All about the plugging in

This morning Ady was up with the sun, which actually isn’t really *that* early but a couple of hours earlier than I was up! He sat on the bench next to Willow with his cup of coffee and the camera while the rest of us slept on.

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Once up and breakfasted and van returned to a van instead of a bedroom and dead mouse disposed of (I resist using the words good clean kill, mostly because there was blood splattered but I am sure it died very quickly) we were ready to set off.

We were back at our campsite, the only one we’ve actually used since Rosemarkie, now our third visit, by 11am. I had a shower, we passed two loads of washing on to the owner to take advantage of their wash and dry a load for a fiver offer which if not cheaper than the laundrette certainly saves on finding one, parking and hanging around for it and we got everything plug in, filled up and emptied in appropriate manner.

The kids watched a couple of dvds, I blogged, found the way to reboot Ady’s tablet which had crashed and we then spent way too long trying to work out a way to link it to a google account so he could download apps that wasn’t already linked to a different phone we also use for downloading apps. That involved far too much faffing about.

Ady cooked a delicious campervan roast dinner – we’d got a joint of pork reduced yesterday so he cut that up and roasted it along with potatoes, a reduced bag of fresh veg and gravy. Washed down with cider or coke. We do miss our roast dinners.

We ate dinner watching Autumnwatch which was fab, slightly disturbing seeing Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan together on TV looking so much older than I remember them from their Really Wild Show days, although of course in my day Chris was presenting with Terry and Nicola. Ooh have wondered idly for years if Nicola Davies the author was the same Nicola Davies the presenter and she is. So still just the one famous namesake then 😉

After dinner we had more lazing around with electronic things before setting the bed up and having stories and hot chocolate. We had planned to meet Lynda and Stuart next weekend in Fort William and have found out today they have booked a holiday cottage for the week, called Wanderers End which sleeps six and as they only need for 3 nights we are welcome to stay in for the week. This rather takes the pressure off fuel costs for our final week and even has a bath! As ever the kindness and generosity of them blows me away, they treat us like beloved family 🙂

Tomorrow we’ll hang on here til about 3pm ish, make sure we do some walking in the nearby area to stave off lethargy and then head to the layby near StromeFerry (No Ferry) we have earmarked for tomorrow’s overnight stop off.