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Lovely photos moulesy. Such gorgeous scenery. They have really cheered up a miserable day here.
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I'm thoroughly fed up with hearing the rain lashing against our windows...... There's often a chilly breeze to accompany it. Twas that bad this morning I had to add waterproof trousers under my long waterproof coat. Shorts have been sufficient until now, just the very bottom ocassionally got damp. My coat is still blowing, undercover outside, and not dry, although the shoulder protectors have dried..... I only toured the block, about 0.5 miles 🫣. Milliehull earlier has described it as it is.
Just hearing on the news rainfall in our area, ITV Anglia is 3 times usual September! Watching the forecast for more showers coming through including tomorrow, some green! Whilst it's still hammers against the window.
Still that said its nothing compared to international headlines 🥲🥲🥲
Drove back to Essex Sunday, quick tidy of my parents grave. Removal of the gerainiums, never been this early, something has had the tops from them - didnt know they appealled to wildlife! Luckily I'd taken a large pot of cyclamen.
Visit to my brother and sister in law - booked lunch out, won't be going there again! Not somewhere they'd tried but it looks good and had decent reviews. Cutlery was very odd, triangle knife handle not easy to use, certainly not to help to cut the roast potatoes.... When asked if everything OK, my brother mentioned the knife,oh she said we have steak knives, disappeared but never returned....... The food was very ready prepared......
We left each other at the carpark. We headed to the hospital to visit my last remaining blood aunt, who was also my Godmother. Just driving in the carpark brought back horrible memories. Really shocked at what I saw, only a few months since we'd seen her. Rang my brother to suggest a visit sooner than he planned. She passed peacefully late yesterday, Monday, afternoon. My brother did get there before that thankfully. She was proud she'd made the oldest of her family 89 years 7 months, others were close or just past 89.
So an odd time today.
Sorry to read the moulsey's have been poorly, but the photos look great.
DEBSC I'm glad you had a good day with plenty of laughs, you deserve it! I'm glad I worked in tge years I did. So many things have changed and most not for the better.
Good to read other folks news. I've given up liking posts as it blocks the latest activity page which often only loads 5 threads, and only 15 if you hit 'add more' and I getting lots more server errors 😡
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Fantastic photos, M.
Weather has been drab and drizzly here. Spent the day waiting for Amazon packages to arrive, late! So it’s been tidying out my bits and bobs boxes which constantly fill without my comprehension. I’m not a hoarder, honestly but I see future uses for all that accumulated ‘rubbish’ as Mrssf calls it.0 -
Splendid photos M, thanks for sharing them.
Well that's another year over, wonder just how many more we can continue touring as often as we do. I do feel sorry, honestly, for all those who have had extended periods of rain, but thankfully so far we have avoided most of it. Today was no exception as we had just a couple of very short light showers and some sunshine too. We took a trip across the Firth to Culross and enjoyed our walk through the town before lunch and around the Palace in the afternoon. Photos are of the Mercat Cross, Sir George Bruce, his tomb in the parish church and views around the house.
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We have one very untidy ‘rubbish’ drawer in the kitchen, I don’t think that I have ever done it out but might have to soon as it’s getting very difficult to close. My kids are always shocked that it’s such a mess, I try to explain that I need to have just one very messy place out of view in an otherwise very tidy house. They think that’s weird, but I think we all have our idiosyncrasies, or is it just me.
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The rain has just reinforced the fact that we have a problem with one of our gutters. Thought I would try a Trusted Traders guy. Was a bit surprised when he said he would be here around 7.00pm, dark I thought! Thinking this would only be an inspection how wrong could I be. Out with his ladder and cleared out all the muck. It wasn't that long ago that we had the guttering replaced but one thing he pointed out was that the previous fitters had put a screw through the down pipe and it was this that much was getting trapped on. He has fitted a domed strainer which should prevent it being blocked in future. His visit was very reasonable, I was fearing much worse. Also booked a plumber to change one of our bathroom taps in about 10 days time.
Nellie I thought you were out all year? Like to see your last post of the day before going to watch Newsnight.
David
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No DEBSC - it's not just you - we've got one, exactly the same - christened 'The Man Drawer"!! It's full of all sorts of bits and pieces - not sure what, exactly - but I know they'll come in useful, one day. Trouble is, I've got a garage and a study, exactly the same.
