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A fitting tribute for a lot of hard work, I suspect, Goldie. Brilliant - well done!
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Have a great time, everyone else who are able to get away at the moment. We managed a daytrip down to Devizes on Tuesday to visit our youngest daughter for her birthday. Really missing not being able to get out in the caravan..... still waiting to get our car back from the repairers - looks like it'll be early October.... 😢😢. I guess the one consolation is that I'm saving on fuel using the 20 year old Renault Scenic (otherwise known as 'the rust bucket' 😀)
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Decided to take it a bit easier today so we had stroll on the Eye at Blakeney before it got too hot.
We then visited St.Nicholas church in Blakeney. A lovely place with some of the best examples of Ecclesiastical woodwork I've seen. End of each pew had various figures carved on them and the Pulpit, Misericords and Screen were worth the walk to the church themselves.
Mrs WN was persuaded to ascend the 90+ stone steps of the large tower to take a photo or two. I've enclosed one because, if you enlarge it, you can see the CL with 4 caravans on it. The church pillars have some graffiti on them if you look carefully, being carved by sailors from all over when the sea came right into town before the marsh arrived.
A very pleasant way to spend the morning. A quick trip to Picnic Fayre and Cley Smokehouse for lunch eaten back at the caravan.
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Glad you had a nice day WN. We have a tea towel bought in Blakeney Church from the 1990’s🤣 (Hardly used, thanks to dishwasher) Love all the North Norfolk churches, full of history. Have you been to Binham Priory? Very interesting. There’s a lovely old Manor House not far away at Stiffkey as well, but it’s privately owned. Sadly, the wonderful old Lamp Shop and Antiques Centre in Stiffkey has closed I think now. Have a good 40’s weekend👍
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We arrived on site early afternoon just local but great to be away again as it’s been 5 weeks since we were last away. Site very busy but it’s pouring so not much planned tonight just have a night in the van and watch TV have a couple of drinks. Not much planned tomorrow either just relaxing.
Hope everyone else has a nice weekend
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Glad folks are having a good times away. We had to do a couple of things in Tiverton am and I went to EWM so spent a few pounds on sale items, then off to RHS Rosemoor gosh the traffic on A361 from Barnstaple was nose to tail all the way to our turning off at South Molton and a lot quieter on the smaller roads thankfully and enjoyed walking around the gardens well I did as left OH in one of the garden shelters but he did a bit and the end of our tour around and had a lovely lunch there as well, back van and now chilling out it has been 24C here today but looks cooler from now on and some rain.
Have good weekend folks.
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You’re in our neck of the woods then RK. The A361 is like that every day, if going anywhere, other than really local, we have to use it. It’s much worse since the roadworks to ‘upgrade’ it started 2 years ago and they are no where near finished. Still the 40 mile an hour restrictions have cut down on the many fatalities which must be a good thing.
Did you by chance visit the allotment site, at Rosemoor, I did a ten month allotment course there some years ago. Learnt quite a bit about veg growing. It’s made much easier by having the big polytunnel there to start all the young veg off. We first visited there when the whole site was just mud and bare earth sectioned off. My dear Mum said it would all be beautiful one day, sadly she never lived to see that but whenever I visit I try to see it all through her eyes.
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I may be old, but not that old!!
Perhaps I can borrow yours?
I think that had I a demob suit I could well have given up caravanning a few years back.1 -
Day at home doing "stuff", wet out in the afternoon. We were going to go out for some shopping, but in the end I just went over to Lidl for some milk.
Started tidying up in the other kitchen now the new boiler is up and running. Replaced the boxing in of pipes, but need to do more above boiler. That will need to go on OH's "to do" list!
OH asked me to change the over table light in that kitchen, she had one that matched our brass door furniture better. DD wants the original copper coloured one.
After OH cleaned the floor I brought up the extending Oak table we got on freecycle and re-assembled and cleaned it. It fits exactly in the space, but has 2 leaves that can be pulled out. Still some cleaning and clearing before it is all in order.
Plenty to keep us busy!
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Simple drive along to the rally site. There are about 40 units on the rally, roughly evenly split between caravans and M/Hs. The rally field is part of a large commercial site which is quite busy this weekend. Spotted 3 original style jeeps on the camping field, but not seen anyone garbed up yet. Good dog walk in the woods adjacent to the site, part of which we explored this afternoon. Lovely sunny day here but it grew quite cool in the evening.
