What are you all up to

Malcolm , thanks for that only asked as the son of a work colleague has gone for a job as a driver for 🍕 express.😋.

But  More  about  'Vanning  --  I've  just  had  12  or  so  days  in  The  Middle  East  !  Thetford  Forest  Club  site  thro'  the  hot  days  followed  by  the  cooling  off  period  at  Cherry  Hinton  !!

As  usual  both  sites  manned  by more  Brilliant  Club  Wardens,  plenty  of  usage  --  Thetford  was  full  to  overflowing  due  to  the  Sunday  being  the  Desert  Rats  Holding  their  Memorial  Meeting  with  East  Anglian  Troops,  Gurkhas,  Royal  British  Legion  etc  etc. in  attendance.  The  only  problem  I  had  was  keeping  out  of  the  way  of  them  there  1940's  Dancers  --  some  of  whom  appeared  to  be of  the  correct  vintage  as  well   !!

Timed  my  arrival  at  CH  to  the  minute,  13:01  to  find  myself  about  6th  in  the  queue  and  the  warden {  Alan ? }  organising  away  like  billy-oh  !!  They  really  do  get  put  upon  by  folks  who  try  to  push  the  limits  to,  er,  well  to  the  limit,  but  they  did  it  as  usual  with  a  light  touch  &  a  Smile.!!

Brian

I think Malc is talking about a different type of insurance rather than car insurance. If driving a car owned and insured by the firm then they'd be covered. If driving their own car then business cover needs to be in place on their own policy. 

Worth checking first. 

We need rain too Millie, might get some later today I hope.

Had second sleepless night with ageing deaf terrier who can smell every single visiting hedgehog through our open windows. Too warm too close them. The milkman arrived with his head torch at the usual 2 am. We might as well have had a party in the garden! 

I remember friends visiting us in the summer when we lived near the Cairngorms, they commented that it was warmer than they thought it would be. We had to tell them it was because the heating was on all the time!

It was fairly quiet at work yesterday evening which didn't surprise me. Mondays are usually quiet and it was also a warm, sunny evening, so after 4 hours at work, I still have a full tank of fuel!

Day off today but pouring with rain at the moment so I've spent most of the day watching tv including the afternoon movie on Film 4 which was supposed to be a comedy but not very funny! My favourite comedy is 'Some Mothers do 'ave 'em' but that wasn't on any of the channels today. 

We've just been shopping in Tesco, not that we needed much but in this rain, we had to find something do that was under cover and Tesco Extra fitted the bill for that! We managed to spend £36, so another 36 points plus 9 bonus points for Tesco credit card spend so 45 points altogether.

We're back at the caravan now so time to do some zapping with the tv remote control whilst it's continuing to pour with rain outside. The pattering of the rain is making a huge noise on the caravan roof which means having to turn the tv volume up to hear it!

It has finally started raining here. It's been close and humid all day and we're really needing some water for the garden etc. I persuaded OH to take a short drive out to NT Barrington (mentioned on CT recently by the afficionados.) We're doing a lot of work outside at home so I was really glad to get out, we had lunch inside the house. Normally we would sit outside but a swarm of bees had landed on a very low NT sign (about a foot above the front lawn near the tea terrace.) So we were all inside and could see the local beekeeper coaxing them all in to a box. A long process. So no access to the front lawns at all. Nice lunch, home made food with veg from the garden and a drink of apple juice from Barrington too, the cider is good but we knew we had to drive and do more when we got back.

A few pics of our visit. A bit dull weatherwise but it gives you an idea of the lovely gardens and space at Barrington.

Yes the house is still virtually empty with a few places to sit down. I love being able to roam around it freely, didn't get time today but enjoyed the gardens instead. They've also got a very large secondhand book barn, no-one there, just an honesty box.

We shared a lovely baked raspberry cheesecake with fruit from the garden....forgot to mention that, needed to do some walking afterwards.

I got that impression too JayEss , I think he's talking about some sort of public liability. Which begs the question is our Malcolm doing deliveries using a SDP policy?.Hope not !.

Thanks, just shoot me if I start taking photos of my lunch.....