very English house house with a lovely owner Helen. I was a bit a taken back at how welcoming she was and that I was welcomed for diner and then to have some tea. I suppose thats what AirBnb are all about.
To top off the first experience, I walk into my room and I have a lovely bunch of flowers picked for me and a window that looks over a lovely english rose garden with blue bells, roses, water lilys and even some natives from Australia.
As I showed so much interest in the garden we sat outside and drank tea. This place is my kind of place, how did I pick such a great place for my first experience?!
The garden also has an awesome pond of water lilies. They are so vibrant in colour and just like your stereotype picture of water lilies. and the top off there is a cool frog peaking out from under a leaf.
This has lifted my confidence going forward for sure and it just shows you what a shift in mindset can do for you.
and just few more pictures to show you how much I love flowers and gardens. Yes I might be studying soil health but really it is all about for me growing good healthy plants cause I love growing plants!
I enjoyed to see this blog post beginning the next stage of the Nuffield years. Thankyou for the opportunity to hear of some of the bigger world horizons that you are experiencing with many familial loves and sensitivities.
How nice for a start to land into the traditions and hospitality of a English summer garden and to be feeling the roots of keen garden growing grandparents on both sides.
And now on to learning more about retaining the loveliest nurturing skills of ‘Man the Gardener’ now residing in the pressures of an industrialised world.
Best Wishes from Mum