Had a bit of a lie in this morning although living in a van the size of a boxroom with three other people means no one gets to lie in much. Ady did some van tidying, the kids sat in the sunshine watching the sheep and I had some laptop time then we packed up and drove to Street, a nearby town that has an outlet shopping village place too. After a couple of false starts on boots I decided I really needed some decent workboots and there happens to be a Dickies outlet at this place so we headed there.
We parked up and had a wander round the high street first, sent Ady’s tablet back (it rather terminally crashed the other evening and so after a phonecall to the seller yesterday it’s gone back to be replaced) at the post office, did a circuit of the charity shops, got lunch at the bakers and then got me some boots from Dickies – I got these ones reduced to £50 which I thought was pretty good. Hopefully there will end my boot saga for the year.
Willow was playing up again with the clutch slipping so we looked online and found a Halfords nearby and limped there for supplies of fluid and self sealing liquid for it. She seems okay now so fingers crossed for the next big leg of the journey next week. While we were in Wells we wandered round the charity shops there too and also popped into a little games shop where Davies found a psp Wall:E game he’d been after and I spotted Plants Vs Zombies now out for DS so the kids went half each on that to share.
We left there and headed to Jill’s as we’d arranged to see her for a proper goodbye. We had a really nice few hours with her (her and I sunk a couple of bottles of wine) chatting and eating dinner before leaving before it was too dark to get Willow resettled back at the hosts.
Davies and Scarlett went up to bed, Ady and I watched Apprentice on iplayer and then some clips from Sorry I’ve got no Head – we are all loving the ‘thousand pounds’ ladies clips from that and watching them on youtube, it’s our new family catchphrase :).
Yesterday evening my face was starting to feel a bit rough and today I woke with it puffy and red. It’s not particularly itchy which I imagine is thanks to the daily antihistimines I am taking, still a bit of a nightmare though and fingers firmly crossed it does not escalate further.