Updatetastic

Face: not so itchy, has stopped swelling, is very red and bumpy and skin in crap condition. Suspect it will flake and scab etc. like last time but at least I avoided the swelling like a melon and then sagging afterwards stage. Small mercies eh?!

Leaving Middlewick: quite teary actually. Big hugs with Jill, Jonathan, Shirley, Kathleen and Norman (Jonathan’s Mum & Dad). Offers to go back any time, no need to be working guests, could come as friends etc. Wonder if this will happen at every host, so far it’s been a 3 out of 3 occurance…

Journey to next host: 90 miles, mostly along the M5. Willow started each time, ran really well and despite Ady getting all stressy when we hit the red line on the petrol gauge and pulled off into Exeter to find a petrol station (cue me looking at ‘nearest’ on satnav and being convinced it was Steve & Sarah’s place – do you sell fuel?) all was well. We did then pay super high services prices per litre and as Ady was so relieved to have found somewhere he rather giddily filled it up – 63 quid eek! and then we were all starving so got lunch from M&S services – another 9 quid further eek.

Arrival at next hosts: I’ve rather messed this woman about, asking if we could arrive early, emailing to say we didn’t need to arrive early after all, ringing to say actually could we now arrive late, but she wreaked her revenge today by not actually being here to meet us! We found the place, knocked on the door to no reply and then her husband appeared on his tractor to say ‘the missus ain’t here right now, I don’t really deal with all this. Can you sleep in your van, I can’t do no cooking like’. He directed us to the field next door where they have 5 hook up and water pitches for caravans and chemical loo disposal but no other facilities and told us to take our pick of pitches. We did and the views are stunning, we can even see the sea through a gap in the hills. He then reappeared to offer us a cup of tea, looking very hopeful we’d say no and said his wife will be back tomorrow, he thinks we’ll be staying in the big farmhouse with his inlaws and did we need anything. Ady assured him we’d be fine for tonight and would wait to meet his wife tomorrow. So we’ve caught up online, had food from our emergency tinned supply, watched a gorgeous sunset, read a couple of stories from the kindle to the kids and enjoyed being back in the van and on track for our adventures.

Reconnecting as a four: interesting chats, some of which made it onto WW blog posts. Davies wanted to know about plants and people and oxygen and carbon dioxide further to a conversation we started but didn’t properly finish the other day so I googled and came up with this little gem. Yay, still feel like I do Home Educate after all ;).

On being Inspirational: Thanks to reading Merry’s blog I’ve discovered the WW blog is nominated for something on some blogging award thing, highly entertained it has ‘inspirational’ in the title – which one of you did that as a joke then?! 😉