Audrey to Richard: To think that Grantleigh is in the hands of a man who has no interest in farming, doesn't go to church and now, it turns out, hasn't even heard of Winnie-The-Pooh. You think A.A. Milne is a motoring organisation, I suppose. That was just another opportunity to use my pointless super power... Continue Reading →

On we go, into a grey and drizzly day, but that was fine by me. We called into good ol’ Sainsbury’s to pick up some travel supplies and that’s where I saw another fine example of the small, special little things, that we don’t have at home, but I think are wonderful. In this case,... Continue Reading →

What a spectacular morning - crisp, clear, crisp, blue sky, crisp, did I mention CRISP!? Another very cold one, but gorgeous. After seeing Wickham in the dark yesterday, we took off to see this little village in daylight and for Steve to do some shimmying up the family tree, well not quite, but almost. We’re... Continue Reading →

In the spirit of keeping up with the locals and ignoring the winter weather to embrace the great outdoors, I decided to enter a 10K run today. My new determination to defeat the winter chills wasn’t so much a baptism of fire, as a baptism of ice. A glance out the window this morning, was... Continue Reading →

Friday, November 20 Are we there yet? Are weeee theeeeeerre yeeeet!? What a day. First, quite a few glitches with the van hire this morning, which had us leaving London a few hours later that intended. We were eventually on the road, in our latest form of between-rides transport. We’ll be motoring around the country... Continue Reading →

Today was a good day for ducks, but that rain made it a monster day for museums! It was a day to be indoors, so we returned for Part II of our discovery tour of the Victoria and Albert Museum. It seems we had the right plan. When we entered through our newly discovered underground... Continue Reading →

With a crisp clear morning and a touch of blue sky, I couldn’t pass up the chance to go for a run, so run I did. Steve came with me on the bike and I ran alongside the Thames, looking across at Docklands, watching the varied water traffic going up and down and watching the... Continue Reading →

There were two missions to accomplish today: 1.Make the maiden voyage of navigation, driving through the centre of London, to find our apartment at Canary Wharf. 2. Make the return voyage through the centre of London to return the vulgar van. Mission 1 Captain Steve took the helm again, with myself as First Officer beside... Continue Reading →