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What a day of weather. Started off damp and grey, then the sun came out for a while. After lunch we had the mother and father of a thunderstorm with hailstones, then the sun came out again and it was quite warm for a while. We have just had another downpour. We were given some garden vouchers by some very generous friends for Christmas and yesterday we had a lovely time in The Blue Diamond garden centre spending them. We did manage to plant all our plants between the downpours today.
Glad you had a good time at Buckden Towers Bakers. We went a few years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. Wonderful place.
Loveĺy photos again nellie.
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Thanks, B2, if we are not able to take Flyte around I doubt that we will be visiting, unfortunately, but one never knows what might happen in the future. However we would certainly take in the church if we are in the area. Thanks for the info all the same.
RK, your husband is definitely on the right track as it was a whisky still, now in the Angus Folk Museum.
Thanks, millie. We too have had very mixed weather today, mainly rain but have managed to fit in mainly dry walks so far. The THS has thinned out with units today, now down from over 50 to around 30, and I suspect a lot more could go tomorrow.
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We are home after an excellent3 night break at The Woods AS site near Stirling. Friday and Saturday the weather was great nice and warm so lots of time to sit out and enjoy the views yesterday it poured all day but we still managed to go a drive across to Fife and visit some nice seaside villages. Luckily this morning it was dry so we got packed up ok. Nice site for anyone in the area lovely views and a pub on site too that do excellent meals which is handy. Easy one and a half hour tow home today got van away and unpacked not away next weekend as we are going to a classic car show hopefully get away again for a couple of nights soon.
Hope everyone else has had a nice bank holiday weekend
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Heavy torrential rain most of the afternoon here at Melrose but luckily we arrived and we were set up just before it started but a glorious sunset now.
Most pitches took on a little water but the tarmac pitches are now surrounding a lake!
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David, Enjoy your stay at Putts Corner, and at Melrose Corners, hopefully the weather will improve for you both.
Glad to read that you had a pleasant time at The Woods, Francis, it is not a site that we have used.
It was a much better day overall today although we had periods when we couldn't see more than 100 m due to sea frets. Drove down the coast to Lunan Beach where we had a walk on the sands to Rickle Craig cliffs, where there were Fulmers and House Martins nesting on the crags. Stopped off to see Red Castle on the way back.
The photos are from today and of some of the residents of Balgavies Loch.
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[Well....that last post seems to have disappeared whilst I was editing it!!... so hear goes again.....]
Thanks Nellie.... We're only hear a few days. Weather has been a bit mixed... here mainly to visit our daughter who lives in Exeter and has currently broken her foot!! Weather has been a bit 'mixed'. We'll be down this way again in the summer, but have decided to try Exeter Racecourese for a few nights, before a longer stay at Hunter's,Moon.
For our 'Northern trip', we've booked Melrose (and Durham Grange) for a short stay on our way up to Stonehaven, in the summer, Corners. Both will be a 'new destination' for us. The flood looks a little worrying!! Staying at South Meadows (Private site near Belfort) and Bridlington on the way back.
Hope you enjoy your time away Nellie, Corners, and anyone else who is out and about.
David
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I think you'll enjoy Melrose, don't worry about the flooding. It was four hours of torrential rain and the gravel pitches took it well. In 24 years of coming here it's never been a problem.
Lovely sunny morning now.
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Well, that’s it, our three week tour of the West Wales Coast has come to an end. We’ve travel from Deeside to Anglesey, from The Llyn Peninsula to the headlands of Pembrokeshire. Seen so much nature, dolphins, choughs, Osprey, lizards, snakes, wildflowers galore and a wealth of insect life. To be honest I wasn’t expecting such rugged beauty and wild seas and the weather has been great for most of the time. It’s been a revelation and an experience I’d well recommend. Now on to Brecon and the final leg home.
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Your trip has sounded wonderful Micky. In addition to all that wildlife there is plenty of history to be found in the Principality, from ancient times through the Middle Ages to the Industrial history with the odd castle thrown in.
We've had an interesting few days. We found ourselves at a community hospital just before midnight on Sunday night as Mrs.WN had a B.P. reading that was considered dangerous. She regularly takes it along with one for her mother. Anyway she has, much to her chagrin, been allocated some B.P. meds and hopefully referred on to our surgery for further tests. I have no idea what she's had to be worried about these couple of years. Apart from a continuous headache (not me) she says she feels fine. So we'll see.
Shingle jabs tomorrow so we'll ask at surgery about follow up.
