Sad to say but some folk just spin you a line Yada Yada, and you put your trust their statements, only for someone else later to give you the low down on what really is the case. I suppose like most we take people at face value and hope that they treat us with the same goodwill that we show them; sadly it’s not the case with some.
Yesterday we put the RV in for a service, and asked the local RV Company doing the service to also install three MaxAir vents on the roof. The reason for these air vents is that when the wind blows strongly the lids of the existing roof vents rattle and if it’s raining you have to close them. With these in place it stops the rattle and you can leave them open even when it’s raining.
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| MaxAir Vents |
The RV was to stay with the service boys for the whole day so Kay and I decided to visit Gloucester for a day out, well the New Gloucester Quays shopping centre was calling Kay…. say no more.
We also spent a good time walking the town centre; this is not our first visit as we were here last year but it gave us a chance to visit some of the places we missed the last time like the Cathedral.
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| Oxebode Information |
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| Oxebode today |
We spotted an interesting story about how the the OxeBode in Gloucester got its name (originally the area was a slum of narrow lanes) in which an Ox got stuck and had to chopped up (see below).
There's an ox lying dead at the end of the lane,
His head on the pathway, his feet in the drain,
The lane is so narrow, his back was so wide,
He got stuck in the road 'twixt a house on each side.
He couldn't go forward, he couldn't go back,
he was stuck just as tight as a nail in a crack,
And the people all shouted, so tightly he fits,
We must kill him and carve him and move him in bits.
So a butcher dispatched him and then had a sale,
Of his ribs and his sirloin his rump and his tail.
And the farmer he told me I'll never again
Drive cattle to market down Oxbodie lane
His head on the pathway, his feet in the drain,
The lane is so narrow, his back was so wide,
He got stuck in the road 'twixt a house on each side.
He couldn't go forward, he couldn't go back,
he was stuck just as tight as a nail in a crack,
And the people all shouted, so tightly he fits,
We must kill him and carve him and move him in bits.
So a butcher dispatched him and then had a sale,
Of his ribs and his sirloin his rump and his tail.
And the farmer he told me I'll never again
Drive cattle to market down Oxbodie lane
Gloucester has many hidden gems like the house from Beatrix Potter’s book ‘The Tailor of Gloucester’ which is a Beatrix Potter’s museum & memorabilia shop in College Court just off Westgate Street. It was here Kay and I found a cracking little eatery called Lilly’s and I would recommend this to everyone for somewhere to stop for lunch though it does get very busy at lunch times.
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| Beatrix Potter's museum |
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| Lilly's Restaurant |
We then went to visit the Cathedral and took the opportunity to visit the whispering gallery which totally amazed me its works!!!!
Here’s one for our American readers… the National Anthem of the United States (The star Spangled Banner )was written by John Stafford Smith 1750 -1836 (no relative, well not that we have discovered anyway).
There is so much to see and to wonder at the Cathedral that I thought it best just to put a link to their site http://www.gloucestercathedral.org.uk/ so that you can view it at your leisure.
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| John Stafford Smith |
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| USA Flag |
After a busy day sightseeing, shopping and eating (what a boring life) we headed back to pick up the RV as it was late afternoon.
We arrived just as the boys had finished and we were amazed when he informed us that all had been done on a previous so called service last December was an oil change and coolant change!!!! Still it’s done now, but you find that you lose faith with some peoples statements.
Hope you enjoy the photos…remember clicking on them makes them much larger and there are more new photos on Animal and Blods facebook page.
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