Thelma & Louise go Place in the Sun
LOOKING FOR A NEEDLE …….. FRANCE IS BIG
It didn’t take long for my sister Sandie & I to be reminded of the above! She had decided also to come to France in her van (we like to think of ourselves as T & L, but I’m never quite sure which one I am) and join me.. →
Something new & French shores once more
Twinwood Festival
A first for me and van attending a music festival which more than exceeded my hopes. It didn’t pour down for the whole time, so the van was never at risk of getting mud-bound. It was all the better to be able to share the enjoyment with my daughter and son-in-law,.. →
Here’s hoping – resumption of life & travels beyond the UK
Since finishing work at the end of March ’21 I have enjoyed travels in England including to favourite haunts within 2 hours of here – the Lake District and Silverdale/Arnside – as well as down in June to Salcombe & Brixham in South Devon, onto a few days in the New Forest, and.. →
Pipe & Slipper Beckoning?
Today is the first day of my life outside of permanent employment, which I describe as semi-retirement. The past 6 months of work has been ‘something else’. I want to record here, that I was part of the NHS Digital and multiple other org team which built the Covid Vaccination National.. →
2020 Roundup
Goodbye says it all
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New Chapter: New Dwellings
Time to record some changes with a post as I sit in my new, used, home on wheels, with its few-days maiden testing voyage to the sunny climes of Norfolk having been successfully achieved.
I have finally downsized, parting with my beloved 7m Monte2 in exchange for a 6m Citroen Relay-based van.. →
Coronavirus Goodbye
Whatever hopes and plans I may have had for 2020, beyond being with Mum for the time she had left, they certainly didn’t anticipate being impacted by a global pandemic.
The shadow of Covid-19 turned into ‘social isolation’, just 10 days or so after Mum died and what a blessing.. →
End of Waiting
This time of waiting is now over, as I and my brother and sisters said a final goodbye to our Mum who’d fought a 6-month battle against relapsed cancer, just as my career break ends and I re-start work back at my employer tomorrow.
As I look through the window, the sun is shining,.. →
Pride comes before …
My first trip away, since 3 days in beautiful North Wales in October, is the 6-mth awaited week’s skiing in La Thuile in Italy’s Aosta valley, just through the Mont Blanc tunnel past Courmayeur.
Day one skiing was my first time on skis for about 7 years. With some trepidation, but.. →