Thursday 16th July 2020 Day 114
6.30 The alarm rings because I forgot to stop it from yesterday when I needed to get up early. I don’t get up straight away because I have been thinking about motorhomes and camper vans and thinking what a great way to travel. I could visit friends around the country and not have to put them to the bother of having to put me up. It’s a funny thing, having people to stay, however much you are looking forward to it and however nice a time you all have together, with the best will in the world, there is always that relief factor when they go, mixed with a tinge of sadness of course if it is someone you don’t see very often.
So back to bed with a cup of tea and a pesky cat climbing all over me and I start looking at motor homes. I just can’t believe what I am seeing, £365,000 for what essentially is a caravan on wheels! Obviously, that is top of the range, which is what they have decided I would like to see first. I’d love to see inside one, diamond encrusted gas cooker maybe?
Several pages later and we are getting down to the nitty gritty £3.500 for ‘Our dearly loved Popsy who has taken us all over the world and is still in fabulous condition’. Apparently Popsy has many new mod cons including the drop down bed and a fridge and in case you might forget her ‘endearing’ name! It is written in big black letters all over her white body, reminding me of and elderly Friesian cow. Not bad, I think, praps a respray and a change of name and then I see the mileage – 175k, the clue I now realise was in the ‘taken us all over the world’ twice, I should imagine.
7.30 I think I’ll get up now and maybe come back to this later but as I start to go out of Google my eye falls on ‘conversion kits for vans’. Something to think about.
12.20 Just back from our walk where Audrey has performed her magic ball trick once again. Lose the ball we took with us and then half a mile later, present me with another almost identical one, maybe one she lost earlier, who knows? But it’s a clever trick.
I must get on with gardening today and not just keep thinking about it. In the greenhouse my Chinese mystery plants are still growing fast and I hear my neighbour Richard in his garden and ask him to come and see if he can tell what they are. He takes one look and informs me that they are small ridge cucumbers and then shows me one that is growing and I had completely missed. So, there we are, problem solved, nothing exotic, nothing drug related which I was even beginning to wonder, just plain little cucumbers!
4.30 Tonight I am going to my writers’ group as usual but this time a little different, no zoom meeting, we are meeting in the flesh!! Well plus clothes of course! In Lewes. I am really looking forward to meeting up with the gang for an hour or two and feeling a bit normal.
Oh great idea… but either way Mrs you could still stay here. Would be lovely to see you xxxxx
Julie that’s so kind, I would love to. Remembering when you took me to Liverpool on the ferry over the Mersey xx