What are you all up to
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Well i have to report that out there somewhere there is somebody who cares sufficiently about my OH's condition to award her a Blue badge valid until 2026, thank you whoever you are, but it was a tough old slog, i am reasonably tech savvy so can scan documents put them into pdf files, translate Spanish documents into English, and my pista de resistance an A4 sheet showing the timeline of events from when my OH had the stroke until the present accompanied by some photographs all uoloaded to whoever processes these things, but done now, off to Asda as soon as we receive it to see if it works
miserable day yesterday dark and drizzly, dry today but still very dark for this time of year, my solar panels have only been averaging 5kw per day over the last few days when they should be averaging 25kw per day. Off to local daughters this afternoon to celebrate GDaughters birthday, 17 yrs old, another girl racer on the road
Sorento in for service and MOT on Thursday so need to give it a bit of a clean, i always think that if you present it clean and tidy they will take just that bit more care when they do the service etc, I know living in cloud cuckoo land, hope the sun shines for you whereever you are
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Lovely photos Nellie, glad to see you had a good day all together😁 Last time we saw Horseshoe Falls it was in full spate with logs rolling around in it, brought down by storms.
This little CS is a gem. Quiet, surrounded by nature, Red Kites, wildflowers. Facilities are excellent, clean loos and showers, smashing owners made us very welcome, and the sun is shining. Harlow Carr for us today, if we can tear ourselves away from wildlife watching….
We are only ones here at the moment.
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Nice smiley faces Nellie, sounds like you all had a good meet up.
Access to Bluebell Cottage CS is in a residential street, didn't see any access problems but not everyone's cup of tea if you want a rural outlook. The distant Forest of Bowland hills could be seen over the hedge!
OH and I are taking it in turns to see The 39 Steps at the Theatre by the Lake in Keswick. It's a spoof comedy of the story and I enjoyed it. OH goes tonight.
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New radiator arrived today as promised by John at Screwfix. Will have to arrange a convenient time for number 2 son to come and help me fix it. Trouble is he had a nasty car accident about a week ago when someone pulled out of a junction into the side of his car. Quite a lot of damaged (to the car) although garage seem to think they can repair it? Fortunately Simon was unhurt albeit quite shaken up by the experience.
David
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Sorento in for service and MOT on Thursday so need to give it a bit of a clean, i always think that if you present it clean and tidy they will take just that bit more care when they do the service etc,
Rufs - we did the same for the caravan service recently and the mobile engineer said that he has to make comments on his report to his company. Too many people apparently not giving proper access to important areas so he says sometimes he can't do some parts of the service. Happy with ours and he did go the extra mile with the work.
Love the split viewing arrangements. Hope you didn't give the game away Brue
Will make a note of your CS Ttda for when we join next year.
As Nellie mentioned we had a most enjoyable time with the Nellies yesterday and hope to have a repeat next week when they've moved to the west of us. Left the photos to the man with 2 good hands.
Haircut day for Mrs WN so she took her mother down to town as its market day. She was then able to do the "heavy" shop at Tescos for bulk items that MiL needs whilst we are away.
Had a good morning to myself so got the bikes out of storage and gave them an MOT. From the feel of things it looks like I'll be able to carry on with the cycling if my hand improves just slightly so that was good news. Did a few things with the caravan that needed doing as well.
Been a mixture of warm sunshine and grey, but warm, cloudy conditions.
Booked our Flu jabs for first week in October at the Pharmacy we use.
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Glad folks are enjoying their breaks and weather has improved.
It was 36C here today and similar for the next few days phew and whilst out shopping pm we saw quite a few walkers doing the well known walk through France to Spain and they certainly looked very hot and tired know that we could not do it just too hot.
Hope to get in the pool tomorrow after we have been around to friends as we taking a brand new Ipad to them to use as the little old laptop that was OH's many years ago is on its way out and he will have to show our friend on how to use it she does have an Iphone so that will help and she is not techy at all and her OH not interested and even does not have mobile phone or use computers at all he prefers DIY things instead, then we will have lunch before coming back home.
