Laugh I nearly cried!

Well it’s been an interesting few days, first thing yesterday morning we nipped into Burnham to make sure that we posted the Munchkin’s (Rhys) birthday card off in time for his birthday and afterwards decided to drive to Cheltenham, as we needed to get some bits and pieces for the RV from RV Spares.

I wonder what Nan & Bamp's
have got for my birthday

I bet it's not what I wanted

The little Toad (The Toyota IQ) is an amazing little machine, it drives on fumes and it shifts as well. It’s nothing to look at, I’ve often japed that if I supper glued a shoe on the roof of two of them I’d have a pair of motorised roller skates.

Toyota IQ

As we drove up the M5 it was interesting to see other driver’s attitude to these little machines. As I passed one sporty looking car the driver took a double take as though to say ‘how dare he overtake me in that’ and then put his foot down. I just smiled back we've had this done to us quite a few times in the past few months. There he was burning gallons of fuel in his sporty machine and the little IQ at sixty miles hour is still doing sixty miles to the gallon, after all they only have a three cylinder engine.

We arrived at RV Spares store by midday and having collected most of the items we needed we decided it was time to get some lunch. So we called into a local 500 year old tavern called the House in the Tree. The meal was reasonably good fare and we found that the Tavern hid a fantastic story of witches and folk lore about the Legend of Maud’s Elm.

Now this story is well worth reading so I’ve put this link for you to read all about it, believe me it’s quite fascinating. http://www.twistedtree.org.uk/legend_of_maude.htm

House in the Tree

When we got back to Home farm we decided to see what entertainment was on that night in the Night Owl.

Now as I’ve mentioned before both Kay and I have been professional musicians in our past and I have even been an entertainer. The downside of this past is that we tend to be very critical when we’re being entertained. The entertainer last night brought tears to our eyes but sadly not of mirth.

If you could imagine an extremely overweight Ted Bovis (from the TV series Hi De Hi) who was well past his sell by date, using tatty flea bitten props that were on the verge of destruction you might get a visual image. His act was pretty poor, his jokes old and boring, his stage presence at time bordered on disturbing; on the upside the guy had a great voice. I felt that if he’d based his act more on his singing than his comedy he could have put over a fairly reasonable show. Needless to say we didn’t stay for the second act.

Today it’s been fixing this fixing that, one of the lower drawer fittings had snapped so that was fixed. One of the overhead locker drawers needed fixing so I got into Mr fix it mode. By the evening our little section has filled up with motorhomes. As I look out of the window there are now four American RV’s (including ours) and five Euro vans. The sun of this morning has disappeared and the rain has returned. I wonder what’s on at the club tonight?

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