What are you all up to
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Yes, Gill, that's right! There used to be a notice inside the box saying just that, but some scallywag has nicked it so now you have to trust to the village notice board!
As for the second claim to fame, you might just be able to make it out inscribed on one of the glass doors.
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What's the date of your stay up at Dunnett Bay? We'll be up near there from next Saturday for 5 nights. However I guess that you'll be up and down in a couple of weeks and so cross our path somewhere as we're out for another 6 weeks yet.
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We had a bit of rain overnight but not enough to soak the ground, and a couple of showers in the late afternoon, the rest of the day being a bit cloudy and misty but dry fortunately. Sky seems to be breaking up so hopefully tomorrow will be a bit brighter.
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Been very grey and warm here but cleared to a beautiful evening here.
Once son left about noon, another flying visit 😲 his team won charity golf tournamet, he won individual as well but not nearest the pin this year. I went into the garden and pulled out some of the forget me nots to make way for some summer bedding don't do much. Ground dry about an inch or two down and very hard - poor plants, I did put the hosepipe on them for an hour or so. Also had a tidy up of our lilac which seemed to be dying back in places and most of this year's flower was high up, I need the height for the summer but will shortened drastically in the autumn.
Because the sky cleared about 5pm after a shower and tart up we decided to visit the church where my aunts ashes were recently interred and see her plaque (we know how to spend Saturday evenings 😉 actually friends who were coming over this evening cancelled this morning due to illness). Beautifully kept churchyard it's only the first village out of town northwards but I've not visited since a cousins wedding in 1984. Since we'd nothing planned for dinner we decided on fish and chips but by the time we got them 7.30 ish it was too cold to sit on the green in the village to eat them 😢. So it was back home with them. Would have knitted but hands too rough 😲😲.
Hoping to get down to a Titanic exhibition which includes a replica of the Marconi radio room. It's been open a month and I still haven't managed it.
Did try to have a catch up on here with a cuppa this afternoon but found a sign saying maintained. So that's an improvement but didn't see any advance warning. Did wonder whether they'd been hacked 😲😲
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9th to 11th June, NTH.
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I got my rota for next week from work last night. Three consecutive days off: today, tomorrow and Tuesday then back to work Wednesday evening. So we're trying to think of ideas for days out but we do need some nice weather. It was dull, grey and raining when I first woke up this morning but now there are patches of blue sky so we could get lucky!
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A very nice sunny morning here in the Loire valley, close to Blois. Although I think a few showers are expected later. The site we are on in a wood, is very ecologically run, solar heating for the water, bug hotels for the bugs and lots of other wildlife. However, it does not stop the locals blasting away in the forests around. As it's Sunday we can hear a fair bit of shotgun fire. Perhaps a walk later, then a dip in the nicely heated swimming pool, which is large and often empty as the site is very quiet. We had what must have been several inches of rain in a Thunderstorm the other night. The ground was awash but drained away very quickly as we are on river gravels and sand, under the thin layer of grass.
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Thanks moulesy. I hope you have a good time as well. We are hoping we can get our awning up in the dry this afternoon. Not looking forward to it as it is completely different to the old one.
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Good luck with your awning milliehull I'd forgotten you have a new one. How exciting 😉. What's the advice given to newcomers? Take it slowly, ask for help and remember your sense of humour 😆. If our weather comes straight up you may want to hang fire for dry weather, very April this morning.
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Awoke to angry looking sky thought it was early - but 0745 😯. Sudden HEAVY shower which didn't last long. Ground nicely damp but obviously not had much cos water butts have very little extra in them 😔.
Have a good time all of those who are away. 5 more sleeps for us 😆.
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Glorious now.
Did a load of dark washing first thing and pegged out once rain had gone. Someone, it wasn't me and there's only 2 of us, left tissue in a pocket 😲😯😲😯😲. Good job I wash stuff inside out, nice white fuzz over things!
Went to the Titanic exhibition with replica Marconi wirelessroom. Very good. Sadly the birth place of radio/wireless doesn't have a dedicated place to display it so it's in a disused shop slightly off the beaten track for shoppers nevertheless several visitors in the couple of hours we were there. £4 adults children free so certainly not expensive. Last year they had an exhibition in the original wireless factory (which I missed 😔) but sadly that's been developed into housing and although the ground floor, where it was, remains empty it wasn't possible this time.
If you're visiting Essex in the near future it's worth a look. Sadly there is little to commentate the industries which made the prosperity of our city 😔.
We sat in the sun and had lunch out at Nandos very nice it was too. Home for a cuppa sit in the garden and catch up on here. Conservatory was 37c as I didn't do the roof blinds before we went out 😲
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Heavy overnight rains ,now hot and sunny ,but windy from the South West.Just had Sunday lunch at the "Black Horse " Monks Horton ,Mmmm,Relaxing in the 'van' now .Leaving tomorrow morning though.The site "Black Horse Farm" has had a VERY busy week=end.2 -
Yes we have been thanks Brue. Seems a shame that the town/city that used to proudly bear 'birth place of radio' on it town signs now doesn't. It's been ommited in favour of a house picture ( very nice picture it is too). But doesn't really have any proper tribute (there are bits in the museum on display and a museum that opens monthly I think) any proper tribute to the companies that made it prosperous not just Marconi. The exhibition. all the boards definitely, were hired from Scotland and some loaned items from locals. A very detailed account of events and photos of the Marconi wireless operators. Marconi was on there as a commercial enterprise, that came as a surprise to me.
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We are just home from a lovely weekend at Maragowan CC in Killin. The weather yesterday wasnt bad so I went a nice cycle down to Strathayre which was great the views there are amazing also I mostly managed to dodge the rain. On Friday night we went across to the pub near the site for a meal and stayed for the live music which was excellent. Had a nice drive home today and weather here is nce so we are now going to sit oit in the summer house with a drink. Hope everyone else had a nice weekend too
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We've moved on from Drake House Farm CL near Clitheroe to Wood Nook, a commercial site near Grassington. We decided to move on a day early having seen Monday's weather forecast!
This is a very nice, quiet site with very friendly owners but you certainly notice how hemmed in you feel compared to a CL.
We walked up the (very, very long) hill from the site up towards Mastiles Lane after lunch - great views and nice to see so many lapwings soaring above the fields, though, sadly, not nearly as many as when we lived up this way almost 30 years ago now.
My turn to cook tonight, then battening down the hatches ready for tomorrow's "welcome" rain (Thank you very much, Madame Kirkwood!)
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Really pleased you are having a good trip Moulsey, I have been reading your posts, Lancashire is not an area we have been to really, tend to go past it on the M6. Thinking it would be a good area to combine with a visit to our son in Manchester.
I know what you mean about feeling hemmed in on a commercial site or club site after a CL too.
We stayed at a fab CL in Wales, loads of room,fantastic view, then moved on to Lady Margarets Park. 
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Just back from spending a lovely day out at Stanwick Lakes, near Rushden, weather was great, lots of wildlife so see. We did several of the walks, and had lunch at the visitor centre, sitting out looking over the lake.
Feeling a bit tired now, only the dog has any energy left. 0
)and trimmed hedges so brown bin now half full ready for pick up not paying £35 a year for them to not have something to empty
