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Glad we are on a hard standing here as it has been raining all day! Big change from yesterday
.Fair turnover of vans, especially MHs. Site still very full.
Decided to have a relaxing day and hope for better weather tomorrow.
We had hoped to go to the CAMC site at Brora, but it was fully booked for the dates we wanted, maybe next year.
We have been keeping in touch with Callum and Nathan via FaceTime, Nathan has suddenly produced 2 teeth so is expanding his menu now he can chew better. They will be joining us next Wednesday for 4 nights, that should be interesting!
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TG we are ok here quite a way from Agen but the pictures were terrible to see cars flooded and folk being rescued, we are high up here from the village but there is a dip between us and that can get very wet and now 104 mm of rain and more on the way and thunder as well which is rumbling around us.
Take care folks.
Off tomorrow for our hotel night away and looking forward to it and a meal in the restaurant on Saturday with our friends, at least the forecast is looking better, will have to make sure the brollies are in the car.
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We got off our pitch fine, ground held up really well considering it rained most of last night. Big puddle on road is still there though, sort of a goodbye drive through car wash🤣 Cloudy but warm, we headed further South to one of our favourite Cornish haunts this afternoon, The Lizard. Warmer and brighter down there. Lovely picnic lunch in MH. Took pooch for a stroll, then we walked right down to old lifeboat station at the Point. Never seen so many seals here before, at least a couple of dozen. Very sad event while down there though. Someone had a dog not on a lead, it set off after a rabbit, and fell down a cliff. In quite a bad way from the look of things, but distraught owners were getting plenty of help to get it to a vet. It’s definitely somewhere dogs need to be very well restrained, so dangerous. We walked around Lighthouse and back round to NT car park. In the past we usually do the whole walk from Church Cove and right round, but didn’t want to leave pooch for too long. So much to see down there. Another bonus was seeing Queen Elizabeth cruising past, back from New York. Got some good photos but can’t post yet. Our last day tomorrow, hoping to get another bike ride in, before we set off back to Exeter.
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Today we moved on further south to another CL that we've not used before, Southwick Farm at Tewkesbury. Because of the accidents on the M6 over the last couple of days we decided to avoid it and travel down initially on the A 49, a road we've used frequently, then the A 442 to Telford and Kidderminster, and finally onto the M5 north of Worcester. It was obviously not the fasted route, but less than 10 mls further and without the possible hold ups north of Birmingham. We saw 3 of the team buses from the Tour of Britain, Jumbo, Movistar and Alpecin as they were heading to the start at Alderley Park. The site is quite shadey and rather compact, but there are plenty of walks from it.
We had rain over night but the day started off dry. We drove through a few short showers on the way down but it was dry when we arrive and also for our afternoon walk, just getting back to the van before the heavens opened. Thankfully it has stopped and it looks better for the next few days.o
Tda, hope that your pitch is now part of the site again and you can get out and about in your bikes once more.
Enjoy your night away, RK.
I wonder how Goldie's second day went with the rain heading that way.
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Had a thoroughly strange day today ! Went into Nantwich for a stroll and a shop, so parked on Morrisons's carpark before strolling round a rather busy Thursday market day in the old town. Shade too warm for Brian but ambled in and out of a shop or six to check on the efficacy of their aircon systems, bought nothing so ambled back into the supermarket. Well it was cooler there and many more folks all sensibly masked-up. Scooted back home to pack away the comestibles & prepare for this evenings final Diamond League Athletics~~ at least todays fun took place in the proper Zurich athletics stadium NOT on the roads round the blooming Opera House
!! Amazingly I managed to escape all the rain although there was not a lot of it hereabouts.No doubt Millieh and all the rest of the gardeners were whistling up the clouds to their areas ~~ well nobody would want to waste water, that oh so rare commodity, on my concrete now would they
Do so hope all Good Folks have enjoyed themselves, especially the wearers of new hats
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Nellie, if you get the chance go to Deerhurst and see Odda's Chapel, there are also some good river walks round there, back towards Tewkesbury etc.
After seven weeks of waiting for a hip x ray result I got the feedback minus the photo, the hospital hadn't sent it! I am non the wiser and have booked myself in for the physio. I saw a visiting GP from Bath who kept me waiting for half an hour and told me X rays were useless (I didn't actually have much faith in his words) I was the only patient in the surgery, I still have the pain that got me to this situation in the first place. When I got outside three neighbours appeared from the pharmacy having had their walk in flu jabs, things seem better organised there. Tomorrow we get ours, back at the surgery....
grrrrrrr rant over 
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Brue good luck with the physio BUT I'd try to get the actual picture from the Xray..can't think why GP would say they're useless as they will show something otherwise why are they done?
