A visit to England

[bunn]

This weekend was the Oldies Club committee meeting, requiring what I can't help thinking of as a visit to England. Well, really it does seem quite different over there. The roads! The shops! The traffic! The people! The flatness!

The meeting was in Bicester, that being roughly in the middle,  so central for people from all over - but still far too far for me to go in one day. Thus I had an excellent excuse to drop in on skordh & jane_somebody and admire the many new skills of baby El.

Inevitably, the meeting overran and it took me ages to get home, so Polo had to look after the end of my ebay auction for my old Olympus C765 camera.  He got 150!  Pretty good for a camera that was 2 years old and cost £230 when I bought it! b(admittedly, I threw in some batteries and things).

I was glad to get home though.  As if determined to make it clear I had left England and its thousand thousand light industrial units,   the various people who sell things from their driveways in the village had put out cheery springlike things to buy, so I bought a bunch of daffodils and some goose eggs on Monday morning and put the money in their respective jamjars.

The Subaru dealer in Plymouth has folded, so today I took the impreza to the Ford garage in Tavvi instead.  What a difference!  They knew who I was, they had all the parts ordered from an allied Subaru dealer elsewhere, they did the job in about 5 hours, the car worked perfectly afterwards, and they gave me a really quite nice courtesy car which had plenty of room for Mollydog!  And they were cheap. No wonder the Subaru dealer folded: everyone was buying Fords.

Polo is away in Aberdeen this week, so poor Mollydog is pining.  She does love him so.  I was touched to find that while I was away, rather than just taking her for a quick trot down the road he got the map out and drove out to an exciting new place to give her a good long walk.  Awww.

Comments

[chainmailmaiden]

Poor Mollydog, I know how she feels. I suspect I will be pining for Bacchus before the week is out :-(

[bunn.livejournal.com]

All I can say is: don't get a dog thinking it will make good company when your husband is away: you will only find yourself having to sympathetically hold a sad paw!

[chainmailmaiden]

I don't think I would be allowed to have a dog, Bacchus thinks they're much too hard work, what with having to walk them several times a day. However the time when I will be able to fill the void with cats is getting closer *huge grin*

Unfortunately I suspect the cats will love him and ignore me, except when I feed them :-(

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

Don't cats ignore everyone except when they're hungy?

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Wahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

You haven't met our cats, so you don't know why this is so funny.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wish mine would! They leap on top of me 24 hours a day, shouting, "Speak to me! Stroke me! Love me! Cuddle me! Give me attention!" I think this whole idea that cats are aloof and cold is a tale invented by dog lovers in an attempt to win the propaganda war.

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

"Who us?"
/innocent look

[chainmailmaiden]

Your cats are exactly the sort I want to have - needy, attention-seeking ones who demand to be cuddled :-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Having just posted a comment about the delights of the rural area I live in, I'm still getting jealous of you!

[bunn.livejournal.com]

This is a fabulous place to live. Living here has presented a number of difficulties and our move has been described (probably accurately) as 'career suicide' (Polo has turned down promotions that would have required us to move). It is so, so worth it. And that's not just me.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

We have had semi-serious thoughts about moving to Orkney - and would like a shot, if we could find jobs that would pay us even a fraction of our current salaries (bloated capitalit plutocrat who likes his luxuries, me).