What are you all up to
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“What are you all up to?”. . . .Getting wet happily, it’s gently raining here with what Grandma called-‘that there wet rain’ I finally realised ‘that there wet rain’ was a level of rain that penetrated not ran off. Garden drinking it in, butts filling slowly-all hail Mother Nature👍🏻😊
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Took the Caravan in for the recent scrage on the door to be repaired yesterday. When I took it off the hook, I realised that that might have been my last tow, for I suspect that I will accept the offer I have received for it from my dealer. That will be the end of our caravanning after 40 years. Lots of happy memories! We will surely miss the way of life but the setting up and the taking down has got too much.
Just realised how much extra kit I must get rid of! 3 x Calor light cylinders. 1,000 cm Isabella awning, not used for at least 5 years. large Porch awning again not used for a couple of years. all sorts of other bits & pieces.
Sad, but it comes to us all I guess.
TF
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Oh dear Goldie, hope you can get supplies back soon. I've been listening to heavy rain outside most of the night, too much for the guttering to cope with and it hasn't stopped yet. The family are camping this weekend, but they are on a friends farm so I think they have been offered some shelter.
Hope you enjoy the next stop Nellie and your OH feels better.
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Sorry to hear that tigerfish. A sad day but one, as you say, I fear must come to us all. At least you have lovely memories and, I expect, some funny anecdotes 😉.
I've always said if I have to sit in a nursing home or wherever I want to say "I'm glad I did" not "I wish I had". You will be in the former.
Wishing you a very happy time with the next stage, hopefully this will still include trips away from home with someone else doing the preparing and producing. Won't be the same but hopefully just as enjoyable 😁
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Oh nelliethehooker doesn't sound like a good week past for you 😮. Another trip to explore when you're passing that way again. I hope your OH feeling better today.
Goldie that seems so ironic 😉
We had more heavy rain overnight - it can stop now thanks, garden is refreshed and waterbutts full.
Just assisted a bee out of the conservatory, the door is open, it's grey and muggy, it was H U G E almost as long as my thumb 😲😲.
I think we're off to the boat race around Mersea Island, the largest tidal island in the UK 🙂. That may change due to traffic weather or our fancy!
Tammygirl and brue I hope there's some improvement in your mum's with the antibioctics. Mine certainly seems sharper 😉 now the weather's cooler.
Enjoy your day folks.
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Good thinking to avoid the school visits OP. I think we are in for a busy few months.
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It's really worth having a look, the huge parachute and the tiny capsule plus all the info. If it's similar to York people were having fun being photographed in a space suit too. Both of us looked at the virtual reality trip and thought no, we've done something similar before and came out with vertigo.
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Just get that "Normal Scottish Summer Weather of Rain" sorted if you please, TammyGirl
I've got a trip dahn sarf to Salisbury Hillside starting on Wednesday to brace me for that certain Steam Fair week, then I'll be home for a week including a Christening (
youngest gt gt nephew Bless Him 
).Then I'm doing the Eastern Circular** tour of Scotland for at least three weeks, and I'll be most ratty if this damp ( !! ) persists over that period
.** Home / Strathclyde / Banchory / Culloden / ALTNAHARA / Maragowan / Melrose / Home
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Have a good time at the GDSF ABM..OH was asked to join in the merriment and take the van but he can't go due to other recent happenings. The family trumpeter is playing in one of the Ska bands on Sunday evening, (he plays in various set ups) wall to wall noise but should be fun!
Enjoy Scotland too, we had started to book a trip north in September but it is starting to look unlikely now.
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Miserable day today, wall to wall rain, not heavy just persistent.
Had a lovely sound sleep last night but my eyes still feel heavy today.
Went to see Mum this morning, she was sat in the dining room having morning cuppa and biscuit, why she wasn't in the lounge I don't know but who cares she seems to be a bit better but very frail now.
Very agitated to start with, couldn't remember who we were and why she is there. As you sit with her and talk (answer questions) she calms down as things fall into place. The home have made her a memory book that hopefully will help at times. We've got a few photos that we can add to it, she has a number of photo albums in her room that she looks through.
Left home and went and did a bit of food shopping, supermarket was fairly busy must be everyone taking advantage of rain to stock up. Then back home for lunch and a catch up on here.
Think I will get my sewing machine out again and make a couple of bags to keep things in, under the beds in the caravan.
We have a small folding table with 3 sets of legs to make it different heights, very handy thing but it was starting to show signs of wear. The top had a number of scratches on it so I gave it a 'make over' I bought some sticky back plastic and have recovered it, looks fab now, so going to make a padded bag to keep it from getting scratched again.
Roast dinner tonight, first one we will have had in awhile due to the lovely warm weather but today is perfect for a nice piece of roast lamb, new and roast potatoes with 3 veg and gravy Mmmmmm can't wait.