Congratulations on all the rosettes that your family won yesterday, Goldie
Enjoy your trip away Francis. Hope the weather picks up for you.
Fingers crossed that the rain stays off, RK, and you manage to avoid the heavy traffic on your trips out.
WN, Mrs Nellie would love to be able to do the jive but knows very well that her knees would not be up to it these days.😆
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DK, didn't bring the rain with us. It's been lovely here nice warm and sunny.
Freddy55, first time here really enjoyed it. Walked into town this morning then this afternoon walked the other way.
Baker's, nice offer 😁 sounds like your garden has been productive. I loved growing things but now we are away so much its just not possible anymore.
Have enjoyed our stay here, good move to come down this side of England. Off to Folkestone tomorrow then tunnel Sunday morning.
NTH, enjoy the rally
WN sounds like you are having a good trip.
Francis, hope the weather improves so you can get the Cadac out 😉
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We are just back from a few days away in an area that we don’t know very well. OH has wanted to visit Quarry Bank Mill for sometime, so we made good use of our National Trust cards and visited that and also Lyme Park. Quarry Bank is a great visit, such a lot of history and stories, it is one of few mills that have records going back to its inception in 1790’s so there is much to learn about the development of weaving and many stories of the children that were ‘apprenticed’ there. It was such a hard life for them and this was one of the better places. The next day we visited Lyme Park, we had a beautiful day so were able to enjoy it at its best. The house is interesting, it has a large collection of clocks and tapestries, and was used as the exterior of Pemberley in the 1995 TV version of Pride and Prejudice, but we had no Mr D’Arcy appearing from the lake though! Photos came out in the wrong order! 🤷🏻♀️
Enjoy your holiday Tammygirl, and everyone else who is away. Take care.
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Ttda, yes we've been to Binham. Also took MiL to Walsingham as her brother used to have a weeks retreat there every year and she wanted to see it.
Heddlo, talking of MiL she used to work in a weaving mill as a weaver in Lancashire. I have to be careful as she can lip read, sometimes better than she can hear.
Agree with you that Quarry Bank an excellent place to visit. What conditions they used to work in.
Tammy, hope you have a good trip. I assume you'll follow the good weather but do you anywhere specific you're aiming for?
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Had a smashing time with the Nellies' today. Met them on their Rally site and had a lovely walk, about 6 miles I think Nellie said, over Kelling Heath and local forests, which meant we didn't get too hot.
A nice chat afterwards to unwind.
Both of us heading in opposite directions next week.
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A nice chat afterwards to unwind
The beers helped too!
We too enjoyed the walk, and although the sun was out we had enough of a breeze to make the temperature comfortable. Hope you are not feeling the aftereffects of walking thst distance, WN. I tried for some photos of the trains and the dragonflies we saw while having our lunch but without much success. However I spotted this interesting grouping of Fungi when out with Flyte after dinner. Hope your trip goes well, TG, and like your pictures, Heddlo. It is quite a while since we visited Lyme Park, as we can't find CL close by.
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Outside Santa Reparata. The original church on the site of, and now under, the Dumno.
Perhaps a blueprint for future club site rules?
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Well Heddlo you might not have seen Mr D’Arcy but we certainly did! OH bought a guitar from an online auction house, then informed me he had to do a 120 mile round trip from our caravan to collect it, I was not best pleased. Then we realised that Lacock was only 4 miles further on so we made a day of it. Lovely day, wandered around the village, then went to the Abbey, where we saw a few groups of women dressed beautifully, think they may have been the Jane Austen appreciation society or such like. Lovely costumes, all ladies. Just as we were leaving we saw one gentleman also in full period costume. So smart, long boots, breeches, cravat, beautiful green coat and top hat, just like Mr D’Arcy. Told OH he needs to up his game. 😃
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Just popped in as i was picking up my emails, prefer laptop to phone.