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Well my adventures in Cornwall are no way as exciting as some of you lot, but nevertheless we had a great month and i have to say apart from the last week which was a bit dodgy we had some really good weather which enabled me to do lots of sea swimming or just loafing about in my deck chair. In the main most places we visited were very quiet, my favourite beach is Crantock which was just 20 mins from the site, but i did enjoy swimming with couple of seals off of Godrevy beach. The photo was taken on our last Saturday at Perranporth, it did rain very hard but fortunately we were in the carpark on top of the rocks.
We came home Sunday, nearly delayed for a day as it was very windy but decided to go for it, the caravan did dance about a little bit, but these old coachmans are built like tanks compared to some you can buy today, so made it home ok, got a bit of water ingress round the front which might have been due to the ferocious rain but need to get it checked out.
Well the old girl is now parked up on the hardstanding and doubt she will move much before Mar/Apr next year, pity really, we used to be away all year round but OH not really fit enough now to endure freezing cold nights in a caravan.
Now down to the nitty gritty, grass needs cutting, had a gardener in to do the heavy /high pruning and he did cut the grass just the once so it is not too bad/.
good luck to all, sorry some have had some not so pleasant times, but my old Dad used to say "there is always another day"
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Oh, and I thought it was just me! I am reassured to know I’m not alone in this behaviour. My drawer’s contents has now been reduced and rationalised, in other words some of its contents have now been placed in another box in the garage but some items were disposed of. One day I’ll tidy out that box in the garage which is now reaching almost capacity.
Strangely I also have a shelf in the motorhome which, for me, performs pretty much the same function.
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OH has a large shed and he has more stuff in there some of it I do not know what it is used for as he is a Squirrel haha with different things and yesterday we went to our bin area and there was a old shopping bag next to the bins full of electrial stuff in for folks to help themselves to well he did and had a good sort out back in his shed some useful some not.
Weather not sure what to do some sun and then clouds a lot cooler than yesterday as well.
OH had his blood tests results this morning looking ok except blood sugar has gone up a bit I think lettuce leaves for a few weeks ha ha no doubt the doctor will comment next week.
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I’ve had to remove all the bird feeders from the feeding station as this year we are plagued with squirrels which are destroying all the feeders. I have a large caged feeder with 3 feeders inside hanging on the apple tree, problem is the birds don’t like it. Anyway I was busy in the kitchen today so I put them all back, but leaving the kitchen to do some jobs upstairs I left OH in charge of squirrel watch. I returned to find him watching Bargain Hunt, I started to moan when he showed me that he had turned the security camera slightly and was watching on his iPad. Now something useful from his tech mode.
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DK, the reason that most of my posts on this section are towards the end of the day, for me at least, is that I leave CT until I have gone through all my other tabs once I sit down of an evening, and then I start at the top working my way through all that have been posted earlier in the day. We will continue to tour throughout the year, and have already booked a site for X-mas week. Now looking where we will head to after this trip and into November.
It started off cloudy this morning but the sun eventually came out. Today, after doing a round of washing, we visited Kinneil Estate and found a new walk, following the Pony Trail. After lunch we did a short walk in the Nature Reserve before heading into Bo'ness to pick up some provisions, and by the time we returned to site the washing was just about dry. There is a large turnaround of units on this site with lots of hired PVCs (mainly) stopping for just a single night, but it does mean that most of the 23, or so, pitches are taken each day.
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Slowly making progress in transferring my Madeira photos onto the tablet! A few village ones here - the traditional "A" shaped houses in Santana are pretty much just a tourist attraction now, I think just a couple are actually still lived in. (The 2 Dutch ladies in the photo apologised profusely for not moving out of frame, and by the time they did a coach load of French had arrived!)
Just along the coast from our hotel was the little fishing village of Camara de Lobos, main claim to fame apparently that Winston Churchill stayed there and painted several pictures of the place (so now there's a Churchill hotel, Churchill restaurant etc etc ...). Many of the streets were decorated for a festival, apparently they have one every fortnight or so! We caught the local bus there and then walked back to Funchal, a very pleasant hour and a half stroll along the coast.
