Blogs from Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 8

I cannot believe that tomorrow we will be getting up at 6 o'clock in the morning to go to keswick!!! by the way the next time I post will be on the 10th so should have quite allot to tell you!... read more

Just Packing up & Putting up a few photos (the photos are of our practice!!)... read more

Geo: 51.8667, -2.24867Up with the alarm at 5:30 and down to breakfast for their opening at 6:00.I check-out and leave the guest house just before 7:00 and take a taxi from the main road at the end of our Soi. The traffic seems worse than ever this morning as he drives all over the place trying to avoid queues with little success. We are inching along and time is passing all too quickly and I fear for a late arrival at the airport. We finally break through onto the expressway and are on the way to Suvarnabhumi.I check-in just after 9:00 and go straight through immigration and security checks and make my way to Gate G4 where the plane is waiting. Had brought a book to pass the time but it is not needed. Phone Jai ... read more

Hi everyone Well the freezing cold weather did arrive at Ampney Crucis and I was grateful for the warm but very ill-fitting coat that I bought. It’s actually a very stylish woollen coat made for someone about 10 sizes bigger than me, but cold trumps elegance every time! I look a bit like a badger, a very warm one though!! So as you know our friend Chris died last week but in a serendipitous turn of events his son Daniel was staying in Oxford about an hour from us. We picked him up and he spent 2 days with the Willows and ourselves in Ampney Crucis. Despite the horrible circumstances it was good for us all to be together and was a very special time. Much wine and beer was consumed while we talked of our ... read more

A combination of a low in the sky sun and high cloud has had the effect of holding back the daybreak really making it look as though a new day has begun. We are certainly getting the feeling that autumn is well underway and that is being aided by the cool temperatures. Full kitchen facilities means a full breakfast although we couldn’t find any bacon in the supermarket yesterday afternoon that looked good enough to accompany our eggs so we shall make do with just poached eggs on toast. Although we had been to this area before, four years ago, we had just taken a day’s drive from south to north and as it had been so busy because it was summer we hadn’t actually stopped to take much in. So we are treating that as ... read more