What are you all up to
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It's past 04:00 a.m. now and I'm on my second cup of tea. I might try making a toasted cheese and pickle sandwich before going back to bed and getting a few hours more sleep before the break of dawn.
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Anyhow, when we had used the Shogun to visit WWT, I was pleased to find that the air-conditioner was working, which it hadn't been before the service.
You were lucky Malcolm, probably just needed a re-gas. When it stopped working on our last XTrail, at 7 years old, it cost £600 to fix.
On the battery front, perhaps worth checking with a multimeter, on a daily basis, to see how fast it looses charge. Plus perhaps get a battery charger. Will GF keep coming out for the same thing?
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As regards the aircon the service department said something about the compressor.
The Shogun used to be all right if we ran it at least once a week but now we know it won't stand for two weeks without a run.
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It looks like there might be some fair weather and sunshine this morning but there's a lot of cloud around. Anyhow, we're awake again after another two hours sleep and the the tea is brewing as I type this.
It's noticeable how the trees are changing colour and taking on a more Autumn appearance. Welcome to the Spring Equinox! Now we must face longer nights than days!
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Just dropped my car off at the dealers. It was there yesterday to investigate a noise that sounded like the front wheel was going to fall off when turning. It turns out the CV joints need replacing (after 40,000 miles), they didn’t have the parts in yesterday hence the need to take it back today.
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Good luck with that Whittakerr. I hope it's not too expensive!
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I've just finished my second cup of tea and we have just had some Weetabix with sultanas for breakfast. The rest of it is cooking as I type, sausage, egg and bacon.
It will be time to get my newspaper soon.
Our next two nights away will be 9th to 11th October. We've booked those two nights at Littlehampton Club site. That should be an easy tow for us as we've stayed there before and know the way. It's only a short distance of about 6 miles from here.
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We've just finished breakfast of bacon, egg, sausage, mushrooms, onions and baked beans followed by toast, butter and marmalade.
I'm a bit slow getting ready this morning, so my wife's gone over to reception to collect todays paper.
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This morning I got a new kitchen worktop shelf delivered so I've been fitting that to the motorhome, it didn't take long. I'll just give us a little more worktop when I'm preparing all those wonderful meals I do (not!!) I've tried to upload a photo but still can't manage to do it on this site. 😡
Now I'm waiting for a DPD delivery of 22 boxes for work so I can sort them out.
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The morning seems to have gone quickly. I spent most of it reading the papers. Too much hype about Brexit made me feel sleepy so I've just woken up from a 15 minute snooze in the relaxer, fully reclined of course!
I'm trying to make the most of my time in the awning, being aware of the shorter hours of daylight approaching, coupled with colder, wetter weather, no doubt.
I can't help thinking, that bearing in mind the clocks going back one hour on 29th October, which is about equivalent of end of February in daylight hours; why do we have to wait until the end of March before the clocks go forward again? Isn't four months of dark evenings long enough without stretching it to five months?
By the middle of February, the mornings are getting lighter because of it getting close to the Spring Equinox, yet about one hour of daylight, at that time, is lost early in the morning whilst we are still asleep. It seems a pity because, if the clocks went forward one hour in February, we would have one hour more daylight in the evening when we most need it.
What do you think?
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Some people need daylight in the morning. We don't all sleep in!
And, I think you are wishing your life away talking about changing the clock and Spring. Live for the moment!
I will try to find a poem I read many many years ago - "Rising Five" by Norman Nichcolson.
Read the last line
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Yes but surely by the middle of February, you are getting enough daylight early in the morning?
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Rising Five
I’m rising five” he said
“Not four” and the little coils of hair
Un-clicked themselves upon his head.
His spectacles, brimful of eyes to stare
At me and the meadow, reflected cones of light
Above his toffee-buckled cheeks. He’d been alive
Fifty-six months or perhaps a week more;
_____________Not four
But rising five.Around him in the field, the cells of spring
Bubbled and doubled; buds unbuttoned; shoot
And stem shook out the creases from their frills,
And every tree was swilled with green.
It was the season after blossoming,
Before the forming of the fruit:
_____Not May
But rising June._____And in the sky
The dust dissected the tangential light:
_____Not day
But rising night;
_____Not now
But rising soon.The new buds push the old leaves from the bough.
We drop our youth behind us like a boy
Throwing away his toffee-wrappers. We never see the flower,
But only the fruit in the flower; never the fruit,
But only the rot in the fruit. We look for the marriage bed
In the baby’s cradle; we look for the grave in the bed;
_____Not living
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Well I can understand that with running a dairy farm, Goldie, you're probably up at 5 a.m. to milk the cows. So I suppose you prefer to do that in daylight. However, at the moment, it doesn't get light until 06:00 a.m. yet they haven't put the clocks back one hour yet. They leave that until the end of October!
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Well, I guess that's life! But like it says in Shakespeares Henry IV Part 1 in one of the scenes between Hal and Falstaff when the Royalists were preparing for battle and Falstaff expressed his fear of death. Hal, who was later to become Henry V said to him 'thou owest God a death' to which he replied: 't'is not due yet!'
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Luckily free grattis.
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A warranty job then. That must be a relief
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Pleasantly warm at 24C here sitting out at my favourite café - Paszkowski in the Piazza della Repubblica, Florence
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We had prawn fishcakes with chips and mixed vegetables for lunch.
After lunch, I felt sleepy so had a lie down and fell asleep.
I've just woken up and got the kettle on for an afternoon cup of tea. It's very dull, grey and raining outside. I can hear it pattering on the roof of the caravan and the windows covered in raindrops.
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Lucky you Corners, have a great time.
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It's still raining here. We sat out in the awning and had a cup of tea and then came in to watch a tv nature programme on BBC2. The weather is too miserable to go out anywhere.
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We've finished watching tv for now and I'm back in the awning having another cup of tea. My wife's busy preparing the food for tonights meal. She says there's no need to go shopping at Tesco this evening as we bought enough food yesterday.
She's cooking Pork Stroganoff for our evening meal accompanied by new potatoes and vegetables including cauliflower and carrots.
The weather sems to be brightening up at last. There's a hint sunshine peeping through the clouds as I type this.
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Rain all through the night and then during the morning, so two rather damp walks with Flyte before lunch in then van. It finally stopped about 1:30 this afternoon so we had a short trip down to LLangannog to view the geology of the rocks, visit the caves and have a walk on the beach.
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Good Evening Y'all !!
Returned from a productive Rally at Old Warden in Bedfordshire.
nice well thought out rally except for the car park ( of which more later !! )
Good display of Clayton & Shuttleworth steamers nicely placed for photography with a backdrop of the Big House, always asuming you can exclude the occasional caravan
.Decided to amble back to the 'van about 4.00 but the rain came & how !! Huddled under trees 'til about 5.00 then ambled back in the drizzle. The great advantage of using the 'van was that I could change out of my rather more than damp clothing without scaring the horses
.Driving off site with great care, only got about 20 yards before the treads were full of slippy, slimey MUD.
Help came in the shape of the local group of military cadets, but alas they were all about 5ft & 7 stone wet thro and the 'vans 3:5 tonne. Eventually a nice Disco came along ( I was about 20 or 30th in his queue ) & towed me all the way to a hard road Bless His Cotton Socks !
Fortunately the rural roads had plenty of standing water &/or puddles so the wheels & underworks were nice & clean before I got back to Thetford Club Site.
Now I'm back at home, washing & ironing all done, 'van 95% emptied just in need of a trip thro the car wash, while I'm in need of another good nights sleep so Nighty Night everybody, back into the old routine tomorrow
Brian A B M
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