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Yes we did walk past Barn Farm site. Heaving! It did look well kept though and there are some H/S for caravans and M/Hs.
The Druid was doing food as well but it was after 3 pm when we arrived so we settled for a half of cider and a packet of crisps. We know how to push the boat out!
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Just finished sorting a few bits and bobs into a couple of B H F bags and noticed the setting sun shining up onto the lower surface of the clouds -- Looks almost as if Crewe Town Centre is on fire !! Well they are steadily demolishing it, so we can but hope
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That’s good news for you, glad things went well👍
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We are home again now, after four lovely days away. Perfect weather, lovely Site, great fun doing a bit of cycling and walking, and some good wildlife spotting. We drove to Normanby Hall on way home, but far too busy for us, so had a meander home by a scenic route, called in to see relatives who live on the Isle of Axholme, spent some dosh in a nice garden centre, had a lovely picnic on the banks of the Chesterfield Canal, quick unpack, of MH, and watered garden. A good little fairly local break....
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Just the same here on the Hereford/Wales border.
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Pleased to hear your news David about your daughter's vaccination, AD.
Good to hear that you got home safe and sound, tda, and that you had a fine walk, WN.
Cooler day but still fine. Easy drive up from Brecon to our next CL at Olerton, between Ludlow and Leominster. Site full tonight although it looks as if at least one van is away tomorrow.
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Very difficult for some AD, it’s been a hard year for us keeping Mum safe, had to restrict a lot of what she really enjoys, such as browsing nice shops, going out for a cuppa, garden centres etc... Let’s hope things get better for us all, but particularly for those who need extra help with their lives. Good that your daughter will benefit from the vaccine now, hope it gives her a lot more safety.
We enjoyed our first meal out today, since March 2020. CL we had been staying on has a really lovely cafe and tearoom. Fabulous attention to cleanliness, very strictly controlled. We decided to sit and eat in rather than outside which had been our original intention. Small pleasures have become rather special....😁
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It has only just stopped raining , heavy at times , since early this morning, so have stayed put ,apart from taking Rosa for comfort walks in the site dog walk
, grass pitches very squelchy again
For those interested I have had the monthly email from Bailey ,and there is a test? With a Tessla towing the new small Bailey two berth
Do not know how to give a link ,but it will be on their marketing website, make of it what you want??
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We arrived here on site early afternoon only 45 min tow from home. Weather is excellent very sunny and warm got set up quickly and got the Cadac out for dinner excellent. Now going to sit outside and have a few drinks and enjoy this weather.
Hope everyone else has a nice weekend
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Dry and sunny in parts today, bit cooler than of late with a breeze.
Car and caravan now all packed (except fridge stuff) ready for the off on Sunday. Grass and garden also all done. Just got to give OH a hair cut, had mine done yesterday
OH has been busy renewing car tax (mine) MH tax and insurance and home insurance. Its been and expensive couple of days as 2 of them had to be MOT'd as well
I did a batch cooking yesterday afternoon, freezer now full to the brim. Haven't a clue what we are eating tonight though
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Hope you all enjoy your breaks, we've had lovely weather and I think we've got more on the way.
Our neighbours are getting near their house moves (two adjoining houses so we will have two sets of new arrivals.) And another clearing out their occasionally used holiday home so that a family member can stay there for awhile, so it seems like all change.
We got up early to help our daughter with some plans but she changed them so weve been mooching around tidying up parts of the garden.
Like Goldie the silage has been cut and the ground fertilised again for another cut later. Lots of activity and also noise in the air from all the holiday travellers, a lot of gridlocked roads today.
The Red Arrows will be around tomorrow, on the move in the SW, hoping we might see them but if you're down here look up the flight schedule for a possible view.
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Well, if eating flying insects is now considered healthy for you I can only say that we are extremely healthy. I know exactly how a Swallow feels. They were hard to avoid on certain actions of our cycle today. However it didn't stop us having a smashing day.
We stopped in on the owners of the cottage we hired at the end of April and had a great laugh and a cup of tea. They've not long acquired a caravan so we had plenty in common but they're a lovely couple.
Managed about 25 miles today in hazy sun this morning which went to full sun later on. Gave the bikes a clean when we got back. Mostly dust.
It's a beautiful evening. Will head outside in a second for a cuppa and laze for an hour or so.
Have a good time Francis. You usually do. You'd like the cycling here.
Best of British Brue. We haven't had the best of luck with neighbours recently.
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We had a bit of a lazy day today. Went for a drive to view some of the Black and White villages, Dilwyn, Woebley and Pembridge. Have still managed to walk nearly 9mls so far, so keeping up a good average this month.
Although Pembridge has some fine old houses, and a lovely display in the church of the village's history done on tapestries, it is a busy village with lots of traffic going along the A44 towards mid Wales. Both the other 2 are much quieter, being just off a main road, and the larger, Woebley, has a well illustrated village trail, and also 2 free car parks.It has been a fine day, warmer than forecast. I sat outside of the caravan in T shirt, shorts and sandals in lovely warm sunshine till 8:30 or so.
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"Best of British Brue. We haven't had the best of luck with neighbours recently."