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We've had an interesting few days. We found ourselves at a community hospital just before midnight on Sunday night as Mrs.WN had a B.P. reading that was considered dangerous. She regularly takes it along with one for her mother. Anyway she has, much to her chagrin, been allocated some B.P. meds and hopefully referred on to our surgery for further tests. I have no idea what she's had to be worried about these couple of years. Apart from a continuous headache (not me) she says she feels fine. So we'll see. Shingle jabs tomorrow so we'll ask at surgery about follow up.
Sorry to hear that about your OH, WN, but hopefully the tablets will help to bring her BP back to normal and that the tests at the surgery help to find what the root cause of her headaches are.
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Good to read that you have had a grand Welsh tour, Micky. Enjoy your stay at Brecon, there's lots of interesting places to visit in the area.
Sorry to hear that you have had rather mixed weather, David, and that your daughter's foot does not take too long to heal.
We too have mixed weather today, with it starting off fine so we were able to get away in the dry. It was still fine when we arrived at our current destination but it soon started to rain, which was heavy at time. I did manage a couple of dry walks with Flyte during the afternoon and now we have a misty outlook and a red sky.
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Thanks Nellie. We've had a good couple of dsys.... off home tomortow. Glad to hear you'vechad a good 'welsh tour', mickysf. Fingers crossed that your OH will feel better soon, Wherenext.
At least the forecast tomorrow is 'cloudy' without rain. Hoping for a dry packbup morning. 🙂
David
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Sorry to hear your OH has had problems Wherenext, your family have certainly been through it medical wise in the last year or so.
I finally got my Dr appointment, after waiting 2 weeks and ringing up in between to check that I couldn’t see anyone sooner. There were only 3 people in the waiting room when I arrived 2 for the nurse and one before me for the Dr I saw. In the late afternoon just me, it was like the Marie Celeste in there. There used to be 2 waiting rooms, both usually full now only one empty one, but more Drs apparently. The Dr I saw was lovely, he actually listened and more importantly, I finally got someone to actually look at my problem, not just prescribe completely the wrong tablets over the phone without seeing me, (tablets now returned to the pharmacy) Then I found he was a trainee as he had to consult one of the Partners about my problem, so there must have been another Dr there, probably on the phone diagnosing patients. I think Covid caused all this remote business. Sadly he said he has to move on soon, hope he can come back as many Drs could learn a lot from him. Anyway 2 lots of medication and if no joy in 3 weeks he will refer me to a specialist, nothing life threatening but clearly, from Drs comments, urgent.
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This morning I had one of those melancholic and disturbing moments I’m sure many of us occasionally have which has remained with me all day. I woke up early this morning in the motorhome and decided to listen to BBC Sounds on my headphones prior to waking Mrs SF with a cup of tea. All was well.
However, the programme I had inadvertently ‘tuned’ into turned out to be about the Flixborough Disater which happened 50 years ago this coming Saturday. Sadly I remember that incident all too well losing friends in the ‘accident’.
Following the blast that fateful afternoon, which I had heard and felt at work, I drove home with fear and dread to find our village had been evacuated noticing several houses without roofs and windows on route. The policeman on duty allowed me to enter our house but only very briefly where I found a note from my parents explaining where they had gone and a telephone number to contact them.
The docudrama brought back those feelings of profound sadness and shock which I, and my community, experienced that awful day.
R.I.P. all those who lost their lives in this dreadful event.https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001znmw?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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Today started off fine and sunny here on the Fife coast, and we paid a visit to see my cousin and her husband, who live in Houston Texas but have a static caravan in her home town, where we had a very pleasant lunch. It was grand to catch up with them as it about 4 years since we last met. While we were there there was thunder, lightning and heavy rain, and the rain has been on and off all the rest of the day.
Hopefully it will be dryer tomorrow, as we have a round of washing to do before we head into our next THS, and will be without EHU for the time we are there.Have a safe journey home tomorrow, David.
Debs, pleased to read that you finally got to actually see a doctor, and hopefully the medication he prescribed will clear up your problems without you having to see a specialist.
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So sorry to hear this mickysf. It must have been a dreadful experience at the time and also for you to have been reminded of it all with the programme today. So difficult for you.
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Off to Carnon Downs this weekend for 5 nights followed by 4 nights at Veryan (CCC site). I didn’t realise they were so close together so will probably have to find a lay-by en route. Mid July we’re trying the new CCC site just outside Nottingham, an area we’ve never visited. The plan is to go from there to Harrogate (apparently only a couple of hours away), but this will have to remain fluid as my OH is expecting an important hospital appointment at some point.
A tragic tail micky, one I don’t recall. I’d like to think we’ve come a long way in the intervening years when it comes to H&S. Certainly when I was working, they were pretty hot on it.