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Medical matters for us now - this afternoon I have to take Mrs M to have a couple of teeth removed. Next week it's flu jabs for us both and my annual eye test and the week after we're both booked in for Covid jabs. Good to get everything out of the way quickly!
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It’s been a really cracking day walking about 10K and ending up at our local craft brewery for a swift pint. Now sitting at home looking out at a beautiful sunset with bats flitting about in the half light. Let’s hope for Māori of the same this weekend.
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Loved the photo of the Churchill statue, M, as well as the rest too. Hope Mrs M didn't suffer too much at the dentist.
We woke to quite thick mist, as forecast, but it eventually burnt off and the rest of the day has been fine with short periods of sunshine. We had a morning walk from the Avon Aquaduct (the second longest in the British Isles at 250m length) around Muiravonside Country Park and then, after lunch, another along part of the Union Canal. This our last night here before we start on the slow meander homeward.
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Kj - We are now installed, in splendid isolation, on our usual CL in North Wales
Haven't been on since Monday so only just catching up with news. How long are you here for Kj? At least the weather has been better since Tuesday.
We've been rather busy. After the deluge at the weekend I found my favourite "every" day shoes had sprung a leak so a hasty trip to Go Outdoors for a replacement pair, not being one with a shoe fetish I tend to only have 2 pairs of every day shoes!
Flu jabs, blood tests, gardening, wasp infestation, Campervan cleaning, a meeting with some friends, acting as taxi for MiL who also decided she wanted new shoes, but only after we'd been and got mine! Taxi tomorrow as she has a covid jab.
Need to move some investments that are due and move our energy supplier as well.
Condolences on the death of your Aunt B2.
Apologies if I've missed anything else of importance but I'm trying to finish this and keep an eye on a Coq-au-Vin that's in the oven slowly cooking away.
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After a dry start it began to rain just as we were in the process of leaving the Beecraigs site. It continued to rain as we circuited Edinburgh but thankfully stopped before we got to our present site, so we set up in the dry. Have had the odd very short shower this afternoon but have been able to fit in 3 dry walks so far. The photos, below, are of a couple of trees exhibiting fine autumn colours, that we saw on our walk yesterday, one with the view from our caravan and the other from my afternoon walk. Where are we?
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We leave here on Monday WN, and head north to CCC Kendal. The weather has indeed been not bad since Tuesday, thankfully, it next week it looks to be rather mixed.
My friend is booked in for his heart op in Liverpool on Tuesday, but has to go in on Sunday as they want to do some additional pre op tests, so we are spending most days with him.
His daughter arrived from Cardiff yesterday as it was her younger daughter’s 1st birthday today , so today we went to the birthday party. With a 1 year old and a nearly 4 year old, it was quite lively!
Tomorrow, as he now has “supervision”, we plan a trip to see the Anderton boat lift, then we will see him again before he goes off to Liverpool on Sunday.
We left OH’s car with DD in case she needed it, just as well as her old car has had another flat tyre, and today the battery has failed. Good thing she has a new car on order, though it seems it will not arrive until late December now.
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Both had our jabs - yesterday afternoon at the pharmacy for Covid and first thing this morning at the surgery for the 'flu one - so that's us sorted for another year
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Had Covid and Flu both together at the pharmacy yesterday, have felt wretched all day, same syptoms as last time i had covid jab, body aches all over got the shakes, be ok tomorrow.
Been a glorious day so i did manage to sit in the garden and soak up some sunshine for some of the time, just taken 3 x paracetomol feeling worlds better
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Booked the GPs for offered flu jab, no mention of Covid. Booked Covid one with the NHS offered for next week. Arrived at Drs to be asked if we wanted Covid jab as well, thought that would be easier so agreed and now just cancelled NHS appointment, think there will be many cancellations as people before and after us in queue said the same. Maybe surgery should have been more organised. Arm now painful, hope we don’t feel like Rufs tomorrow.
Our granddaughter is back in hospital again they are trying to get fluids into her and have told her she will be in for at least a few days. Her sister planned a visit to stay local to her for the weekend so fortunately is there at present for visiting.
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Spot on, Kjell. It is our first visit to it and very impressed, with lots of space between units and patches of grass without pitches, an excellent dog walk with a free run area, "free" wifi that works well, and a great view from most of the pitches.
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