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Last full day (yesterday) in Wales so once the rain had ceased at midday we went to Llyn Clywedog for a final look see. We weren’t disappointed as the Ospreys were showing well. Juvenile in the nest calling, adult obliged and dropped a large fish into the nest.
Moved this morning and now settled in Buckinghamshire. Lovely to feel the warmth of the sun again
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Evening All
So after some fun spoiling weather, late this afternoon the sun here in north Devon came out to play. Families on site were keen to take advantage of it so we rallied round site and set up a ball game in the play field. Rolled up hoodies to make goal posts. We've had such a laugh together, us oldies thinking we can play ball, the youngsters running rings around us and even the teenagers joining in. An hour of total strangers of all ages getting together having fun away from phones tablets and social media, total impromptu fun. And I'm knackered
JK
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Thanks for the info on the site, brue but I think we might just stick with the CS at Caton, easy access , out in the countryside and a good dog walk close by. Hope your OH enjoys the play tonight. BTW you don't happen to be going to the "Brew for Moo" in aid of the NW Air Ambulance run by Kerry Irvine the Max and Paddy in the Lake District guy?
We went to Erddig today, had a good walk on the morning and round the House and Gardens in the afternoon. Another fine day with late afternoon/early evening sunshiny. This Dahlia caught my eye, as did the display at the rear of the house.
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Coo, Red hot overnight here, Pooch woke us up panting at 3am. More windows open, skylights raised. Beautiful this morning. Might do Kirkstall Abbey on way home today. Will post some photos when home. Brilliant little site for wildlife this one😁
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A warm 25c here just now, our too close neighbours have their noisy aircon on...makes a change from the nightly outdoor onion frying sessions.
Plenty of RAF aerobatic flying sessions each day and heaving hordes on the ground. What's not too like about the Lakes in August?! Nellie, no, not going to any festivals, I think the one you mentioned is fully booked.
Glad you're enjoying your stay TDA.
RedKite, hope it doesn't get too hot. I think the warmth is just a one day wonder here.
Enjoy the day everyone, we move on soon. We both enjoyed the theatre although a group of Californians sitting next to OH just didn't "get" The 39 Steps. Their English friend mentioned this to OH...we once took a German friend to an Alan Ayckbourn comedy and realised it was a culture step too far.
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Those of you who’ve recently been to The Theatre by The Lake at Keswick, may be interested , if you’re up that way again, to know Ralph McTell will be performing there on 2nd October. We’ve got tickets, but haven’t decided whether to drive there and back or take the caravan for a few days.
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Decided to visit Bletchley Park today. What a fantastic place it is, really informative and well maintained. In 3.5hrs we had only done about half the exhibits. Fortunately the entry price is valid for a year. Interestingly for me my father visited BP on many occasions in connection with his work at GCHQ
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Took advantage of the great weather to come over to the lakes. Dropped off at seathwaite then up to Glaramara, Allen Crags, then Seathwaite Fell. Now waiting for fish and chips.
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The weather is set to look hot for at least another week brue, so there will not be much done outside except for a dip in the little pool, enjoy the rest of your holiday and perhaps somewhere a bit quieter. It certainly is busy around here at the moment cars everywhere you go we have got so used to quiet roads still a another few weeks and it will be quiet again, we were out yesterday in my little car and met a large lorry coming towards us on a very narrow road had to get over as far as I could he did not even slow down but did managed to get pass us phew.
Good photos folks.
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We went to see Ralph McTell a couple of years ago at the Stables in MK (set up by John and Cleo Dankworth many years ago) Been a fan for many years and have a few of his original albums. You may find that after the show he does a meet and greet, found it nice to have a chat with him.
David
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Glad you enjoyed it. Margaret and I keep saying we must go back for another visit. The last time we were there it was pretty much like it was after the war. The interesting thing about Bletchley Park was that its true purpose didn't emerge until some years after the war into the 70's. We arrived in MK in 1979 and it was just starting to be talked about then.