Turned out nice yesterday sun came out late morning and a more comfortable 24c. Bright ish start and warm today hopefully we can cut the grass, overnight shower Wednesday/Thursday plus Thursday's sun its growing like spring!
Plenty of police and air ambulance activity over our houses in the last week. Another nasty accident resulting in road closure I fear the worse as it was between a pedestrian and an HGV 😪. Rumours has it one other with the air ambulance was same roundabout collision ending with a vehicle on its roof.
The traffic levels seem to be a high as pre pandemic from my observations. Schools and colleges, as well as nursery's seem to have one starting time rather than staggered. So our walk was interesting especially when you add in cyclists and rubbish collection day (that's 4 different trucks). Also the drainemptying wagon was out too 🤣
We have 2 nursery schools, 2 infant schools, 1 junior school, 1 senior school and 2 college campus plus 3 private schools within the neighbourhood or walking distance I'd forgotten the footfall this creates not to mention driving in hurry parents this creates 😲
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WN My Dad had one of those medical alarms that he was supposed to wear round his neck, Where was it when he fell over in his flat and couldn't move? On his dressing table
. Said he didn't like wearing it in case he set it off accidentally.Bakers2 Your local school run sounds a bit like ours from our house into town. I avoid school times like the plague. I won't start my duty at the Cathedral until 9.30 as I just sit in one traffic jam after another. I do wonder if anyone actually walks to school these days.
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We do have walkers, scooters and cyclists of all ages with and without parents making their way to school. Our state schools have good reputation and most locals send their children. Those local who use the private schools also go under their own steam. The roads with the private schools and those surrounding them are horrendous because they all need to have HUGE vehicles to protect their offspring - not so concerned about others offspring who aren't in their vehicle. Or where they park them😡😤🤐
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There seem to have been no end of bad accidents on major roads lately Nellie. We got all the way down from South Yorks to here using only around 20 miles of motorway, that was two junctions of M1, and two junctions of M5. Our worst hold up was that overturned camper on the A30 at Okehampton. We leave here tomorrow morning, hoping for an early flyer up to Exeter, one night on Racecourse, then head East to wind our way home via Chard, Devizes and Cotswold areas, from Moreton we will do Fosse Way home. So much to see away from motorways, we love touring this way.
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WN wrote "Plenty of grey hair on view"
I knew I was getting on for needing a haircut but I didn't realise it had achieved the magnitude of the Great Wall of China - visible from space/ Dartmouth.
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Unless I'm very much mistaken CY you have yet to be seen with it in a ponytail. More hair hanging down the back of the head than on top, and the men were just as bad.
Mizzling this morning so jobs done. Tried to hunt down a Calor gas Butane bottle without success. May be off towards Plymouth tomorrow on a cycle so will check out any suppliers thereabouts. Hate to be without a back up.
Had a very interesting discussion with a Weasel today. See "What Have you seen thread" for details as I don't wish to duplicate. Managed a walk starting at lunchtime from Bantham Beach area along the coastal path for about 3 miles before returning the same way. The rain kept off until we got back to the caravan when we took our canopy awning down as the winds have changed direction and it's making a bit of a fuss.
Millie we were the emergency people to contact if one of our elderly lady neighbours had a fall and used her emergency button. She did it twice and we had spare keys to enter the house and help her and call the paramedics.She said she gave up her dignity years before so didn't have a problem with it.
MiL has said she'll definitely have one if the need arises.
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We had another wonderful day yesterday. Wednesday was definitely “Presidents Day” and we were transported here there and every where by golf type buggies. Home by 8:30 ish and glad of a sit in a comfy chair. Up again at 5 for milking and back on the show field by 8.
Yesterday was not just about us, but our two royal visitors (Princess Royal and Countess of Wessex). Sophie - as she is known here - is closely involved with the show, having been President in 2013.
An earlier finish to the day, then back for a post show dinner, with mainly the staff and stewards.
A wonderful two days - all in glorious sunshine.
We are now relaxing in a hotel 9 miles from home. Nearly time for dinner
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Nellie, if you get the chance go to Deerhurst and see Odda's Chapel, there are also some good river walks round there, back towards Tewkesbury etc.
Brue, I posted this on another forum, and tomorrow intend doing the other part of the walk you've suggested.
Cloudy cooler day with just a few short showers until this evening when the rain came on a bit heavier. Walked from the site to Deerhurst to view the Anglo-Saxon church (c 850)
http://wasleys.org.uk/eleanor/churches/e...index.html
and Odda's Chapel (built 1056).
http://wasleys.org.uk/eleanor/churches/e...index.html
The church was more interesting than the chapel IMO. We then walk along the bank of the Severn to Apperley and back along the lanes and part of our outward route.
