October 2024 - Days out in the Campervan

We'd booked the half term holidays before our daughter died and I'm glad now we had. At first I just wanted to cancel everything. Our friends tentatively skirted around their upcoming visit, but we said, please come.

We ended up spending a lot of time in the van back and forth to Gloucester to sort out our daughter's affairs. It's a 50 mile round trip and we had 4 airport runs in a week with Gatwick and Birmingham. We shared the driving and it was great to be able to stretch out on the back seats.

During half term I had intended to spend 2 nights in the van in the Forest of Dean visiting family and friends, dropping off Halloween gifts and catching up with everyone. I still did the visits, but over 2 days instead of 3 and I slept at my friends house rather than 2 nights on a camp site. In needed the company rather than the solitude as I'd been off work for some time.

Our Friends visited from Germany for a couple of days and we had a few days out.

Then we headed off to Northern Ireland on the ferry, crossing from Liverpool to Belfast for 4 days to visit our Grandson.

We brought one of sons dogs back with us as our son is away and with a 3 year old and an older dog, it was getting a bit much with the dark, wet and cold mornings and to be honest it is going to big a big help to us to have have something to look after till the middle of December when our son gets home, especially as Peter is away for 3 weeks. I'm looking forward to long early morning walks. I do miss having Bob around and our son and his wife helped us out with our dog many times during covid having him for several months so I could return to Dubai before we returned to the UK full time.

I'm pleased to report the cat and dog are getting on even if it is on the cat's terms and we're both wary of the cat, as there is still a lot of hissing from her. Bailey has been told it's her own fault as she will insist on following her.