What are you all up to
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Yes, brue, a scorcher of a week in prospect!
As it's going to get hot later on we decided to take an early morning trip to walk around the coast path from Crantock and look at the West Pentire poppy fields which are in full bloom right now and looking gorgeous. A bit early for the corn marigolds which provide a lovely contrast but spectacular all the same.
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Gorgeous M. 👍
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Lovely pictures M. The poppies look beautiful and Ralph is a proper poser. Glad you had a good day tda. I think you deserved it after a bit of a 'down' week.
After a good journey yesterday, apart from the Kings Lynn big roundabout to the turn off for Cromer which was one long traffic jam with traffic constantly changing lanes, we arrived to a lovely welcome and wonderful weather. This is our view for the next 2 weeks.
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Lovely photos M and glad the weather is good I love fields of poppies, we have a few fields around here but most are going over now.
We have 30C today and getting very hot this week upto 40C just a bit hot for us so as the above pool now finished will try it our tomorrow as it is warming up nicely not keen on very cold water even OH who does not do much swimming these days may come in for a cool down as the pool not big enough for swimming in except in small circles ha ha.
Enjoy your breaks folks.
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I think MillieH will let you off there Moulesy lad. Very forgiving these " Guides " you know
Anyway, I'm getting ready for Christmas now ~~ Just ordered this year's Cards from the company Benevolent fund
. Must remember to store 'em in plain sight this year ~~ in Jan 2021 I found a strange package lurking behind the P.C. screen, gulp 
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Millie being landlocked I do like a nice sea view, have a lovely holiday. RedKite if it gets hot this week I'll also be envious of your pool, I bet you'll be pleased you've got it. 😀
ABM I changed the pic at least two weeks ago...just shows how strangely this site works...
One of those days here, had to get cracking early as OH has a pal who can't operate his new fangled phone so he came over for a rescue attempt. We discovered his phone was in airplane mode but he hadn't noticed that was even on his phone...However the friend had been up even earlier sorting out the horses for another friend who had gone to the Melplash Steam fair in Dorset. So an early start and cups of tea and coffee all round whilst the Brues still try to lick their garden into shape for the open day.
Tonight we meet our daughter and partner's new rescue terrier while they do their music bit at the Green Scythe Fair in sunny Somerset.
Must remember the roads will soon be blocked for Glastonbury everything is back full swing! I 🎪
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So on the bikes and off to the Biesbosch Reserve situated to the eats of Dordrecht.
Haven't had chance to spend much time on CT, but doing a bit of catching up when your post caught my eye WN. Dordrecht - it's where I was born! I haven't been there for many years now, last time we went to Holland was in 2019, but didn't get to Dordrecht on that occasion.
Elfstedentocht - I remember watching it on TV quite a few times when I was a child; sign of the times obviously, I think winters were colder back then, in the last century
Enjoy the rest of your trip.
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Lovely view Millie. If you haven’t been, the Norfolk Lavender Centre has some gorgeous plants for sale. I do like Lavender plants, in fact am potting some on this very afternoon.
OH is busy building a new step out of house, down onto terrace. It was getting a dodgy climbing out, especially with a cuppa in hand.
Red kite, would love to see a photo of your pool, I would love a pool in our garden. Always envious when watching Tour de France of all the houses with pools. A current pool would do me, 3 metres with a current flow at one end, could swim for miles then🤣
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Will get a photo done tomorrow and put it on here it is really small 3.05 metres across and 1.32 metre high, but will e enough for me to get in and keep cool this week I hope, our friends pool is 3.90 metres across and we helped them put it up in April and they are using it most days although prefer warmer water
Agree with you re Tour de France and the pools wow some are huge, another pair of friends have got an in ground pool a bit bigger than ours but Lynn just had cast of her wrist and now a brace on it and physio this week so hoping to get back in the pool, theirs is a salt pool as that is all they put in now here in France.
Had a fox appear the other side of the wall next to OH's shed it was on top of some old building blocks which did not get used and now starting to break up, not sure whether the fox was a vixen did not look and it soon moved away when it saw me.
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Great shots of the poppies and of you with the dogs, M.
Hope you have a good time on the Norfolk coast, millie. We might get over that way some time this year, if we can afford the cost of the fuel required to get there.
Have nearly completed the booking of our next trip, this time to Wales mainly, with a couple of new CLs, a club site and a small commercial site we used last year where we hope to go and see some more Ospreys, along with 3 other CLs that we have used in the past. Just need to find another new site for the last couple of days in the way home.
I wonder how Robsail is getting along, as not noticed a post from him for a few weeks. Fingers crossed that things have improved in that time.
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InaD if you do get back to Dordrecht then the site in town is very good. A bit like the old Municipals in France. I'll do a review next week in UK campsite website.
Back on home soil on a CL in Essex for 1 night after decanting from the ferry after having spent 5 wonderful weeks in the company of friendly Dutch folk. We saw more Sea Eagles than Brits! 3-0. Been to 8 different provinces and only stayed at 1 place before and both times it was just for the first night from the ferry. Felt almost normal after last 2 years of COVID and lockdowns.
Will have a slow meander home this week.
Nice photos of folk away. Enjoy your holidays folks
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Very windy again here in East Lothian, but mainly dry and sunny.
