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It was the diffuser, KjellNN, which they replaced last time. That was in November 2016. It was the same problem. Water kept dripping from the air distributor on to our carpet until it finally stopped working with the red light continuously on.
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Glad you feel a bit better today Helen. It must have shaken both you and your son. Such a terrible thing to happen. All those poor parents.
Your trip sounds wonderful Goldie.
Our hairdresser is coming this morning and then I think I will be ironing for the rest of the day after looking at the pile in the ironing basket.
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I finished the last delivery at 21:30 last night after which the manager let me go home earlier. Today I'm on from 18:00 to 22:00. My last shift before the start of the holiday.
We plan to leave Worthing at about 11 a.m. tomorrow and head towards Sandringham for the National to arrive day after tomorrow in time for the opening.
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Pleased to hear Goldie had another enjoyable visit to Englethwaite, we like it there too, lovely to do nothing, which I am doing too just now.
Helen, you must all have had a horrible shock, so difficult for everyone.
Might take another little boat trip soon, not much effort required, just an amble through pretty Hope Park. Very humid here.
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I've just had the final 3 nights of my "Scottish Tour" on the lovely Englethwaite Hall Site, always use it to 'wind down' after the A/M74 !!. The only problem is the great round-the-houses-detour to avoid United Utilities 12 weeks of road works. Fortunately the Warden has put a good sign out where it is needed to turn us off the detour back onto the usual approach road. -- Even the Wardens {including Zorro Cat} gave me a good friendly welcome
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Today's walk was a bit of a toughie for the old men in the party ( the young ladies coped magnificently though!
).We started at Tideswell, where the church is known as the Cathedral of the Peaks, and walked through 4 of the Derbyshire Dales, so plenty of steep ups and downs. We walked through Tidewell Dale down to Litton Mill. Then through Miller's Dale. By a very pretty stretch by the River Wye to Cressbrook Mill. The first time we did this walk, some 40 years ago, the mill was pretty much derelict; now it is made up of highly sought after apartments! Then two steep climbs through Cressbrook Dale and then Tansley Dale Bach to Tideswell.
Getting the dogs over all the stiles is getting to be quite a performance now that Harry's not as agile as he once was. Mrs M goes over first then I have to cajole him up the steps and over ( a gentle push up the backside usually does the trick! Meanwhile Lady waits to be lifted over - nothing too strenuous for her.
The pictures show Tideswell church and the view down Cressbrook Dale from the highest point of the walk. Mrs M thought something was missing from the view - I'm not so sure!
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Lovely photos M. We will be doing a bit of up and down walking over the next few days. We moved today from Bayeux to a small campsite 30 miles or so west of St Malo. It is near to the coast, hence the up and down nature of the walking. Not seen the sea yet though, sunny inland but foggy close to the coast. However, more sun forcast for tomorrow.
Almost made a mess of leaving Bayeux Those TGV trains are a pain. They put a line through and the tunnels underneath are only 2.5 m high. Luckily the OH noticed the sign hidden to me on my side of the car. So the amount of reversing and disruption to the other traffic was minimised.
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One nice thing about this site, as our satellite dome is broken, yet again, is that we can pull in The BBC from the Channel Islands transmitter. They don't seem to get many programmes for there license fee though, unless we are to far away to get everything. There is just BBC 1 / 2 / 4. BBC News / Parliament and CBBC. No independent channels at all.
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They get the same as us Steve including local news. You must be just out of transmission reach.
Had another Derwentwater launch trip, got soaked from the bow wave spray from another boat. Several of us got off completely drenched! Another nice walk on the Cumbria way, looked up at the ant like stream of walkers on Cat bells, glad to be in woodland shade and eat a nice lunch at newly opened Lingholme Gardens.
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Brue - a nice walk is up to Latrig, across the fell and then double back lower down and back through Brundholme Wood.
Good part is that you get all the uphill part out of the way at the beginning.
p.s. We also went to Lingholme Gardens for a cup of tea after walking around the lake. Very nice and will be even nicer when the walled garden gets more established.
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We have decided to cut out one of our planned stops in Germany on the way north and instead stay on here until Tuesday next week. OH's treatment has taken quite a bit of time off our sightseeing, so we thought we might as well stay longer, plus today, after she had her third treatment the doc said to take the pills she has meantime and could she return for one more treatment on Monday?
Tomorrow is Ascension Day, a holiday here, then the surgery is closed on Friday so the staff can have a long weekend, so he was anxious to ensure her treatment was working OK.
Weather is good, site is nice, we have the time, so why not!
This afternoon we took a drive up on one of the mountain roads above the lake,great views, even though it was a little hazy in the distance.
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I am envious of you walkers.
Up until 5 or 6 years ago I loved walking. As the arthritis in my spine and hips has worsened these last few years I can no longer do long walks and particularly on uneven ground. We went a walk last weekend with a friend of mine who is worse than me .... but no quitter. I am only 64 and he is 65. We parked up on the National trust car park near to The Cottage Loaf at Thurstaston. Walked up over the rough sandstone steps etc up to the trig point and on to Roydon Park and back after a well earned cuppa and cake. Normally he is doing well to make over 1.5 miles an hour. I suspect that the 1.5 miles to the park over rough ground with stops to take in the vista took two hours. Coming back we used a more level route. When I phoned him yesterday I said how glad I was that we had done that particular walk as there is every chance that neither of us would be able to complete it next year.
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Treatment is free, drugs cost a little. You are entitled to the same treatment as the locals. You show your EHIC and passport.
In Germany it seems all prescription items are 5 euros.
