Wow! it’s nearly 3 weeks since we arrived back in the UK and that time has really raced by. We’ve split our time between my parents, (which works well for Rach as her folks aren’t far away) & my brothers house further south. When we first arrived the weather was a bit hit and miss which thwarted my early plans to attack my parents garden, but not for too long and after a good week or so I’ve pretty much finished and it’ll be nice for them to sit during the summer. We’re also making headway with the healthcare “bits and bobs” and have put things in place to help make things easier for both sets of parents, we’ve also got my mum driving again after over 40 years, well Rachel has, as neither my brother, or I have that level of patience! Over the first part of the jubilee weekend we were invited to spend the weekend with Jon & Jo (I can’t believe that they’re not fed up with us yet) the weather was great so we took Ossie for some long early morning walks, followed by some lazy afternoons with great food and banter. Jon had convinced me to enter a poker tournament with him, that ended up lasting into the wee hours, but at least one of us came away a winner. On Saturday we left Jon & Jo’s to take an old friend out for lunch in Eversley which went down well and later that afternoon we headed over to Cobham to see Rachel and Keith, where we spent the afternoon catching up, before heading out for an entertaining dinner at a gastro-pub, which was very good indeed. Before turning in, Keith had talked me into going for a cycle. So the following drizzly morning we headed out on what Keith had said would be a gentle 22 mile cycle around the Surrey hills (mercifully only the flat bits) I’ve never cycled with cleats before, so I was excused for collapsing into a bush at a junction after having un-cleated the wrong foot!….Nevertheless it was great fun, even if I was a little sore afterwards.
Dream Chasers 