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Europe » United Kingdom » England » Derbyshire » Chesterfield August 28th 2020

Have you noticed with Covid and the new normal that all the days seem to run into one ? It is hard to distinguish a Saturday from a Sunday. Saturday quiet . Sunday quiet apart from the church bells . Depending on the wind that may be our local church or one further away. Saturday no swim. Sunday swim. The days drift into each other . Saturday cleaning . Sunday more cleaning . The weather seems the only topic of different conversation . Apart from will we ever find a house . Disappointed at the response of the estate agents on Friday we find ourselves scouring the pages of Right Move just in case we have missed something that might just be "our " house . Or something new has come on for sale . Most ... read more
Another of those were the Romans here moments
Stone Roses
Pale pink end of summer Holyhocks

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Derbyshire » Chesterfield August 23rd 2020

Who would have thought I would be writing blogs about Chesterfield on such a regular basis . They were never my intention . I wrote the first Chesterfield number 59 over five months ago without any idea that today I would be in August and writing number 174. There was never going to much of interest to write home about . A walk , a trip to the supermarket under lockdown . A complaint about having to cancel the Scandanavian holiday . No swimming , daily broadcasts from the Prime Minister or one of his sidekicks . A lack of flour and eggs . Looking back I never expected this to be still going on and ruining - yes ruining our lives . I sat early on enjoying the Spring sunshine . Sitting in the garden ... read more
a sign of the times
Someones watching me - a Cinnebar moth caterpillar on Ragwort
I wish I was in Timbuktu

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Derbyshire » Chesterfield August 22nd 2020

Day 148 Sunday - Week 33 of the year. Week 22 of Covid 19. 229 days gone done and dusted and another 137 left to go. We left Hay and decided to head for the tiny towns of Knighton and Presteigne. We ended up at Presteigne first and parked up on a small car park just behind the police station . The lovely town offered us free parking for 2 hours . Just enough to explore this small border town . Presteigne is in welsh called Llanandras and stands on the River Lugg. It has the title of the Gateway to Wales due to its position . Its border wraps round three sides of the town . We were never to see the town though . The police station was closed . The town deserted . ... read more
A delicate Cosmos
Who am I watching ?
More signs of Autumn

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Derbyshire » Chesterfield August 15th 2020

Where in the world is Gabby the motorhome . She has been travelling . As far as Exeter in Devon but lets just roll back the clock as the plan did not quite come together. Day 137 - A Thursday I think . That would make Day 138 a week last Friday and Day 139 Saturday . With a week gone iento the ether I cannot remember much about those three days . They came and they went . Our days dont seem to have much structure . Thursday swim, Thursday work , Thursday a viewer for the house. Another day of being nice. A day of trying to be welcoming . A day of trying to pick up on the good things about our home and why we want to leave it Showing off the ... read more
good enough to eat

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Derbyshire » Chesterfield August 10th 2020

Poor old Gabby the motorhome is taking root . She has barely moved since .................................. A trip up the motorway. A trip to the tyre depot . She has barely moved since February . And no we did not SORN here nor has the insurance company come up with a refund for the lack of miles she has travelled . It all seems a bit unfair . To make it worse motorhomes seem to be hated now . So many newbies have bought them and hit the UK . So few places to go to that the locals are complaining . The motorhomers leave rubbish . Why would they ? They have their own bins . Their own ability to take their rubbish home . They spoil our views . They wee and do worse in ... read more
My walks take me past strange sights and I still wonder what this might be
Would you buy a house with this in the garden ?
A well overgrown house name

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Derbyshire » Chesterfield August 8th 2020

Week 20 . It is almost a week since I put pen to blog . Where has yet another week gone to? Trickled away and I have missed it . Monday - swim day. Lie in bed . Hard to get up. Sometimes you wonder what is the point ? Stay in bed late . Why not ? But somehow the inner body clock stops you going back to sleep. So used to getting up you cannot just lie there . As much as you want to . You know you have to get up and face another Covid Day . Motivation . Swings and Roundabouts . Perhaps I felt OK yesterday . How would I feel today? The days take on the same unrelenting boredom . We could go out . What will the weather ... read more
Spring on the Lido
Yellow peeping out through the leaves
Late summer Yellow Clematis

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Derbyshire » Chesterfield August 3rd 2020

Saturday - August 1st - the eighth month of the year . As I lay in bed not wanting to rise I thought white rabbits . Some people would say white rabbits before they said anything else on the first day of the month. Reputedly to give you good luck for the coming month . I never did . I just lay there wondering if it was going to be dry day to walk . The nights are beginning slowly to draw in . It feels late summer . I ached as I lay there . My feet ached in a different way to walking . Swimming had been a brilliant diversion but I found muscles I had forgotten about . I wondered what walking would feel like today . Would I return to sore insteps ... read more
A Corn Marigold meadow
I liked this house number

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Derbyshire » Chesterfield August 1st 2020

Day 131 Thursday- good news Cadw the welsh heritage site have decided to give us a helping hand. They are giving us six months extra free membership to compensate us for not being able to use the card . How nice is that? I doubt that the National Trust will follow suit. They bleat about the loss of income and they are such a big organisation . Much bigger than Cadw . Their answer to the lack of funds is not to be kind to their members but to sack thousands of staff . Not those at the top . Swimming this morning before work . The one way system seems to be working . The young in the queue though seem to congregate and talk to each other . The duty manager yells - "Shall ... read more
One of the four lakes that provided water for the ironworks
Another closer view of the chimney
Orchids

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Derbyshire » Chesterfield July 31st 2020

Well there you go . Gabby is fixed . The windscreen man rang . I will be with you in ten minutes . He arrived with a new windscreen for our girl just in case he could not get the mirror off and replace it with a different one. The rain held off and he scored . He heated the screen . It did not crack . The mirror came off and the new one was fixed on . Result . We can fix our french and German emission stickers back on. The driver took the hub caps off and checked the tyre pressures . Not sure if it was the weather but the pressure was low . That's not an easy job . Moving our girl to make room . Taking off the plastic protections ... read more
Spring flowers Bladder Campion
A spring Cinquerfoil
Hearts in nature

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Derbyshire » Chesterfield July 29th 2020

The new normal. Normal in inverted commas. Will it ever be normal again ? We seem to use the word normal a lot these days but it does not mean what it used to mean. It has become normal to wonder what normal actually looks like. Being able to swim without booking a session. To go to a National Trust property without booking. To work from an office rather than from home. To go away on holiday. We have had a few weeks of something like "normal" when people have chanced their arms and booked a holiday . To Spain for some sun . And then out of the blue a rise in Covid infections and we are back to quarantine again . 14 days holed up when they return. No shopping , No work and ... read more
Was I watching him or he watching me ?




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