Blogs from Kent, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 10

The day has finally come......We have a date to fly!! We have been waiting for what seems like months to have a date to move. I was at the point that if 1 more person asks me "do you have a date yet?" I was going to scream!!!!!! Now we are on count down! The packing is almost finished, yay. It is hard work when you have a 2 year old helping. William thinks it is Christmas again with all these boxes around and as I am taping each up and putting the lables on, he is going around opening each up!! It is amazing just how much "stuff" we have. Oh my god, the things I have kept "just in case" but I have been ruthless and we have thrown so much out and have ... read more

We went to Dover castle one of the days we were in England. It was really interesting, first walking in there, because the outside makes it look like one big castle, but it is really just a wall around it. We first looked at the things that are around the castle, like mortars, catapults and cannons. Then we went undneath the castle to where we think prisoners were put. There we were big metal balls with cannon balls on them so it was difficult to move the doors in and out. Then we went up into the castle where we learned about the history of King Henry the second and his family, and how they had many fights with each other. Then we went up into one of the towers which had the sleeping quarters for ... read more

At Aunt Alice's we mostly talked and watched TV together. I played with the Lego I was generously given, and I caught up with writing. It was good to actually get to meet them instead of just talking to them over Skype. Around 1 o'clock Maureen would start to cook supper. They had a very different way of cooking supper. Maureen would finish cooking around 3 o'clock, and when people wanted to eat we would just heat it up in the microwave. i spent lots of my time playing with Brandy, the dog. I had a really nice time there and hopefully I will be able to go back soon. Talk to you Later Snake Wrangler signing out.... read more

Sometimes you just need a break, don’t you? The younger generation takes long weekends. Us oldies, well, we take long mid-weeks. This mid-week, our excuse - as if we needed one, was that I’d finally persuaded my good lady to reduce the ever-growing collection of jigsaw puzzles she’d squirrelled away on shelves in our garage and in almost every cupboard and wardrobe in the house. She had more than 200 boxes of the things, collectables apparently – clever 1500-piece cartoons by a Dutchman called Jan van Haasteren and innumerable tricky ones by an outfit called Wasgij? (the picture on the box isn’t the puzzle you make, hence the back-to-front name!). Through one of those community websites, my wife found another good lady willing to take 10 percent of these desirable things off her hands for a ... read more

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