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I remember it well, mickysf. I was a young PC at the time - but I was off duty - competing in a canoe slalom in Stone, in Staffordshire - and actually heard the explosion from there!! I remember saying to colleagues "What's that?" Obviously, I was involved in the aftermath when I got back to work and I recall that one of the things we found out was that there was more caprolactam stored in the centre of Hull than there had been at Flixborough - albeit that it was the cyclohexane, used to produce it that exploded.
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Yes, it wasn’t easy listening. However, although so very sad that the disaster was, I found the programme moving in positive ways and I’d recommend folk who were not directly affected, or remember the incident, to listen to it.
Those that lost their lives did not do so in vane and we, their families and friends, do remember them. Flixborough profoundly changed the health and safety agenda not only here in the UK but also across the World. That legacy lives on for all and every one of us.
Like so many in my community we did not believe that it was an accident, nor did the following inquests. Today working people are far safer in employment than ever before. Companies and industry have been rightly forced to change their ways, attitudes and practices towards their workers as a result. It still saddens me mind when folk flippantly use that derogatory phrase ‘H&S gone mad’ knowing that there really was no need at all for any to loose their lives that dreadful day.
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I’ve just been reading about it to refresh my memory, Micky. 28 people lost their lives and 36 were seriously injured. The subsequent enquiry identified several lessons to be learned.
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You are so right about H&S Micky. The term has been hijacked for excuses not to do things that most people wouldn't think twice about. No Conkers for example. H&S needs some good PR. Good that you found the programme cathartic.
We had our first shingles jabs yesterday and whilst at the surgery OH took the opportunity of asking for follow up on her emergency hospital visit. She quite quickly received an appointment for lunchtime and even had a follow up by a GP later in the afternoon. Her readings are coming down daily.
We both had reactions to the shingle jab, nothing serious but uncomfortable at the time.
Thank you DEBSC. You've not exactly been free from health scares yourselves plus the family. We just carry on as best we can as we can.
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I can recall Flixborough, we aren’t that far away as the crow flies. Terrible for all those involved, and as you say Micky, huge wake up call around H&S.
Different anniversary, but none the less life changing for many. 40 years since the Miners Strike. Lots of local events happening. Our niece is involved in gathering stories for our local Museum around recollections of how folks were affected, what they witnessed, how they coped, (or didn’t) at the time. We got married in the midst of it, so away from home at the time of Orgreave. I did have a couple of relatives who worked at local mines. You couldn’t move for police from all over the country at this time 40 years ago.
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Good to hear Mrs WN is responding well to meds, a bit of a scare for you all though🫣
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A very interesting listen to micky, such a sorry occurrence but one from which much good practice has developed. Living on the other side of the country we didn't know of anyone affected by it.
Good to hear that your OH 's BP is starting to return to normal, WN. Hope you both have a more comfortable night without any more adverse reactions to your shingles jabs.
Thankfully the weather was much better this morning, fine and sunny although rather windy. OH did another round of washing before we packed up and left the site. Arrived at THS just after noon and the first job after setting up was to get the washing out to dry. All was ready to take in dry by mid afternoon. Site is huge, with just 15 units on tonight and more caravans compared to M/Hs this time. Grand views from the van of both The Wallace Memorial and Stirling Castle.
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Well - no one seems to have told East Yorkshire about global warming! 1st June tomorrow and I've just lit the wood-burner!!! It's bitterly cold - half a gale blowing in from the sea and although it's just starting to brighten up now, the rain was lashing down first thing. Hope this weather improves before we go away again in 10 days time.
I'm now going to await the reports from everyone else, telling me they're basking in glorious sunshine
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Cant believe it is almost 2 weeks since we returned from our stay in Cornwall, our weather has been mixed with some glorious days and some not so glorious. We attended the fish and chips lunch in the wheelhouse on the beach provided by the Stroke club , F&C provided by local chippy and jolly fine it was came nicely presented in cardboard boxes and it was good and hot, and then we topped it off with trifle
done quite a bit of cycling but not ventured into the Solent, i didnt mind the Atlantic at 10 degs and nice and clear, but the Solent at 10 degs and it looks quite murky if the sea is rough due to a very sandy bottom.
Not sure what our plans are going forward, we have booked our usual September away in Tavistock and our Spanish daughter is coming home at the end of June for a few weeks and August never really appeals to us, far to busy.
Garden looking good, this is our beehive, does anybody know what shrub this is?, it has been in flower for almost 2 weeks now, the bees really love it , fortunately it is at the side of the garden well away from the patio area etc, so they can do whatever it is they do at their leisure.
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