Had enough of the rain now can someone switch it off please
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Just home after a weekend at Ayr Craigie C&MC site. Weather was nice yesterday so we went in to Prestwick for a walk around and then back to the van to relax and have a few drinks we had picked up a steak pie from a local butcher in Prestwick so we cooked that last night and they were excellent. When we got up this morning it was pouring and lots of people had left early dont think we have ever seen Craigie empty so quickly on a Sunday morning. We hung atound until 12 and got soaked packing up but only a 35 min tow home so not too bad. We aren't able to get away now for 4 weeks due to family events so I took the opportunity to wash the van before putting it in its space on the drive. Now just sitting drying out with a cup of coffee warching the football.
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Nice to see folks away on holiday and some areas still got good weather, we are due a storm tonight which will cool things down, we have friends here helping us to do a concrete base for new shed and the weather station is showing 36.9C at present a bit to warm but a bit cooler in the shade here in the Lot for the work on the base.
Looking forward to a break in the UK next month.
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We are all set up at Houghton Mill. We have been lucky with the weather. The forecast said heavy rain until mid afternoon which wouldn't have been a lot of fun but after lots of rain overnight it stopped first thing and has been dry all day. Rather grey and humid though. I think it might be nearly wine o'clock 😄
Glad to hear your Mum seemed a bit brighter today tammygirl. Also pleased to hear that your Mum seems a bit better as well bakers2.
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Just looking thro' the "Music" catalogue for GDSF Brue and I see Sunday Evening in the "Old Rosie Out Door Concert Stage" and I see Big Brass Ska at 6:30 -> 7:30 pm so I'll go & throw some over ripe tomatoes around
On a more serious level though, I quite understand the problems that can arise with elderly relatives. My aged sister will be 88 in November but I still take her out for serious shopping about once a month ( Cat food weighs heavy !!). Her daughter takes her for less serious and, possibly, more personal shopping. Even then she will cross the road to the local CO-OP for odds and ends BUT she does like to use a bus from the end of the road into town to do some shopping on her own, purely to drive us scatty & maintain the ability to survive should the two of us be away at the same time.
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Long may your sister enjoy her independence ABM, even with some help from you and the family.
By the way, you'll have run out of tomatoes I hope for the 8-9pm players... so they'll be ok.
We've had a reprieve tonight, son and grandson are having an extra night with friends so the 6am alarm call will be missing, one more night to recover from our lively jumping bean.
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Gosh it's been a busy few days here. I tried to keep up to date on here but I haven't had time to post anything, sorry. 😐
I've spent today researching where to visit in Northumberland. I've found a few nice restaurants and tea rooms. OH wants to walk some of Hadrian's Wall and see the fort at Housesteads and I would like to see Bamburgh Castle.
We've also changed the car for a (new to us) Kuga Mark 2 which we're hoping to pick up next Saturday. It just depends if the dealer can fit the tow bar in time. 🚗
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Well it hasn't stopped raining all day, have now got the heating on low to take the chill out of the rooms.
Due to not being able to get outdoors I set to with the sewing machine again, 2 stuff bags made for the duvets and a padded bag for the small table now complete.
what else can I make Been watching the European games and I think we did very well this year, well done all our athletes.
The roast lamb dinner was lovely Mmmmm
ADD46, we've just bought a Kuga 2 as a tow car, OH pleased with it, just need to get the caravan now to try it out towing
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Thanks all for your good wishes for OH. She's feeling so much better today. We think it must have been something she ate but was able to flush it out of her system.
Easy run up the M1 today, with no traffic problems. We found site easily enough and only 1 other unit on site.
Hope that you find new things to occupy your time, now that you're getting rid of your caravan, tigerfish. All my best wishes for the future.
B2, we'll just have to return sometime and visit the places we missed this trip. Hope that the weather didn't stop your trip to see the boat race round Mersea Island.
Goldie, glad that the rain has reached you too, we had a little early this morning. Hope that you get your mains water back soon.
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Tammygirl - we currently have a Kuga Mark 1 and have been really happy with it as a tow car and for commuting. It's time to change to the mark 2 and we're also going from a manual to an automatic. I've never driven an automatic so it's a big change.
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well left hotel at 9am with 28C, landed at Newcastle at 5pm with 17C and horrible wet stuff coming down from the sky which was a strange dull grey colour. Why is the sky so low here?
Kept a lookout for caravans and motor homes on the island while away but saw no caravans and only two motorhomes. I think this is because there were no club sites around? Pictures attached. I noticed them on my morning walk and they were there quite a few days and were inhabited as they had different towels on a rail round the back. Any ideas on the make of the one facing right?
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It's a McLouis. Welcome home to rainy England.
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thanks for the reply and the welcome home
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I doubt you will ever want to go back to a manual!!!
David
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