Due North - Part 1

So £700-someodd later and Bear and I have made it out if Surrey, around the M25 and approximately 175km up the M1 to find ourselves in Staffordshire.

In a tent.

In the rain.

Details, you ask? Well. After the big mess that was my MOT and subsequent garage visit (thank you ever so much to an amazing mechanic who was a huge help) we managed to get the car in for the MOT recheck just as the shop was closing. Fab timing! We then hopped straight onto the A3 to the M25 and headed north. What a beautiful day we'd been having!

Sheep on the way to the camp site

That is, until the last 30 minutes of our journey. That's when the heavens decided to open and we turned to each other with a look of dread.

At which time we started to discuss the roadside motels as a superior alternative accomodation. Especially when my Sat Nav decided to take us on a crazy route to get to the site (one can't get lost with a Sat Nav, surely!)

Some of our stuff in the tent

But, alas, we decided to drive on to the campsite anyway where we were met by a pair of brilliant hosts who have been nothing but kind and full if helpful advice -

More stuff

like parking the car at an uphill angle so it doesn't settle overnight and we shouldn't be stuck in the morning.

Dessert - classy!

C and I set up the tent - at 10:30pm! - in a light shower and are now to be found happily within with full bellies and ready for sleep.

So good night, dear readers!


~Crown

Aunty Gilly and the 7 Plasterers

Hi Ho, Hi Ho it's off to work we go... well not really for the crown and I, but definitely, for the 7(!) plasterers currently working in Aunty G and J's living room. It seemed as though all of them have piled in and all you can now hear from the kitchen is the bass of the radio and the chatter of  people working. Today we head up to Scotland and I'm really excited to go back to Edinburgh! I know a few people who don't particularly like the place, but I happen to love it there, particularly for the architecture. We'll be driving up and it looks like we might be doing some camping along the way up and possibly again on our way back down before we head over to Portugal next week.

The last week has positively flow by and I have done quite a lot. I don't know if it was the smartest idea to try and fit this all in in a mere six weeks, but hey, we're going to give it a good go!

Cheers,

C