This morning we visited the nearby Preston Mill (NTS) which milled oats up till about 1960. Very interesting guided tour.
After lunch back at the van, we headed for North Berwick for some shopping. Not as much stuff as we first planned as we will stock up in Berwick-on-Tweed instead of lugging it all with us.
However, the family joining us may be in doubt as we just heard that Callum is not feeling well and has a temperature, we shall see. Just as well we put off the big shop.
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Sorry ABM I casually called it a steam rally but it was the West Dorset vintage tractor and static something or other which includes steam...our friends take part in all things vintage and steam locally. But as you can see I'm not au fait with every detail!
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WN, thanks for that, will look out for it on UKCS. We've usually stayed at Delftse Hout, as a friend of mine lives within biking distance of that site, so it's convenient. But from what you say, the site at Dordrecht sounds good, so next time it may be time for a change.
Safe onward journey home.
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After yesterday's poppy fields, we spotted 3 or 4 fields covered in blue flowers today. They are phacelia, grown to be ploughed back into the land as a natural manure. Very colourful.
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It’s one of the things we miss not getting down there as much as we used to M. It’s a lovely time of year is early Summer.
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We grow those flowers at home Moulesy, a packet of seeds scattered around, bees love them. Got the idea from our local NT, they grow them as a border plant in the veg garden at Barrington. You can have your own sea of blue at home!
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Well, I'm having a nice lazy day, today - a day off from 'sightseeing' which usually ends up as a marathon of trying to find somewhere to park. This part of Dorset / East Devon is absolutely packed - even though it's outside school holidays.
And the reason I'm having a lazy day - it's my birthday - so I get to choose what we do
A glass of bubbles and smoked salmon at lunchtime and a nice juicy steak on the BBQ tonight. Weather is glorious (most of the time!) What more could I ask for.
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Happy Birthday Richard! Enjoy your day off, you're in an area that has got very busy over recent years, it's our nearest bit of coast line so we know it well! 🥂🎂
(You might like the tropical shade of Abbotsbury Gardens with the dog if it gets too warm.
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Happy birthday Richard, sounds as if you had the day well sorted.
Good to hear that you are now back in home soil, WN. Hope the crossing was not too rough. please say high to David from us at your next CL.
Had the suture from my op taken out this lunchtime at home by a District Nurse, although it was a bit of a drag having to wait in all morning for her to turn up. Just appears as though I have scratched my face, so not spoilt my good looks!!😆
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Good to hear that you are now back in home soil, WN. Hope the crossing was not too rough. please say high to David from us at your next CL.
Hi Nellie. Crossing couldn't have been smoother if it was on a boating lake. We saw David earlier on but if we see him again before we depart on Thursday I'll certainly pass on your regards.
Edit - notice I deliberately avoided rising to the bait on facial matters!
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Interesting day yesterday,, contractors had sent letters to all houses in our road advising that they were going to reserface the road and c could all vehicles be moved by 0800 as usual some com plainer they had not received any notification,and numerous vehicles were still par ked in the road
Which were duly removed with the use of a suitably equipped vehicle and put on the grass verges
Today the work will be completes and yellow no parking lines replaced on all the corners of junctions
The rehab hospital have at last listened to me and I can now arrange for our chiropodist to attend to OHs feet which I have said wiil help her mobility and get her mobile again
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Reminds me of a picture I saw on one of the news feeds where there was a car parked on a road they were resurfacing and they had tarmac'd around it!!!!
Any news of when OH will be coming home? Just wondered if the Hip operation will make any difference to her general mobility in the way of an improvement?
David
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Happy birthday Richard, if a little late🥳
Brue, would love to see your garden photos, and good luck with the open day👍
Nellie, glad to hear your stitches are out, hope the getaway goes to plan. Good to have a mysterious scar or two, ask my OH.😁 All I have is gravel rash every time I fall off my bike🤣
JV, I do wonder sometimes at so called “care packages”. Foot care is nearly always forgotten, good for you for sorting things out👍
Nice day here, my garden is calling………..
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OH has a discharge date of the 20th of this month. ,but as I posted it has taken a long time for anybody to listen ,to me about OHs condition, and to agree that her chiropodist, should be allowed to attend as it is her painful right foot that is holding back her mobility ,,not the hip replacement as she has no pain in the hip
Tried last week to contact OHs chiropodist but is on leave. until tomorrow and the rehab chiropodist is on leave last week and this week
It has been in both hospitals, a battle with left and right hands at complete odds when it has come to OH and her treatment
As her carer they are supposed to advise me of what treatments she is having and as she as part of her neurology problems got short term memory loss ,is not sure what they are doing,
I only found out when asking what physio she was having did I find out her treatment is only three times a week. ,so for four days she and others are not getting anything (staff shortage again)as I have said, who knows her best . staff who see her some times or me
Sorry for the rant but the systems do not work in the NHS , when transferred to the rehab hospital none of her records came with her ,although when I said to the ambulance crew we had not got her records they expected them to be sent via the computer system but evidently that does not happen?
Ps it is because I as a carer am permitted to have access to both hospitals, at times not normally permitted ,I have observed how inconsistent the methods are when speaking to both consultants and ward staff
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