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Hi Peops,
Hello everyone! Oh, its just you is it...oh well, this blog will be more intimate than I thought...
We have just failed to check-in on line and a voucher spewed out telling us we must report to the desk, so feeling like a pair a terrorist we did and it was a piece of cake afterall (we promised to remove it from our luggage!).
Had an eventful Saturday disposing of Van (aka 'Gloria')- had to drive from Leeds to Ilkeston to the storage depot to park it up for 5 months but sans tax & insurance due to expiry last week, but hey, its only this one journey and so minimum risk. This logic was not commensurate to the nervousness we felt. This became justified as 10 minutes into the journey the Van lost power on the A58 and so we pulled into a pub car park and had to call the AA. Apparently the pipe to the turbo had come off and it took the AA man two minutes to put it back on. It took Leigh and I a little longer to recover! I knew today had not got off to a good start when having poured the milk on my muesli I observed on the packet it read, 'Use by 19th Sept' - today, Saturday was 30.09.06!!! I settled for toast after that!
At storage depot (which was a complete pain to find our designated slot) Leigh observed that 'perhaps we should empty the water tank as could freeze over in winter'. 'good idea' I replied. Alas, the tap to release would not budge. The only option was to empty it manually but the only vessel that would fit in the hole at its top was a small cup. Luckily for us we had two of these so a frantic relay system was set up. A few hundred exchanges of these later, and at least an hour, and the tank was almost empty. Fed up we abandoned Gloria and set off for Hollington for Lisa's wedding dress to take to Bury St Edmunds via Kim and Maion's with our bikes for storage. From Hollington to Toyota Island before we realized we had forgotten the wedding dress, so back we went to Hollington. Leigh whistling a cheerful tune by now! At Kim's we were consoled by the fact that his son, Simon had sold our water heater on ebay for £100.00. So, he gave us £100.00 cash - which will come in handy. Thanks Simon!
A good weekend with Ben and Lisa and Loretta & Phil at Bury St Edmunds - nice and sunny, and finally on MOnday morning Lisa drove us to the station. Leigh morose having taken his leave of Chester and Alfie. To mark this farewell we took them out for walks twice that morning, one walk at 6.15 am and the next at 9.15am. Bye bye doggies!
Arrived Travel Lodge yesterday all according to plan and then met up with Sam and Gill for some London Pride and a very cheerful Greek meal in Marylebone.
And now we are here at the LHR. Anyone still reading? Oh, the only single reader has already lost the Will to live, I see. Ah well, must do better next time. Yup, there will be a next time.
Thanks for having us. No time for amendmens to script as money is running out. Infact one eye on screen and one eye on diminishing returns in bottom left of screen.
New York here we come! We arrive 7pm this evening and we depart from there on Friday to Philadelphia to see Nigel, Fiona and Roman.
THANKS!
Rita
Hello everyone! Oh, its just you is it...oh well, this blog will be more intimate than I thought...
We have just failed to check-in on line and a voucher spewed out telling us we must report to the desk, so feeling like a pair a terrorist we did and it was a piece of cake afterall (we promised to remove it from our luggage!).
Had an eventful Saturday disposing of Van (aka 'Gloria')- had to drive from Leeds to Ilkeston to the storage depot to park it up for 5 months but sans tax & insurance due to expiry last week, but hey, its only this one journey and so minimum risk. This logic was not commensurate to the nervousness we felt. This became justified as 10 minutes into the journey the Van lost power on the A58 and so we pulled into a pub car park and had to call the AA. Apparently the pipe to the turbo had come off and it took the AA man two minutes to put it back on. It took Leigh and I a little longer to recover! I knew today had not got off to a good start when having poured the milk on my muesli I observed on the packet it read, 'Use by 19th Sept' - today, Saturday was 30.09.06!!! I settled for toast after that!
At storage depot (which was a complete pain to find our designated slot) Leigh observed that 'perhaps we should empty the water tank as could freeze over in winter'. 'good idea' I replied. Alas, the tap to release would not budge. The only option was to empty it manually but the only vessel that would fit in the hole at its top was a small cup. Luckily for us we had two of these so a frantic relay system was set up. A few hundred exchanges of these later, and at least an hour, and the tank was almost empty. Fed up we abandoned Gloria and set off for Hollington for Lisa's wedding dress to take to Bury St Edmunds via Kim and Maion's with our bikes for storage. From Hollington to Toyota Island before we realized we had forgotten the wedding dress, so back we went to Hollington. Leigh whistling a cheerful tune by now! At Kim's we were consoled by the fact that his son, Simon had sold our water heater on ebay for £100.00. So, he gave us £100.00 cash - which will come in handy. Thanks Simon!
A good weekend with Ben and Lisa and Loretta & Phil at Bury St Edmunds - nice and sunny, and finally on MOnday morning Lisa drove us to the station. Leigh morose having taken his leave of Chester and Alfie. To mark this farewell we took them out for walks twice that morning, one walk at 6.15 am and the next at 9.15am. Bye bye doggies!
Arrived Travel Lodge yesterday all according to plan and then met up with Sam and Gill for some London Pride and a very cheerful Greek meal in Marylebone.
And now we are here at the LHR. Anyone still reading? Oh, the only single reader has already lost the Will to live, I see. Ah well, must do better next time. Yup, there will be a next time.
Thanks for having us. No time for amendmens to script as money is running out. Infact one eye on screen and one eye on diminishing returns in bottom left of screen.
New York here we come! We arrive 7pm this evening and we depart from there on Friday to Philadelphia to see Nigel, Fiona and Roman.
THANKS!
Rita
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