Yantan Posted June 22, 2019 Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 I made a post and thought I'd pressed send but apparently not as it's disappeared! Ruby drove to Ambleside this morning to meet a pal for coffee but on the way home her car started playing up. She thinks the clutch is going. By the time she got home there was a smell of burning. So we'll have to go to York in my little Fiat Panda. It won't know what's hit it! Ruby's sat-nav is integrated into her dashboard so cannot be removed. We were thinking we would have to revive now rusty map reading skills when Archie's beloved auntie Jan offered us the loan of their portable sat-nav - hurrah! I went round to collect it earlier and could hardly breathe with my asthma by the time I got back. The heat definitely impacts on it. Still I have 3 more days of steroids to take so hopefully they will have fully kicked in for our mini-holiday. Oh and as Ruby was walking to the cafe her foot started hurting her and she's now limping! I was telling Jan of the Sat-nav that our first stop in York would be the Motability Shop & she quipped that we wouldn't be Girls On Tour but Girls On Zimmers. I reckon that'll be about right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackmagic Posted June 22, 2019 Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 Had a glorious warm day today for a change. We took the dogs to the beach.Normally we get the beach to ourselves but the North Coast 550 has resulted in it being invaded by tourists and surfers. There were many camping in the car park and in the dunes. The gravel road is now full of large potholes with all the extra traffic. Roll on September when they all go home and we get our beaches and roads back. At present they are full of camper vans, motorbikes and cyclists. I bought a couple of very healthy looking plants in tesco yesterday so have planted them out. The forecast is for heavy rain and thunder and lightning starting in the south of England and moving north tomorrow onto Monday so they will get well watered in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantan Posted June 22, 2019 Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 You have my sympathies black magic. I know what it's like to be faced with invasions like that. There was one cycle challenge going on here one year that really clashed with local inhabitants. A small village was a half way point where feeding stations were set up for the cyclists. Friends & families of the cyclists came by car to meet them and parked across people's drives, front doors, on corners, narrowed roads so nothing other than a small car could get by and then, to top it all, the mainly elderly congregation coming out of the local chapel faced a row of cyclists urinating up against the field wall opposite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griff Posted June 22, 2019 Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 (edited) Omg... that's dreadful peeing by a church!! I used to live in ingoldmells and it was great just pre season, things were opening up again but the locals were the only people there, then the season began and that was it.....hell!! Brawls, buses that were packed and not being able to get into your local pub let alone the 3am arguments.... Steve always says he wants to live by the coast, I said it sounds lovely until you do it an get the tourists Edited June 22, 2019 by griff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eve Posted June 22, 2019 Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 Set to be in the 30's from tomorrow onwards. You may never hear from me again lol. It makes me laugh with the sat navs Yantan. I am totally reliant on mine nowadays. And we get told, don't adjust them while you're driving, don't look at your phone. Not that many years since we were driving with OS maps on our laps or Google maps a bit later on. Never got told not to look at them lol. Hope the foster has settle in Jazz. Fancy doing the North Coast 500 Blackmagic. But we'll do bits of it off season and not be that annoying tourist, promise lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazz Posted June 22, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 hes settled in no problem. they are back next weekend to give the keys in. if they have found somewhere to rent on the isle of wight, they will take him back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzeanna Posted June 22, 2019 Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 Glad he's settled in well Jazz. Yantan, we don't have satnav but Philip's phone has a holder attached to the side of the windscreen and he types in the postcode of where we need to be and it talks to you. It was a godsend when I had to drive him down to central London at 3am to get his eye looked at, I'd have been hopelessly lost without it! Hope your chest and Ruby's foot clear up quickly. Can you get tandem wheelchairs?😉 Hope the thunderstorms go away by Wednesday, or we might have to cancel our planned trip. No point in going all that way if we can't get out of the flipping car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazz Posted June 22, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 his teeth are rotten. one has fallen out 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griff Posted June 22, 2019 Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 Awwww bless him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazz Posted June 23, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2019 morning all. badger slept ok. makes a racket, but so overweight it restricts that and even trying to lift his leg for a wee. he didn't eat much breakfast did you see it on the news about 2 fighter planes escorting a plane back to Stansted airport? we felt the sonic boom, twice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazz Posted June 23, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2019 its not a tooth, its a nail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazz Posted June 23, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2019 was going to take merlin and mouse out, but kevin barking high pitch and badger howling, that cant happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantan Posted June 23, 2019 Report Share Posted June 23, 2019 Poor Badger. Ruby's foot is all bruised this morning. She doesn't know how it happened. She was just walking and suddenly noticed a bit of pain in her foot which got worse as she kept in walking. Suzeanna we are going to need those tandem wheel chairs at this rate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazz Posted June 23, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2019 you can get a tandem disabled scooter lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantan Posted June 23, 2019 Report Share Posted June 23, 2019 It's funny getting ready to go away and not be putting the dog things out to pack. I was saying "'Oh we'll never fit everything into the Panda" but Ruby reminded me it was the dog's stuff that used to take up all the room plus the dogs themselves taking up the back seat. We've got ready in no time! Is every one feeling the heat? Anyone got the rain and thunder that's been forecast? The humidity is rising here and the sky has greyed over so we might be in for some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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