Neither have we, WN, but perhaps things are looking up!. The totally dysfunctional family that lived next door to us for the last six years, finally moved out last Friday. Good riddance. Never did a thing to the garden - or the house for that matter and the place was like a jungle - unlike all the nicely kept houses around us. Glad to see the back of them and the fact that the young couple that have moved in with two small children seem very nice and have already done more in a week to tidy the place up than the last lot did in six years!
That said, the new owners were kept waiting on the drive - together with a four month old baby - until 5 o'clock in the afternoon whilst the previous owners made a half hearted attempt to move out - despite the fact that the transaction went over at 10.00 that morning! Totally inconsiderate to the end. A very upsetting start to them moving into their new home - but at least we were able to make them a coffee whilst they, very patiently, waited.
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Every Village has them rich🤷🏻♂️. It sometimes shocks me at folk moving into an isolated Hamlet to then be shocked by the isolation & lack of ‘city infrastructure’. We had one until a couple of years ago who bought a property here & started setting up a salvage & vehicle repair business. Not an issue until the banging & hammering started dawn til dusk, add to that vehicles lines up along the only Village thru road thus hindering Farm vehicle passage due to the choke point. Aye, some folk don’t understand inconsiderate.
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Think there will be a lot more of that sort of thing with people moving after the pandemic but it also goes the other way. Friends in a village have new neighbours who moved from the city cos they wanted the 'country life' they moved in 3 weeks ago. So far they have moaned that the internet is so slow, there is no bus service. Yes you would have thought they would have checked that before moving. Now it's, ' do our friends have to keep chickens' Well they have done for the last 30 years! with no complaints, no cockrals mind, just a few chicken.
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Very big change in the weather today not a cloud in the sky
Site starting to empty out with the half turn finishing ,Mr manager and Mrs both out cutting pitches and general tidy up,
Two TA units arrived at 1130.they have now left until arrival time of 1300
One turned up at 0710 this morning and rang bell for site staff to let him in.
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I am going to be controversial now!!! I just could not live in some isolated place in the countryside, even in a village. A city lad at heart. Mind you, where we live we probably have the best of all worlds as we have a very green environment around us but we also have fast and direct routes to all corners of the City. Everything is at hand. I suppose with our hobby we are lucky that we have the best of both worlds.
David
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I was a city girl, but my roots seem to be in the country.
Just before lockdown we had another new set of neighbours from central London, very central in the city itself. Sadly lockdown has prevented them integrating into the village, there has been no social life for them and one of them has become quite depressed. Despite our best efforts to chat and always speak to them I can see they may not manage to stay.
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OH is round at our elderly departing neighbours, digging up some nice irises, some for us and some for them to take to their new abode. That will be my little memory of them, they have a lovely cottage garden that many stop to admire. No loneliness there when you have a corner cottage and lots of passersby!
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We have the best of both worlds here being semi rural, with all the facilities of a large town , with really good transport links, and the older we get the more it is realised what we have
I would hate to live in a village as some of our friends with no shops /doctors one bus morning and one evening. or other facilities we take for granted
Although by moving to even nearer my daughter(who keeps trying)which would give us a very healthy bank balance if we sold and bought near her we would be quite isolated even more so if I could not drive
As we have been told several times "it is no wonder you do not want to move from your area with every thing you have",
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We live in a village but over the past 36 years it has tripled in size with 4 new large estates. Very difficult now to get a Dr appointment with our village Dr and youngsters moaning ( quite rightly) that there is no room for their children in the village school, so they have to travel elsewhere. Developers should be made to pay for more facilities.Sometimes people move to the country and just don't realise the lack of facilities out of town and how rural it actually is. Our friends- see previous post - also have 4 bee hives tucked away at the end of their large garden, they are now waiting for their new neighbours to complain about those when they realise.
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When we were staying at Ashridge Farm club site on the edge of Ashwell village,(very nice)we met one of the local councillors who very much said the same about their village ,which is in the middle of arable farmland and even a group of newbies got together ,and have managed to get the centuries old church clock chimes ,muffled, and now only ring during daylight hours ,even more hoses are being planned and even now the infrastructure drainage at times is not able to cope
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We are also very lucky with where we live. Half a minute drive down to the nearby roundabout, turn left, and we are out in open countryside.
Or turn left from our house and out to the main road and we are only a 20-30 minute drive to Loch Lomond.
2 large villages with supermarkets, doctors, dentists etc within a 5-10 minute drive, a small Lidl and a few other shops within easy walking distance, and only 20 minutes by train to Glasgow Central.
DD would love to move to a house in the country, but it would not be practical for work or school, and her OH is a real townie anyway. She used to love living in the trendy West End of the City, but is now older and wiser and has moved out a bit further.
DS and family made the move to an old farmhouse with 20 acres just over 10 years back, but they are just on the edge of a very small village. No shops or other facilities, but not too far to a bigger place which has all they need, and only a 30 minute drive to Glasgow city centre, not that they ever go there. Plenty of out of town shopping much closer to them, and food is delivered by Mr Tesco.
Local schools are not too bad, they could have gone private if they wanted. DIL has to travel about 20 minutes to her work (primary teacher), while DS has worked from home for almost 15 years. I cannot see them moving for a very long time.
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