David
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We are still away😁 Mum fine, so stay away said Sis, so we got down to Kirkstall Abbey, hand a good look around after some lunch, then decided to look for a last night site. Took us all of 10 minutes to decide to come back to this lovely CS again. Just watching the sun go down now, and thankfully a lot cooler. Beningborough Hall and Gardens tomorrow, more plant overload🤣
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Sorting MiL day today.
Acting as taxi this morning. She saw someone with a, we call them, dolly trolley at the market yesterday and got talking to the lady with it. Long story short we found ourselves at Ableworld where they had one in stock. We'll feel a bit better as well as when we're away she'll be able to cope with food shopping easier than present. We're on a bus route and all the drivers are good to her so she's mobile.
Afternoon spent batch cooking for her.
Did a bit of clothes packing in the caravan when we had some spare time.
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Bit of a scorcher today, in fact it was showing 33C in the car this afternoon!! We went across to Chirk Castle this morning and did a couple of walks around the estate, but didn't go in the castle as it was much too hot to leave Flyte in the car. Came across this ancient Sweet Chestnut on the way round. Last night on this CL before moving further west. The site is busy too with a third unit, another caravan, arriving today.
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I am sure you are right but of course the local population at the time was nowhere what it is now and its difficult to imagine an addition 8000 people who all had to be billeted somewhere reasonably local. BP is not far from Bletchley railway station so perhaps some came by train? I think that perhaps why it was not talked about more freely until very recently was as you say the Official Secrets Act and many took that as almost lifetime commitment and it seemed only the very much older members who survived actually started to talk about it, probably at the prompting of the Museum who would have wanted personal memories?
David
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Has anybody been moved onto the new digital BT telephone service, I dont think you have a choice they just move you, or they did us overnight last night, you move your telephone jack from the wall socket into the green socket on the back of your BT router assuming of course you are a BT broadband subscriber, they say all should be ok except for those using alarm systems on the analogue network, apparently you need to move to a digital alarm, dont know who pays, our move seems to have been succesful.
fantastic day yesterday, Solent was like glass, air temp 25 degs just right for a swim and laze on the beach to dry off, cloudy just now but supposed to brighten up but not cold,
Sorento failed MOT, seat belts in rear had been nibbled by Bentley the pup we had some time ago £400 to replace seat belts, the annoying thing is we lost the dog June last year in Spain, swallowed a fish hook, car was MOt'd this time last year and passed and seat belts are in exactly the same condition arghhhh!!!!
p.s. our wall telephone socket is very close to the desk where the router sits so cable is long enough to reach, if you are not in this fortunate position i guess you will have to relocate your telephone or router or source maybe an extension cable
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I think they initially set a date of 2025 for the change over to VOIP. We are with PlusNet, part of BT, and have not heard anything yet. The real issue is for those without an internet connection, don't know what they do in that case? We use a Panasonic phone hub with three phones attached so only the base unit needs to be near the router, which it is fortunately.
David
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NHS again.
My left shoulder has felt increasingly uncomfortable for a few years. But I put up with it, and hope the pills I take for other broken down bits help it. But at the beginning of last month it definitely got worse, and at the same time my right shoulder caused great discomfort, especially in bed. So the family made me go to the doctors. The GP though my left shoulder might be dislocated so sent me for an X-ray. "Every thing in the right" place so not dislocated. Yesterday I has an appointmnet with a Phsysio - who told me the left shoulder was as bad as it gets with osteoarthritis, and explained about surgery. The right shoulder however was suffering from a torn muscle. So he gave me a steroid injection, which apparantley lasts a few months and instructions for exercises. I don't know when I injured it - it's not a sports injury!
So, it's wait and see. No improvement yet, but I believe it takes a fw days to kick in.
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I knew we would have to move to Voice over ip (VOIP) at some stage, but this month we have been bombarded by emails/text messages from BT advising us that we would be moved today and explaining what we needed to do, bet there are a whole lot of people out there who do not have a clue what VOIP is all about and now have no landline telephone.
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