It's proved trickier than we had anticipated to get away
for short breaks in the van. Even though now having both retired there are
still demands on our time that keep us
at home. Laura finished her last A level yesterday. Disappearing for days at a
time would hardly have counted as proper moral support for the dear soul, aside
from the fact that I was providing her taxi service to college. It's a somewhat salutary thought that almost 23 years have elapsed since our eldest started school, and Laura only finished sixth
form yesterday. A bit of a milestone for
parents as well as the kids, especially as we have had one or more
offspring being adolescent for the past 14 years, phew! No wonder we feel its
time for a break!
And our promised long trip is not some distant pipe dream
- it's coming up, we have a possible start date - 27th September, less than three months hence.
A few things happening between now and then: a three week trip to the USA
starting next week; Gill's Dad's 90th Birthday party to organise, A level
results day (eek!); Laura to organise to get her to Greenwich University
(hopefully), and, I almost forgot, I have a 20,000 word dissertation to write
for the MA I thought would provide a challenge in my retirement. It has....I'm
really looking forward now to being profoundly unchallenged.
Today though, I care not a jot about any of it. We've
escaped for two nights to Anglesey, the weather is gorgeous, the scenery is
gorgeous, the enormous awning, recently repaired at enormous expense is
stretched out perfectly, and I'm stretched out imperfectly beneath it - bliss!
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| Proving Giff-Gaff lets you connect...anywhere! |
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| The path towards Newborough Forest, Anglesey. |
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| More forest paths |
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| Electic bikes - yay! |
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| BBQ time. |
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