What are you all up to
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Our fridge is a large Thetford, but also gets distressed by low voltage and switches itself off and flashes to us. Only done it on one site, CAMC Crossways, we switched over to gas for a while.
I measured the voltage, it was down to just over 180, it was early evening and most people would have been making dinner. Reported it to warden who seemed surprised, nobody else had reported a problem.
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We seem to have survived the storm intact, though I have not been up in the garden to check all the trees. Quite a bit of debris on the roads, mostly twigs and leaves, but did see one large branch that had broken off a tree at the crossroads in the village. It was aimless on the pavement and the wall of the house garden, only hanging into the gutter. There are traffic lights there, hope there was nobody waiting to cross. Was all gone by the time we came home a few hours later.
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@Goldie146 it looks very like one of our favourite sites, Yellowcraig. Suspect the cycling will be good that far down as well, we cycled all over further North. That must have seemed a lovely long break for you.
It’s a rather lovely day here, so a dip is in order, then more gardening. Enjoying a full day at home.
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Great seeing everyone’s pics nice to see those out and about. We won’t be away again for a few weeks possibly the end of the month as we have a lot on at the moment. We stopped at the clubs Knaersborough site on our recent trip away and noticed it wasn’t very busy considering it was July although having said that we did try to get in to our local haunt Ayr Craigie last weekend and they were showing as being full
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All of us decamped to a Garden Centre this morning, one with stylish clothes of course.😂 We spent a good amount of time there and bought some plants of course. OH wanted to get a little something for the new neighbours who look like they might finally move in soon so that was one box ticked.
Quite warm down in Chester.
Back home to hard labour in the garden for a couple of hours then a quick trip to town to pick up meds. Dinner is in the oven and cold beers in the fridge. Feel like we need a drink tonight (it has got a "y" in the day hasn't it?).
Lets hope both yourselves and the site are still open for business @Goldie146.😀
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Great news on your hip replacement heddlo! Hope it goes well.
OH is struggling with her knee problems, not so much the pain, which is minimal meantime, but the stiffness, and that the left knee is now pretty useless when it comes to stairs, certainly at home.
With the waiting times up here, it seems it could be 2.5 years before she may be eligible for any replacement surgery.
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Not a bad day here in Northumberland... sunny, so thought we would have a little time on the beach. Drove down to Beadnell, but the car park was full, so drove up to Bambough, to a little car park which is 'less well known' (??) and managed to get the last parking space...
David
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We have noticed how quiet most places have been during our travels, with the only busy places being the NT''s Bodnent Gardens and Attingham carparks. There were quite a lot of tents on the commercial site adjacent to the last THS we were on but the site was not rammed and there was lots of parking down by the shore.
We had an easy tow the motorways to our current site, where we are the only unit on it tonight, although more are due to arrive during the next few days. Managed to get a round of washing done and out on the drier by 13:15, and all nicely dried by late afternoon. Out for an Indian meal tomorrow with daughter and SIL to celebrate their birthdays. We did receive the sad new that inevitably neighbours has died, rather unexpectedly. Although he had been poorly for a short while this came as quite a surprise.
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I struggled posting on here yesterday, because of poor wifi connection, so was unable to post any photos. So here are a couple from our walks. Looking towards the headland at the west end of Penryn Bay.
The ruins of Llys Euryn, a medieval house once owned by Ednyfed Fychan, of one of the ancestor of Owen Tudor.
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It's quite busy here in Northumberland @nelliethehooker. Car parks full - difficult to park.... South Meadows site is also quite busy.... with just one or two spare pitches. We were fairly late booking but could only get 6 nights when we wanted 7, and we adjusted our dates slightly. However, when we were in Cornwall earlier (before the schools broke up), I got the impression that the site we were on (Globe Vale) were not as booked out as usual for the summer. It sounds a bit 'variable'...
David
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Glad you seem to have the internet sorted @nelliethehooker - thanks for the photos.
Our last day in Northumberland today - just had to be a visit to Holy Island and Lindesfarne Priory.....
.... Oh, and we just had to visit here..... 🤣🤣
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One of those days today. Got up earlier than usual as our Van paint man due back "first thing Thursday morning". Still waiting at 10.30 when my patience ran out. 2 voicemails later I went to Tesco where I received a reply. I won't repeat the conversation but he turned up at home by the time I returned.
