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My imaginary letter
Hi Jackie - my imagination went wild reading a blog called The Office is closed . I dont know how they managed it but they have been travelling for nearly two years in that borrowed Laika . All I kept thinking was how do they do it . My letter if I ever sent it would end up in Room 101 . I think a lot of the older ones have spiked in price due to the new tax on the new ones . I know that was changed in the budget eventually but it still has sent old vans through the roof . We fell in love with a new one when we went to take something back to SMC in Newark but to be honest the cost was well over 50K just to start and then we said to each other - add on the solar panels, the lithium battery , the MIFI , the two gas cylinders plus the TV dome and we would be somewhere well over 60K . We loved the overhead cab huge window but then wondered just how much it would cost to replace if it ever broke and couldnt be done under warranty . Thousands . In the end we loved it and left it and said we just would not justify spending any more money buying a new one . Gabby is fine . I dont think if I sent any letter I would be lucky enough to get a freebie . When luck was dished out we got all the bad luck . I think that there will be a mad travel exodus when we are finally released . I dont know where we all will go. Everyone judging by what I read on FB are buying motorhomes without really having any idea about what they cost to upkeep and what to do with them . We are counting down September but dont know if we will get away . We are beginning to feel very frustrated . Working from home and hate it . I miss the company . I dont know about you but this has really changed my thinking . Have you got any travel plans ? How is the veg coming on in the allotment . Had our first strawberry (yes just one ) yesterday and two more ripening today. Peas are flowering and the beans that the frost caught are regrowing . Hope you are still keeping safe. xx

NHS -
Not sure Bob . All dentists are closed at the moment . Just read on the TV that dentists are opening in a week . I am not sure whether it will just be to catch up . I might ring again next week and try to get an update . I can wait three months but dont want to wait 9 - that is just silly of them. Mind you listening to Boris now I think the world has gone mad .

schools and shopping
Hi - I had thought about Click and Collect but I usually enjoy going round the shop early on a Saturday morning picking up what I fancy rather than what I think i need. I notice the van outside waiting for customers to turn up to collect their groceries . We lost our runner beans the other night . Glenn covered them all but they were caught by the frost . The potatoes are slow . I should harvest my first crop of lettuce tomorrow . Not doing much today. Been in the "virtual canteen" at work . A colleague set up the Skype session for us . It was interesting to see what was going on . A telekit waste of time too. I cant see us going back for some while . The department are fitting us out with phones of the computers so we can do customer care calls from home. That seems to be the way of the business now. No need for a real jobcentre however just heard the story of the man who has claimed Universal Credit has 8 children and all are blind . Fraud is going to be rife after all of this . There will be some court cases coming out of the wash when it is all over . Mind you we have them already - couples with blind children called A , B, C and D . I am glad I dont do UC. Our school winter hat and summer ones were like pudding basins in the lower school . They looked more like RAF female hats in senior school and were more feminine . Our school was called Grove Park ...........Grammar school for Girls . 900 of us . You can see where the motto came from . Latin woods .arbour was turned into groves to suit the motto . God it was strict but fair I suppose. I still can hear one teacher with a broad scots accent shouting "No talking in the balllllllllllllllllllllllcany girls ". We were never allowed up the front stairs until we were 14 . Only allowed up the back stairs . We had a Steinway piano in the Great Hall which was played every morning before assembly by Mrs Edwards Music as we called her . Good times in an odd way