We're off!

The house is quiet.....the bags are packed.
Earlier today we drove through the thick fog to Scarborough, where Elsie is sharing a kennel with Bing and Ella has a little place all to herself.
Freida was driven to Auntie Joyce, a neighbour and the hens are busy at work laying eggs as a daily thank you to Emma our immediate neighbour who is looking after them!

The weather has been dreadful but hey ho - the sun shines on the righteous and I have faith that tomorrow the sun will shine down on Jon and I as we tootle over the Yorkshire moors, through the Yorkshire dales then over the Irish sea to the Isle of Man!

Watch this space!

T is for Tropical Fruit Salad.

Bing LOVES fruit - he could have eaten a whole pineapple or a whole nectarine, even a banana - but being the culinary whizz he is he went for a bit of each fruit.

Afterwards he was very tired so hap a nap on the patio!
T in my alphabet of life with Bing - ABC Wednesday.
For other inspired contributors check out the link in my sidebar.

Sod's Law!

 

 

Every year something happens just before we go away. Whilst I am blessed with a technically minded, nay gifted engineer he has a day job.....a very important day job as he earns the pennies  by running his own engineering business. Last year he informed his customers he would be away for a week in June and they asked him to do work on various projects before we left......basically he has been busy ever since. Last week he told the same customers our plans and exactly the same thing has happened. Jon likes to keep Thursday free to get the motorbike ready, take the animals to their accommodation and sort the house out......so it looks as though he will be working right up until then. Even as I sit here on a lovely Sunday morning Jon is at the workshop. Tomorrow is a bank holiday - again Jon will most probably be at the workshop.

 

Yesterday as I emptied the dishwasher I felt a drop of water fall on my head. Looking up to the ceiling it was obvious all was not well. The bathroom is directly above the kitchen and to my horror I discovered the floor around the toilet was soaking wet. After various flushing of the toilet the dripping stopped but not entirely. We have put some newspaper down so we can monitor the drippings, but who needs this at this precise time?

 

As luck would have it we are having a new bathroom fitted on June 24th so we are winging it until then!