4 hours later we still had a problem. He couldn't match the colour to the adjacent panel. He did clear up the mess he'd made of the bricks on the drive and also of the residue he'd left on a window. So I'll be getting in touch with the dealers but after we return from a break we're having next week.
MiLs hairdresser then turned up just as I was starting to prepare dinner. We then received an invoice from one of the carer companies we use for something from April. We have no idea what it relates to.🤷♀️
Just one of those days after one of those weeks.
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Very timely, David, as there’s an old episode of Vera on TV at the moment 😀
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Lovely photos @DSB. We love it up there. We took MiL a few years ago, it was the first time she'd been to Northumberland and we would probably have gone back last year if it hadn't of been for her Stroke. She loved it, as we do.
You seem to have enjoyed it as well.
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We returned home from the caravan as we had appointments, now even more added. Hygienist this morning, my usual one has left so I was apprehensive about the new one but she was fine. Eight injections of numbing stuff just on one side, still numb 6 hours later. Tomorrow first thing I have a punch biopsy on my scalp at the dermatologist, she thinks my autoimmune system is attacking my scalp. I’ve been waiting 18 months for this. Then to the Drs for an injection in the afternoon. Dentist check up for us both next week. OH had two moles removed from his back at dermatologist last Sunday, he’s got a great many stitches. He’s got a routine scan next week and then GP is now sending him for an X-ray for his hip pain. This getting old lark is not much fun. But better than the alternative.
@Bakers2 you were fortunate to get an appointment for your smart meter so quickly. Ours stopped working in January I do use it to check what I’m using, and it’s very difficult to read the meter where it’s placed in the garage, so it is useful. Each month, like clockwork we received an email saying they were ‘looking into it’. Then when we said we were going to the Ombudsman they sent an email saying they were coming to repair it on Saturday. Now they have said someone wrote the date for repair wrongly and it will be on the 9/9th. We said this wasn’t a suitable date, so now they’ve said
dates can’t be booked more than 30 days ahead and they’ll get back to us. You couldn’t make it up.
Enjoying seeing everyone’s holiday photos. Some interesting places.0 -
Wonderful photos from lots of posters showing places we've not seen or want to return to if we get the chance.
@DEBSC our electricity meter isn't working at all in measuring units used. I think that's why someone is coming out next week. It was a 'smart' meter and worked as such up until last month. I can tell them the time and date i read it ,and that is the reading still showing
Luckily we dont export any energy!
Our gas meter failed before we'd been here a year. It took months to get another meter. Meanwhile our bills were estimated on the previous 40 year old boiler which we replaced 4 months after moving. I assumed the smart meter was doing its job 🤐
@Wherenext and so the van saga continues 😡. Enjoy your days away.
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Beautiful photos, @DSB hope you have a safe tow home tomorrow.
Sorry to read that the saga of the paint job continues @Wherenext, hope you get more joy from the dealers when you contact them this time around than you have in the past. Have a less stressful time away on your trip next week.
@DEBSC you are certainly having a busy time with all your appointments, and we thought that we had a lot after each trip, but nowhere as many as yourselves.
A quiet, dull day for us after rain again through the night. The usual rounds of walks with Flyte before heading out early this evening for an Indian meal with daughter and SIL. Not long got back to the van after a very enjoyable meal and it wad good to catch up with all their latest news.
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I know just what you mean. Unreliable people, mystery bills for something, and just general mayhem. Hope you get everything sorted.
@DSB so enjoyed your tour photos, you have been to plenty of our favourite places, and Holy Island was one of the last places we enjoyed taking Mum, she loved it. If you haven’t discovered them yet, and enjoy detective fiction, try the LJ Ross series of books (DCI Ryan). They are all set around Northumberland and some of its iconic places. First one one is Holy Island.
We are out for lunch with friends today.
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A dull day here, just pottering at home and some sorting of finances. Going out soon to do some stuff at the Guide Hall. Will be at DD’s on Sunday for more garden prep, her landscapers are due on Monday, hopefully.
Next week we have another 2 Guide Hall visits, Wednesday morning to meet with the joiner, and Thursday afternoon the electrician, so that will keep us busy.
