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.. →
Harrogate welcomes the world – UCI Cycling World Championship
Given that I had intended being away when this event came to town, and based back in Longridge, Lancashire again, I had decided not to put my brain to the task of understanding the week’s schedule and how best to navigate the major road closures, as well as where to sofa-surf or driveway camp.. →
Unplanned early return & tears for brexit
Just 2 weeks after I wrote the post on the ferry heading for Calais, I am writing again on the ferry in the other direction, heading home early due to family illness.
In Switzerland I was hedging my onward options due to the situation – not wanting to travel further east and south –.. →
“Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth” Horace
I am currently in my second swiss campsite following my friend in her campervan, where the above quote is pinned up. Yesterday I arrived at the first campsite at Davos Rinerhof at 1500m after 3 hours of driving through pouring rain, following a night of pouring rain, and feeling the same ridiculous.. →