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Talking to another caravanner on the CL who came down from Barnsley yesterday and they were held up for over an hour because of a road accident, then today it was reported that there was an 11ml tailback south on the M5 from one of the Worcester junctions. It seems to be getting worse.
Have a safe trip back north.
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I hope that your Dinner was up to Standard Goldie. So very pleased that your Partner, The President, remembers who pre-packs his porridge and corn flakes thro those dark days we have yet to come.
Seriously I trust that you all had a brilliant, enjoyable time setting such high standards for the next thirty- plus years, you workers certainly deserved it !!
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Thanks Nellie. We are only going up to Exeter tomorrow, via Tavistock. Planning an early getaway hopefully. From there, couple of nights near Chard. Going home in hops rather than a long run.
Forgot to mention, we had smooth newts on our pitch earlier this week, a nice surprise. 😁
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Had a lovely night away and good food last night as the staff found out about our 50th anniversary so at today's meal with friends when the staff came out with the deserts we had cake sparklers on ours and 3 staff singing to us and wishing a lovely day in French and English so of course everybody else started clapping not used to the attention also somebody had a birthday so had the staff singing again, had a bottle of bubbly from our friends and a lovely lily plant with gold colour flowers on and our friend had made us a 50th anniversary cake so a slice of that for tea and to full, we had a great view of the local stream from our balcony and plenty of trout in it as the hotel is named after the fish.
Had a good walk around the village and found roads we had not been on before very interesting and as we walked back down one narrow road we had pvc motorhome coming towards us following the sat nav and we said wrong road and later saw them going up the correct road towards the autoroute it had an Italian numberplate on, even saw 1 dutch 1 German and plenty of French motorhomes yesterday and today as a local campsite and aire type parking area for motorhomes with about 6 mvs on.
Just chilling out at home now.
Enjoy the rest of your breaks folks.
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Many congratulations Redkite. Less for murder 😉. A real cause for celebration. 🥂🎉👏
Delighted you had a lovely hotel stay and that some extra celebration at meal time followed. Sounds like a lovely gift, one I'd be very pleased with, and a cake too..
Enjoy what's left of today remember your wedding day and take it easy for the rest of the weekend.
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Forgot to mention, we had smooth newts on our pitch earlier this week, a nice surprise. 😁
As opposed to the normal sort of Newts found on your pitch??😂😂
Hope the journey went well. You probably passed within a few miles of us today as we cycled up the Drake Trail from Saltram House towards Tavistock. We enjoyed the day. Even found a replacement Butane gas on the way back to the caravan at a petrol station. Fortunately they had a delivery yesterday. Got back and have packed as much as we can for our onward trip tomorrow.
I know prices are rising on CLs but there's a Bentley on site at one of the units! Time for us lower house staff to leave.😂
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Saltram House! We used to live across the valley from the estate, WN, and the grounds were one of our regular dog walking spots.
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Hope your journey to Exeter was uneventful, tda, and that your's tomorrow is similar WN.
Congratulations RK, your night away sound lovely.
We again walked from the site, this time down to the river and along into Tewkesbury. There was a caravan going into the site at 11:30!😯 We couldn't go into the Abbey as there was a wedding taking place. The bride arrived in the longest, white, stretched limo that we've ever seen, don't know how many bridesmaids were accompanying her but it was big enough for full rugby union team!!
Picnic lunch in the park before doing some of the Battlefield trail before returning to the van in time to see the final kilometres of today's stage of the Tour of Britain. Already now for our move on down to Priddy tomorrow.
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Coo, we were close😁 We drove up from Site via Liskeard,Callington, had a nice stop at Kit Hill for lunch, through Gunnislake and then into Tavistock. Busiest place we have been all year, but most folks being careful, shops well organised. Then up over Dartmoor, back out onto A38 via Bovey Tracey.
Racecourse is very busy tonight, possibly full. Been out round course on bike a few times, just to get some exercise in. We move on tomorrow, new CL to us, but comes highly recommended.We did an early flyer from Marazion, hoping to miss most of traffic further up at roadworks. Worked out well, occasionally slow, but it was moving.
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Shame you didn’t get into the Abbey Nellie. It’s one of my favourite churches, a who’s who of folks buried in there. Very pleasant journey once we got through roadworks and up to Bodmin. I think timing is key to getting through when you head down. 👍 Will be in touch with some walks etc, if you want any, and good beaches, quiet ones😁
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It's in a lovely spot TW but there's an awful lot of new building going up at Elburton, as there is in most places it seems these days.
Places like Saltram can swallow a lot of people on the estate. Seemed to be have been a lot quieter when we first visited it 30 years ago.
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