What are you all up to
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Good day of pottering, plenty achieved so pretty pleased. Neighbour gave us lettuce and peas picked from his allotment. Strawberries 🍓 still going strong in our garden. Found a dead bat in the garden, sent a pic to niece, a licensed bat handler to see if she could identify.
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Took the Aged Sister to B & Q to get a replacement for her, but they said "Sorry Time Expired Stock
. So she had to get a tool to clean her high inside windows instead. Lots more humour in a similar vein, but it came back to bite me where I sit. Went for a refreshing swill before going to see friends and the water was cold 
( well barely tepid ) The blasted immersion heater control had failed, so back to B & Q after a flying courtesy visit to The Friends. Must be a common fault 'cos the replacement carries same make & mark no's as the original so they must have brought loads and loads in as ballast. I must try drilling out the security screws to see if it's repairable -- purely for my own interest of course 
Now the water is right for dish washing etc, I'll go & have a proper cold shower.
Cricket on, football to come, six or more BBC channels showing tennis and its still ideal weather for soaking ones toes in a nice cool river
-- oh such a hard life 
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Thanks for the tip off tda. Yes booked Pinewoods and paid the premium price, cleared by OH 😉, to walk to the Hall. Jolly cross to find its not as close as we thought. That's doing research on a phone! But better to discover it sooner rather than later. Have broken the news to OH who said we'll drive, then I added that Wherenext said bus drops us at the Hall. So we'll investigate on arrival.
Must say we have both fancied the site for a while and with the weather as it is as it is it should be lovely. But bread and it meals 😂😂. No pockets in a shroud 😉
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Well done Malcolm, have you asked for a pay rise? 😉
Well done on pottering Oneputt, nice to harvest after your labours.
DEBSC how lovely if you can get a shot we'd all love to see the jays.
Wherenext I'm sure you don't mean that really! Hope you actual dentist wasn't too painful.
We walked into Yarmouth today and tried to eat at Colombia Tavern, only to find it didn't open until 1730, not on their website. So went to Silver Darlings at Tide and Time, lovely sandwich before a very good visit into the actual museum.
As usual so much to take in but I wanted to concentrate on the herring harvest and I like recent social history so the recreated Row was great and the smell of smoke lingers in some exhibition areas where the herrings used to be smoked. I've always been fascinated by the herring girls following the harvest down the east coast. Very hard life and quite usual to gut 60 herrings a minute.
Trivia the women in Towers curing house were the first to bring an action for equal pay ( asking to receive the90p per hour to paid to the men) in 1976 after the 1975 equal pay act. They lost and returned to work. They weren't considered equal work to the men as they were only expected to fill 500 skeets (the pole the herrings are threaded onto) with 21 herring per shift meaning they handled 8,000 herring in 8 hours.
Now the football is on 😉
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Have just had an email from H&T and all is well. I am sure she will post on here before too long.
Heard this afternoon that our eldest grand-daughter has passed her PGCE (teaching degree). We are so proud of her as she has worked extremely hard (not naturally academic) and has had to overcome some difficulties not least her recent stay in hospital. She started in her new teaching post yesterday as they like to have new teachers get used to their new class for a few weeks before September.
Did my normal shift as a Cathedral Welcomer this morning. It took a while to get back in the swing of things after 3 weeks off. It was nice to be back.
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Him up there looks after the just! We already use inexpensive CLs, B2, but can't do without EHU. I'm sure that I'll find the odd penny or two somewhere to pay for the repair.
We start off at Chester then down to Ombersley near Worcester, onto Cheltenham, then Bibury, across to Buckinghamshire, up to Nottingham, then Chesterfield and one final CL on the way home, yet to be selected. A short trip for us only 5 weeks or so, as we like to get home before the August Bank Holiday.
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Thanks for the news on helenandtrevor milliehull and many congratulations to your granddaughter. I think those that don't find learning easy make great teachers as they understand how hard it can be. My daughter highlights this herself, she's great at finding alternative explanations to show the kids how it's done. Strangely she find languages easy when immersed in them. Where she teaches they have to include Maori, one or only 2 regions that did more are having to make it more inclusive, and she's got her girls (2 & 4) bilingual already. I was presented with a book to read the girls and couldn't because it was in Maori, my poor granddaughter was aghast 😂. Puts their dad to shame 😉😉😉 he was fully educated in the same area having arrived aged 4.