I have been turning a bowl in Ash for our grand-daughter, I hope she will like it, but may never find out. This is a project OH suggested……I am to make a bowl for each grandchild, and write a card to go with it, then these will be kept by their parents until the child is 21. Oldest GS is 19, so I will hopefully still be around when he gets his, but GD is 15, and the other 2 only 4 and 7, so that may be a different story!
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Arrived on site in the lakes, warm sunny afternoon, the site is quite full with lots of families which is good to see. The fish and chips van has been, the 2024 vintage Lambrini has been opened, life on site doesn't get any better.
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Well that was quite good. Arrived at dermatologist first thing, shown into little op room. However, after a chat I asked her to check my scalp as it’s calmed down quite a bit now. But I was concerned that if I didn’t have the procedure it might flare up again and I’d have another 18 month wait. She’s given me a 6 months open appointment so if it does flare up again I can have the biopsy then. Seemed the perfect solution, which I was very pleased about. Quick RSV injection at GPs this afternoon, so, fingers very crossed, hopefully that’s me sorted for a while. As long as dental checkup next week goes ok.1
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Hope you get to see all your grandchildren receiving their bowl, @KjellNN I think it is a super idea.
Good news @DEBSC and fingers crossed that all is fine at the dentist.
Weather looks good at Troutbeck @Cornersteady and the site appears busy.
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It has bern another dry day, rather cloudy at times but the sun did come out occasionally and was reasonable warm. We had a couple of decent walks through Sunnyhurst Woods at Darwen, first planted in the early 19C and developed as a public park in 1903.
One of the bridges over the stream that runs through it.
A view of Darwen Tower from Earnsdale Reservoir at the top woods.
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....not home yet, @nelliethehooker 🙂 Arrived at White Water Park CAMC site yesterday for a few days... This finishes the 2nd Leg of our Summer Holiday travels... then we're home for two nights before we do the 3rd led of our Summer travels.... the Outer Hebrides - this time without the caravan!!
Thanks for the heads up about the L J Ross books @Takethedogalong. We've always enjoy our visits to Northumberland @Wherenext, although I think a tad busier than the last time we visites - perhaps we went at a slightly different time of the year last time...?
All the best for your appointmnents @DEBSC. Carol checks daily for news of an Hip operation, but we're still waiting... in spite of being on the list to take any cancellations too!!
In the meantime, it looks as if the sun has come out to play again today...
David
P.S. Last time we were home, I decided to buy a smaller more colourful carpet/groundsheet. Easier to handle, and surprisingly light. (Lighter than the standard, big grey one we've got - and doesn't need two people to pack it away)... Don't know how long it will last, especially on hardstandings, but seems fine so far... 🙂
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some good news re health care, others still waiting, but hope it happens soon. Hope those going away, still away get the promised nice weather for next week, it’s still lovely here. @KjellNN lovely ideas for keepsakes for your grandchildren, I was lucky enough to spend a lot of my childhood with one set of my GPs, the others had sadly passed away before I was born. I have some things from them I treasure.
We had a lovely long lunch with friends yesterday, then dropped the pooch off home for a rest and his tea, and headed off to BILs to pick up our old Jeep. It’s a classic now, he gave us lots of spares he has bought for it, so bit by bit it will be restored to glory, although it’s only a couple of wings, shockers for front and then some touching up of paintwork, so nothing extensive. OH drove it home and was like a kid in a sweet shop. There was some shuffling around of vehicles, but we got sorted. I’m looking forward to driving it, it was my main car for 15 years, and we have had some great times away in it.
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Trying to talk OH into stopping at the caravan for 3 weeks the next time we go, once he has all his hospital appointments out of the way. He never likes to go away for more than two weeks at the very most. Partly because the internet connection there is not best. And he just doesn’t like being away too long. I, on the other hand, would prefer to stay longer rather than keep travelling backwards and forwards, and it’s like home from home. Anyway - I’m using some of you guys as my comparisons and ammunition, reading out some of your posts about being away for weeks. I’ve just read yours out to him @DSB with my comment to him of ‘see, other people go away for longer’ I think he’s coming round, so thanks everyone. I could stay there on my own but we’d need to take two cars, which isn’t really practical when it’s so far away.2
