What are you all up to

Best wishes to all those not so well. 

Motorhome has passed its MOT again. Another year beckons.........

We gave a lift to a young French student this morning, the village bus had conked out and he was due to catch a train. He'd been living in our local commune style -alternative- farming -never have a wash again-it's fun in the summer-shack in the woods group. Lucklily he just smelt of woodsmoke and was moving on to Devon, but he came from the high Alps and was finding the southwest a bit damp. It was nice to have a chat as he was an agronomy student looking at alternative farming ideas, I think he might have found some alternative ideas are only good in nice weather....Anyway we enjoyed meeting him and later had to apologise to the vet as during our chat about the Alps we lost an hour and ran out of time ourselves! 

Much better day today, both weather and health wise

MillieH, glad to hear OH scans are going well. Bad weather up here at this time of year is something we just live with, it will settle down in a couple of weeks, then we will just be cold 

Another day of doing jobs in the house, the garden is far too wet at the moment and its damp cold outside so I don't want to spend any longer than I have to outside just now, as I seem to be getting over the worst of my cold.

So more de-cluttering of cupboards and drawers, its the kitchens turn today so as well as getting rid of things I don't use/need they are all getting a good clean as well.

OH on the other hand has been outside for most of the day playing with his new toy. Now that we have gone back to a caravan we have gone back to a portable satellite dish and tripod for when we are over there.

He's always been quite good at getting a signal but as he is getting older he is getting less patient. He recognises this which is good, so he has invested in a bit of kit that is supposed to enable him to lock onto the signal easier.

So far so good on Astra 2, now playing with setting it up on Intel 907 which we use in Spain. He tried it with the 65cm dish but found out we need the 85cm dish even here to get a picture.  Dish now changed to 85cm and success he has got the channels we wanted to get  that's another job done ready for next year. 

Over the winter months we will also record lots of series/films off the tv onto a portable hard drive which we can then plug into the tv just in case we be unable to receive a signal. Having something to watch in the long dark evenings when away in winter, is something we like to have.

Oh well that's my teabreak over must get back to work

Been a day of dead ends today!!! We set out for Elite Motorhomes at Middleton Cheney, near Banbury,  only to find the the A422 closed at village before. Stupidly I had not packed a road atlas and the diversions were not that clear. We decided to avert our journey and head back to MK. On the way back we thought we would divert through the village of Tingewick which was bypassed many years ago only to find that road road closed as well!! Complete failure!!!

David

Oh dear David, not a good day, the bridge at Farthinghoe has been closed for quite a while, not due to reopen until Christmas at the earliest.  From Farthinghoe you have to divert towards Greatworth and Marston St Lawrence to get to the Welsh Lane (B4525) which goes to Middleton Cheney. It has caused a lot of problems especially with HGV's which have been diverted via the M40. 

I feel sympathy for you David too. When we set off on our latest trip we were met with a road block on our main access to the M5, we spent an hour trying to find a way through miles of narrow country lanes.

Millie pleased that MrH's scan results have been good,  I bet the nurse wouldn't have been impressed with him if she'd known what he'd been up to clearing the garden!  Trevor is now feeling a bit better and he keeps sneaking off to the garage to work on Daffy, I keep telling him not to do too much.

Weather has been very mild and sunny, not usual for November. long may it last. 

Had a quieter week at work so far, caught up with lots of filing, a job I dislike. Booked some training in the hope I will be able to understand the new digital system for vat returns next April.

Lovely sunny day in West Norfolk went by bus into Lynn now takes shorter route 18mins,did a bit of food shopping after a quick look round, new earrings for OH after "losing?"one then back to site,  guess what , then found "lost "earring

Have been keeping Rosa on her lead when out walking as Sandringham was/is a hotspot for the dreaded dog disease ,warden advises they have had some frosts so could be clear for this year

Ps, update on "next"booking system upgrade, different pitch prices and "some"deposits, 

Came across a new memorial in the village of Long Itchington, near Leamington Spa today. It was at the start of a nice 6+ mile walk across countryside and back along the Union canal towpath. The memorial was only completed a month ago. The inscription is particularly moving and I'm trying to include a photo of it. You'll need to enlarge it to read the moving poem. I don't have a resizing app on this very old android laptop so if it doesn't work I'll post it again when we get back home.