Nelliethehooker I did make the remark tongue in cheek. I do hope your bill isn't too bad. Rob Peter pay Paul etc it'll all work out fine. Sounds like another lovely trip planned. Ours is a bit on the hoof 😃
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If you're driving to Holkham, there's a free parking area on the right as one drives up past the Pub towards the gates to the estate. It's a pleasant walk form there along to the House.
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Great to hear that your granddaughter has qualified as a teacher, especially following her hospital stay, and that she's got a teaching position already, millie.
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Thanks, may well check it out before we go to site. We're not overly long 6m but are high. Parking is £3 what's that on top of £30 a night 😉😂. The equivalent of a tip. I don't suppose himself will see it that way.
I heard from Adrienne today she has a booking for Baker with no contact details, thought it may be us - alas no. She said bookings are up and a visitor showed her a good review of the site in MMM. Really pleased for her but it's our bolthole 😉
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If I'd had to to wait 'til tomorrow JVB, I'd have expected much, much more than 10% off !! but the electrickery bit was needed 'cos I'll be loading the motor tomorrow, as well as drinking copious amounts of cooled water !!
Best wishes for the next few days y'all -- remember Slip - Slop - Slap & wear a hat.
P.S. Have to admit I'm hoping & praying the Football team in the caves can all be evacuated soon and well.
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Thanks nellie. Sorry to hear about the trouble with your van. But as others have said it is a good job it was found before you set off again.
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Niece couldn't identify the bat from the the photo I sent, to me it looks like a cat got it although I'm not sure how.
B2, the T&T museum is great, Mrs One mum had lots of memories of the scottish fisher girls gutting herring in the open whatever the weather along the quayside. You could walk across the river from fishing boat to fishing boat on a Sunday as they wouldn't go fishing on the holy day.
Hope you get the van fixed quickly Nell, the potential doesn't bear thinking about.
Congrats to the grand daughter Millie, I'm full of admiration for people who take up teaching.
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Thanks, redface!
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Thanks, wherenext!
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Thanks, Bakers2 but no pay rise apart from the pay rise I got on 1st April when the minimum wage went up from £7.50 to £7.83. The drop money remains the same at 80 pence per drop.
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It is necessary if you have a holiday booked. Steve was booked to stay two nights on a club site within the 72 hours notice requird by the club for cancellation. The breakdown covers the car and caravan. I used Mayday when my car broke down.
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Well done that girl Millie, you must all be so pleased for her.
We are waiting for our son's degree results, he has been a "mature" student and this was his first major study course after a big career change.
It's good to see them all making progress and tackling challenges at whatever level.
Well, up early, builders at work and I must do some too.
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Good luck to your son brue. I am full of admiration for people who tackle a degree and a career change when 'mature'. It is such a big decision. Hope he gets the result he wants.
Bakers2. Pinewood advertise at our caravan storage depot and I had a look online but decided against it when I saw the prices
. Holkham Hall is lovely. I am sure you will enjoy it. The bus seems a good option. We found the Coast hopper bus very efficient when we were at Seacroft recently.0 -
Good luck to your son Brue and hope the builders get sorted and clean up after themselves.
Busy day for me so far, concreted in 2 x posts and also washed the car ready to get it dirty again on this weekends trip to Pembrokeshire. Admin stuff to do for the rest f the day.
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Late start today as did not wake up until 0655 so Rosa did not get her first walk until 0715,it was a much cooler night so maybe that was the reason,
Off on our next (UK of course)tour tomorrow all six sites cc, to take in 60th birthday at Winchester,visit Bruv and family on IOW,try out new site at Bridport,then into Welshland to meet up with friends at Treddeger, from there to Cirencester for another "party" and country fair,on to Broadway for third meet with "party" then we should be returning home that will be middle of August,unless?
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Enjoy your trip JVB! We are off on a rally soon, bad timing with builders but can't be helped, we can get back home if needed.
Yeovilton Air Show on Saturday, should see some interesting practice over the next few days. Watch out all on the A303, there might be a few traffic jams if travelling.
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Another glorious day at New England Bay with absolutely no plans!
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We are not stopping on the Island this time (normally Southlands)as we are staying at Black Knowl,so will catch train from Brockenhurst then ferry from Lymington and they will meet us at Yarmouth the days we go over (it will not cost us anything to travel there)
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