Watching a beautiful sunset in the UK

One of things I love to see is a beautiful sunset, I quite like sun rises as well, although I see less of them as I'm not much of a morning person.

Last year I was lucky enough to film a beautiful sunset from my own front door, something we don't see too many of here in the north east of England.

Rare Spoonbills on the river Wansbeck

Recently my husband commented that there must be a new bird on our local river, as he had seen a lot of twitchers ( bird watchers) going past.

When we went to have a look we discovered these beautiful spoonbills. So I took some photos and made a video, the island is a small nature reserve which is in the middle of the river.

How to make money online, Instagc

One of the things I like to do is to make money online. Let's be honest extra money always comes in handy,

I'm a member of various sites and I thought I'd share my thoughts on them, starting with Instagc.

Instagc is one of those sites that offers a little bit of everything, it has a search facility, offer boards, tasks, surveys and point booster codes. To use the point booster codes you need to have made 1 point in the last 5 days. The points themselves are easy to find with many being posted on facebook.

Getting Paid
That's the part you really want to know :) Whilst instagc isn't ever going to make you rich you can easily get gift vouchers from them, they stock a range of different vouchers from just £1, and I usually cash out straight away from amazon. Currently a £1 Amzon voucher costs 160 points.  One of the best things about this site is the vouchers come instantly so there is no waiting around.

Making the Money

Offer boards are well online boards which have different offers you can do, these in general need a lot of caution as they can lead to spam email and spam calls to any phone you use. I would advise against downloading anything unless you are sure of where it has come from. That said if you are cautious there are some easy offers. The boards also offer paid to watch videos and surveys.

The offer wall I use most often is called Minute Staff as these are various ads that you click on for different amounts of points, whilst they are quite low paid they are quick and easy to do. My second favourite is probably peanut labs as they also offer different surveys, although I quite often do these on other sites.

Paid search, Instagc offers a search facility through which by doing ordinary searches you can win points.

Tasks On Instagc you can get paid for doing various internet based tasks, mostly through Crowdflower. I do them from time to time, and you simply go to that page, a list of what's available to you will be displayed along with how much it will pay. Ones I've done includes searching for websites, or verifying work.

Surveys

Instagc now has it's own survey section which offers a range of different surveys, you're u can also do surveys on the peanut labs wall.

Instagc also have an active membership with a chat facility and competitions each week, as well as sweepstakes. It's also possible like many sites to earn from referrals. 

So in conclusion I find these a fun site to use, and one you can quickly get vouchers from.

Building a Swallows Nest

Last year we were lucky enough to have a pair of swallows build a nest under our front porch. They went on to successfully raise 3 chicks, which we were overjoyed about.

Swallows are such beautiful little birds, which are a real feature of the Uk, although they are mostly seen flying.

It's now that time again and I'm thrilled to say we think they are back, at least they have flown back and forwards to inspect the nest, and are generally hanging around chirping at each other. Hopefully they will go on to have some more chicks this year, and I'll get lots of photos and videos.

The video here is a photo video I made last year, it shows photos of the nest at various stages as it was built using mud and twigs from our local river.

Seagulls at Amble in Northumberland

This is my video taking in 2015 of some seagulls bobbing in the water at Amble.

I love all birds and I find this video quite relaxing to watch.

                   

The Beautiful North Sea at Cambois, Northumberland

Cambois is my local beach here in Northumberland, it's a lovely quiet beach with beautiful sand.

It doesn't really have any amenities apart from a pub at one end, and plenty of car parks so it doesn't really attract a lot of people apart from dog walkers.

In my video I am zooming into the neighbouring resort of Newbiggin by the sea, well it's church :)

Why I love Sun holidays

In common to last year this year I went away on a Sun newspaper caravan holiday.

For those of you who don't know the Sun newspaper here in the UK runs several promotions throughout the year for a cheap caravan holiday starting at £9.50 a person. The holiday is based on 4 people so actually costs from £38 for either 4 nights mid week or 3 nights over the weekend in a caravan park.

You collect codes from the newspaper over the promotion, and when you have enough you book through the post or online. It's a bit more fiddly than a normal booking as you have to give a choice of 4 places you want to go, and especially if you do it by post you're not guaranteed your first choice, I prefer to book online as you can check on their site what is still available.

There's quite a wide choice of where you can go in the UK, last year me and my husband went to Scotland and this year me and my husband went with my parents to Skegness, stopping at the Golden Palm holiday park.

The holiday itself was good fun, although the caravan was a bit too snug for 4 adults. Skegness itself is a great place to visit though, with lots to do.

The main reason I love the Sun deal though is they provide a great cheap holiday base to see places in the UK you might otherwise not bother with, or not be able to afford.

Skegness for me is one of those places, it's not somewhere I would ordinarily think of going, but I really enjoyed it.