When she was seen at the hospital A+E the drugs were free.
In Austria there was a 2 euro admin charge , free treatment, and drugs are very reasonably priced.. About 14 euros for the 4 "infusions", which we had to obtain from the pharmacy with a prescription, and the doctor handed out the Omeprazol capsules free.
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Great photos moulesy. I looks as though you are all having a wonderful time. Great weather too. Harry and Lady look as though they are enjoying themselves as well.
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Had to give your suggested walk a miss Ian, wanted to try it but our elderly digs are only up to low level shady walks Much the same as their owners!. In the tropic of Keswick just now it is too hot to do anything, we are taking it in turns to walk to town so the dogs can stay in the shade...market day here, very busy.
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Very warm here in Northern Brittany as well, but with a cooling breeze. Just back from a very nice walk along the coast path to Binic, which, as it is a public holiday here in France, is full of stalls selling every manner of food, from snails to lobsters, craft stalls, wine / cider stalls and fairground type rides for the kids. It was about 3 miles there but went up and down 50 metres or so about six times. Although on the coast there was quite a bit of tree cover which helped shade us.
However, we cheated a bit on the way back making use of the huge tidal range in this part of the world plus the fact it was low tide, and used the fore shore to miss 5 of the bumps.
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Just back from six nights on our favorite local CL. Watched the barn owls, hares, deafened by the skylarks! Fox visited the site for most nights has poorly back right leg. Usual horses and other wildlife. Weather FABULOUS. Just catching up on here first load of washing out second lot in. Sitting in the shade 😆.
Good to hear most who are away are having a good time. Hopefully KjellNN things are about to get more restful?
Relieved to find the large fuchsias I bought for a friend for her birthday on Monday survived. I put them in the conservatory to encourage extra buds before we went away. Put them in washing up bowls but forgot to top up the water levels 😲😲😘, remembered yesterday! Temperature when we opened up 44.9c that's with all the blinds pulled over 😲😲😲. Boy have they put on some growth and buds - just what I wanted but I fear too big for the cellophane bags I bought to wrap them in! I even bought flower colour matching large bows to finish the gift wrapping off. Not sure how they'll look on a back bin bags 😉😉😉
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It's been a real scorcher here today as well! We drove up to the RSPB car park at Curbar Gap and walked along Calver and Frogatt edges. We had intended to make it a circular walk and come back along the river but the heat was just too much for Harry so we ended up walking back the way we'd come - it's a great walk in either direction with spectacular views. Near the start is a Ring Ouzel nesting site - the young have all fledged now but we were lucky enough to spot a couple of adult birds on the way.
Finishing the walk early also meant we had some time on our hands so we decided to go back to The Packhorse at Little Longstone for lunch - no great hardship that!
While we were there we got a text with the good news that our nephew and his wife had just had their second baby, a little girl to be called April. She was tiny - just 5 pounds - not due until June 9th, so I guess election fever just got too much for mum!
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Lovely day here, hot in the sun but lovely in the shade. Sitting outside the van with beer and wine, catching up on e mails.
This morning We drove south into Slovenia for a little look, then west to Tarvisio in Italy where we had some pizza for lunch, and a look around the bewildering leather market, then back north into Austria.
Much more like a holiday than of late!
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When we stayed at Karanjska Gora in Slovenia last year we hired bikes and cycled to Tarvisio, Kjell. It's a quaint little place - the cycle path went through the old station. I seem to remember a nice area around the church which had plaques commemorating a massacre there during the war, though my Italian wasn't quite up to translating them!
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Forgot to add hearing the cuckoo every day from morn til night and the swallows and swifts.
I think our resident back bird is pleased were home as it has sung continually all afternoon. 😆 and our rambling rector is starting a magnificent show in the uninteresting tree.
I love his time of year, everything's so bit earlier than usual bit I'm hard pressed to think of anything more beautiful than an English spring and early summer.
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A hot day at CAB today. We had the windows all open, but still rather warm and sticky.
Had a walk around town at lunchtime. There were a couple of armed policemen with rather hefty looking machine pistols under their arms
Met up with Mrs H because she'd forgotten the Nectar card needed for a special offer on fuel (£0.12/litre off
) then back to it.Got home and ordered a new sat nav (seperate post) then fitted a new starter cord to the lawn-mower as it snapped the other day (only about 20 years old.....nothing lasts these days!
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Glad you enjoyed your few days away Bakers2. You sound as though you have had a good few days as well Kj. Poor Harry moulesy, I know how he feels.
We are off down to Kent tomorrow for my Aunt's funeral. I think it will be a long hot journey (hooray for air con
) But I am looking forward to seeing the rest of the family. A sad occasion but we have decided to celebrate her long and happy life. She was 89.1 -
Safe journey tomorrow milliehull. We have a funeral in Leicester on Tuesday, hubby's aunt by marriage she was 102 and still full of life up until a few weeks ago, we too celebrating her life. These days with scattered families and various commitments it's lovely to have a get together 😔. There is just one brother left on hubby mum's side but he's the baby only mid 80's 😉.
Mum's sister had a fall and fractured something in her hip mother thinks! She's 82 mum's youngest sibling.
Put our motorhome back in storage and surprised to find the electronic gate closed during office hours and new intercom 😲😲. Huge storage place which has all sorts stored 😲. Chatting with staff 'people' were trying to get in with their vehicles 😉 and staff thwarted an attempt to steal one from an internal compound. It's a gold standard site. In view of this and our extended trips to NZ we have decided not to change storage location. Our current site has loads of security including loose dogs at night. We've decided it's worth the extra money!
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