What are you all up to

It was minus 3 degrees when I set off this morning. Drove into freezing fog and it dropped to minus 6 degrees.

Brrrrrrrr!

Woke up to our third morning of frost and mist. Looks as if last night's was the most severe. Mist was taking ages to clear, unlike yesterday when the sun appeared above the mist early on, so temperature stayed below freezing all the time we were preparing to leave CL. Drove through some quite thick mist patches in the Frome Valley and more when we crossed the Severn. Arrived on our new CL at noon to find that all the taps are frozen and outside temperature was still at 0. Steve, the owner, took OH in for a coffee while I set up and then filled our water barrels from inside the house while we sorted out the inside of the van and I took Flyte for a walk. The haw frost eventually disappeared from the ground about 4:00pm when it clouded up, but it's still cold. Just hope that the water's running tomorrow as I don't want to keep bothering Steve in the house.

Been a busy couple of days for us been doing a lot of work on the house we rent out almost finished now. SWMBO has her sister visiting tomorrow night so a night diwn at the snooker club is beckoning for me lol

A very foggy day here, jobs done, grandchild returned to parents, a bit quiet without him but no longer having to climb over sofa cushions! Hope you all have a good weekend. 

Kids and Gkids now left after a full afternoon and evening, why do I suddenly feel old. Younger brother skype'd from Malta while they were here so they all managed a good chat and laugh, its been a long time since we've all been together.

Weather still mild here, hope the freezing fog is letting up down south.

Another misty day, but after a frost in the night, the temperature's risen somewhat. Son and partner came over to the van and we all went out for a meal at a local hostelry. As they are moving house early next month they couldn't stay overlong...too much work to do... but it was great to see them again. Hopefully we'll have clear weather tomorrow.

Spent the afternoon at DD's working on converting a kitchen cupboard to deep pan drawers.  Went well  but slowly, so have to go back tomorrow once I have made the drawer backs.

While I was slaving away, OH and DD went out to look at Stressless recliners and have found  a few they liked.  Next thing they ring me to go and look at a VW Touareg they had found at the dealer just down the road.

Good spec, good price, just what we need to replace the XC90, pre-registered by the dealer so 4 months old, only 10 miles on the clock, we are going back on Tuesday for a test drive of a similar model.  Very tempted!

I had a busy morning. Firstly, I went to Tesco Pharmacy to collect my prescription medicines. Then I went to the Smart Service dept in Portslade, Brighton where they set up a service plan for three years at £20 per month. After that I went to the Worthing town centre. I used the Grafton Road car park and had to go right to the top level 10 to find a parking space. I then had to walk down to level 7 to get to the lift. As there was a long queue, I decided to use the stairs to get down to level one which is the first floor of Marks and Spencers. I bought some new pyjamas and handkerchieves whilst there and then went to the food store on the ground floor where I bought Paella and the TV times for the new year programmes.

After that, I got the lift up to the car park, went to the pay machine, paid the fee by card and then drove back home to the caravan.

It was foggy all day so I had an afternoon in the caravan which was warm and comfortable with the heating on.

It's all gone a bit quiet here. Yesterday the last of the family visitors went home. All that's left behind are a dog bowl (forgotten) and dog hairs on the carpet (not picked up by Grandson's vacuuming).

Kjell, has the tempting Touareg scuppered your thoughts of a motorhome?

i guess most MHers dont have such a large car as this as a second vehicle, although your weather situation is diffierent where you are...

we now have a tiny Fiat 500 for zipping about...