Firmly entrenched on our site in Devon, Tavistock, been here since 2nd Sept, first 2 weeks just beautiful 25-30 degs, lots of swimming in the sea pool at Bude and in the indoor pool on site.Had to get the Spanish fans out to keep the van cool during the night
Not done much walking as neither of us now have the legs for stomping up dale and down dell, but have walked along the Tavistock canal which is very shaded ideal for hot days and the Arboretum at Burrator Reservoir . We are just back from Brackley home of the Silverstone F1 racetrack, SIL's birthday so we travelled up Saturday morning did an over night stay in a Marstons hotel and then travelled back today. Lashed it down on the M5 but all good now and awning/caravan survived the heavy rain so nice and dry when we arrived. Sun shinning again now so off for a dip in the pool
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We got back early afternoon from a lovely weekend away in the van at Ayr Craigie Gardens club site weather wasn’t great but it was good to get away again didn’t do much yesterday SWMBO had bought a dvd the pilgrimage of Harold fry so we watched that last night excellent film and we had been to a lot of the places they filmed at. Easy half hour tow home today got the van washed and cleaned out ready for the off again at the end of the week a 9 night break in Yorkshire. Looks like our Indian summer is over though it’s been cold and rainy here for the past few days we even had to put the fire on today when we got home first time it’s been on for months.
Hope everyone else is having a nice weekend
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- It was a busy day yesterday at the Cathedral as it was Heritage Open Day. 3 of us were on duty giving ground floor tours in the morning and we were all fully booked (15 people on each tour). It was great fun but I was tired by the end of it. There were also tower tours and tours of the precincts and the Cathedral library was also open. The bell ringers also did a 3 hour full peel which must have been a bit of a challenge for those doing the tower tours! It was very warm and sunny yesterday and again this morning but this afternoon clouded over and a breeze has sprung up. Rain is now forecast.
- Glad you are enjoying Devon Rufs. Hope the weather isn't too bad for you this week.
- Lovely photo of the steam train nellie. We had a lovely day on the Poppy Line when we were on holiday in the area in June.
PS sorry about the bullet points! 🤔
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That sounds gorgeous DEBSC. I suppose we may have seen something similar. At Lyme you can try on various period costumes, rather like you saw. Some lovely outfits too. OH was asked by a group of Americans to take their photograph, 3 ladies all in costume and 3 smart gentlemen, well, smartish as they were all in trainers which ruined the look a bit, and one lad had long shorts on, with a top hat and tails!! No we didn’t participate ourselves.
Well done on your Cathedral tours Milliehull. We like being part of tours, so much information that we may be unlikely find out for ourselves I can see why you must have been so tired afterwards though.
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What a lovely photo milliehull.
I had several venues in mind for yesterday for Heritage Weekend and a village show. Did none of them a change, a few days ago, of blood pressure pills has upset my equilibrium 😢. Spaced out and bloated, felt so poorly yesterday I tested myself for covid....
Lovely day today with son and family. Lunch, nap - no thanks said 2.5 year old, and dinner. Decided not to take bp pill, and have felt fine. Time for another conversation with GP.
Been lovely Indian Summer here. Changing today. Cloudy mid morning onwards, but 2 loads of washing dried.
Interesting dog walk mid afternoon 2 dogs, son and toddler on a tricycle..... Half hour out few big spots of rain so headed home - so far it's come to nothing. Severe weather alert until 6am but local.weather only says rain anytime soon. 🤞for a quiet night, but the air pressure is hurting my ears at the moment.
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A day trip by MH with family and friends who I grew up with (my cousin and our MH is on the right) to Pisa yesterday and the traditional pics taken. I thought it would be more fun to make the tower look straight?
Still hot at 30C each day but expected to cool down to 25C by the end of the week.
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Just booked our Autumn Covid jabs for tomorrow at the Open University. Considering the ease at which the bookings were made I don't think many have yet got the message? You can book here if you qualify https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/covid-19/covid-19-vaccination/getting-a-covid-19-vaccine/
David
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Just done the same David - and we will be getting our flu jabs at the same time. Different experience though. There was glitch and our local pharmacy wasn't included in the list when the dates were released this morning (I knew they would be released today - our pharmacy forewarned us!). Kept checking every 15 minutes or so until it finally appeared but even then, the earliest date I could get was 10 October. Looks like a lot of people in Hornsea were doing exactly the same as me!
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I have tried to book our Covid jab today but our nearest is 10 miles away. Not the end of the world but we have managed it much nearer previously. We have our flu vaccine booked for the 17th October at our Doctor’s surgery and they say they may offer the Covid vaccine at the same time depending on supply. It’s just me I know but I would just prefer to have a small gap between jabs. OH had both together last year and was fine. I’ll check it out again in a day or two and maybe more places will become available.
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