Revolutionary Rants

Just a link today, as I loved the article and it has many of my own feelings on the subject of my name and my choices, too. I have been to see Star Wars: Clone Wars with my niece and nephew, then I took them swimming and now it is time for some snap!

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A few photos as some people have requested them over at my beloveds site:

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Terrible bad luck hit some guests this weekend. My friend Angie had come to visit from Ireland and stayed overnight before heading off to Bath and Oxford. She, her little boy and parter has literally just arrived five minutes before when we heard a loud bang from outside. A milk lorry had taken out their car…  And thus the nightmare for her began, trying to sort stuff out with the Irish insurers and manage to continue their holiday. They, eventually after many phone calls and trouble on their part, hired a car and I am now waiting for a national assessor to come and decide if the car will be fixed or written-off. I feel so awful as in all our six years at this cottage no one has had that happen before.

So, we have had a nice but hectic weekend, it was lovely to see my pal but such a shame what happened on their visit. Other than that, my gladioli are through and looking lovely, if bent over like drunken people examining their feet after a battering from the rain. I managed a nice swim yesterday and watched lots of Poirot, too.

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There is a poor, over-hyped Italian man lying on the ground and crying loudly as I write. I think he is sobbing because he has missed out on Gold, but I am not certain, as shooting is not something I watch closely. Either way, GB have some medals – including a Gold, for a lass from Mansfield, of course!

Well, we had a fab holiday in Northern France. We headed off after Chicken finished work on the Wednesday and caught the 23:00 ferry. We had little cabin-type thingies and although these were comfortable none of us managed much sleep due to the noise and the heat of the boat. We arrived in France at about 7:00am local time and drove down to Gouarec, which was relatively smooth with the sat nav. We filled up on coffee, showered and the excitement of the little people on seeing us kept us awake! I went to see them go horse riding that afternoon and had a slow walk with my brother who is still crippled with his bad back.

We had a big French style dinner, a glass or two of rose and slept well!

The next day featured on the highlights of the holiday – we went kayaking! We did this on the Brest-Nantes canal. I was in a canoe with my niece, my younger bro’ with our nephew and Chicken and sis-in-law – Lasher as she is nicknamed in our family! – in another. You we down shoots at the lock gates and there were seventeen of these on our root. It was bloody hard work, but also excellent fun!!!

After this we visited the medieval town of Pontivy, which was nice but had an English brass band playing and we went to an English tea shop, too!!!!!!!!! Bus-persons holiday, methinks.

On the Saturday we moved to Yvais, which is up nearer the Northern coast. As Chicken has said the house was rather nautically themed and odd looking, but it was a lovely spot for a holiday. Big garden for the kids, a big dining table for us all to sit at, plenty of sofas, a lovely view and much closer to things than we were in Gouarec.

We had a a couple of lovely sunny days and went to Plage Bonaparte which was a beautiful, long sandy beach, and a smaller cove beach. We went to Paimpol a few times, out for lunch with Alex to a local hotel with excellent moules et frites. We went round the ‘rose’ coast, saw the Chapelle Saint-Gonery a Plougrescant and ate foot-long baguettes.  It was absolutely gorgeous. So nice to relax for that long and be in France, too.

We returned on Friday to a very, very wet Devon; both glad to be home and sad at the same time. Now working life is back on track. Ho-hum!

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