What are you all up to

Had a lovely day walking part of the Kennet & Avon canal towpath,from Devizes past the Caen Locks and down to ths C&CC site before returning. Very windy but sunny and warm. Did some shopping in Devizes before returning to the CL.

Hope those travelling took it easy.

M, should get the National Trust on the case.

Glad you're enjoying it.

Today we took the car out and drove up to Mt Ventoux, lovely drive lots of folk cycling up the mountain. Surprisingly the roads up and down are much better than we anticipated, much better than Coll Grand Colombier which we did last weekend. Much cooler at the top but not chilly 18/19c views terrific, had a picnic at the top. Drove down by a different route and stopped off at Carpentras for a look around. Way to hot at 33c so came back to site for a nice cool swim.

M, there are some strange folk around  we had similar when we did a Nile cruise, 1 woman said to hubby "I'm all templed out, they are all the same" felt like shouting 'no there not, have you not been listening' 

OP, have thought about a front cover, not sure yet as we do a fair few 1 nighters, isn't it a bit of a faff?

Hope everyone is safe from the storm.

We are away in the van for 4 nights we arrived on site at half 6 and were set up within 20 mins. We had dinner and are now sitting watching the TV. Lickily the wind has died down today so no trouble towing. You can really tell that the summer has gone now as we have had to put the heating on in the van for the first time since April.

We had a peaceful night last night with little or no wind, although it did rain a bit and was still raining until lunchtime. Using our brollys  & wellies we managed an hour's dry walk up into Chepstow Park woods and then drove down to the town for a few bits from Lidl before parking at Tesco's and wandered through the town to visit the Castle. We were surprised at the size of it and impressed by it's location above the R.Wye. Wind has got up again and now it's pouring with rain too. Last walk should be fun!!

We seem to have survived the storms without damage, though a big branch fell off a tree nearby and took out a street sign.  Most problems seem to have been further south, and the heavy rain a bit further north, though we did have hailstones overnight,  and quite a few strong gusts of wind yesterday afternoon.

Still keeping busy with this house, demolition in the 2 bedrooms is almost complete and most of the new plasterboard is in place, next week we may be able to get in the plasterer, just a couple of new sockets to put in first.

New skirtings and facings to buy next week so they can acclimatise, and DD now needs to decide on flooring so that can be ordered up too.

Painting going OK, but still plenty to do, both grans were wielding paint rollers today between baby sitting duties.

At the old house, last week's viewers have had a second viewing and  have said they plan to make an offer tomorrow, meantime DD has 2 new viewers booked in for 15.30 and 16.30 tomorrow, so we will be going there first thing to do the usual tidying and cleaning.  Should not need much as they have hardly been there recently.  Just hoping she gets a sale soon!

Winds peaked at 50 knots (60mph for you landlubbers) last night. The weather has certainly deteriorated since we got home from our travels. Seems we timed it to perfection for once. Sad to think that trips for the next six months are more likely to be grey and gloomy with short days.

We were staying at Strathclyde Park C&MC last night and got up early and headed down to the Lake District a nice easy 2  hour drive down although a bit rainy. Arrived on site at half 12 and luckily set up before the rain started again. Just having a cup of coffee now before we head in to Keswick for the afternoon.