Blogs from Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales, United Kingdom, Europe

"Derwen is the welsh word for oak trees " I said . There must have been many oak trees here in the past . The driver in the car with no name was not really giving his attention to my utterings. He was negotiating the road . Well road was perhaps exaggerating. We may well have been driving Clint down a road according to the inbuilt BMW sat nav system but what we were on was clearly not really a road . Calling it a lane would be nearer the truth but still a long way from being the truth. In the end we thought path might be the best option . There was just enough room for the car with no name to pass along although the mirrors sticking out could cause problems here and ... read more

Tuesday - another day and another house. Another town too. Wrexham . What would I if I were a visitor think of Wrexham? As we drove through I thought it shabby, unloved with many empty shops. Devoid of any character . It was not the town I remembered fondly of as a child. Then it was an hive of activity with bustling shops, markets and people . So many people coming in to do their weekly shop. We passed the Lemon Tree Restaurant . That used to be the Denbighshire Education Committee offices . Sandwiched in between 60's monstrosities and Victorian handsome villas . We wondered if today was going to be "our" house . Not too finished . Not too perfect . Somewhere we could leave our mark on . How hard was it turning ... read more

Woolly says – It’s been a busy week for me, whilst the girls have been providing refreshment for the county and beyond I’ve been brushing up my golfing shots. The lovely pro here, Lewis, says I have five handicaps which I think is pretty good, the only problem being that to bring my score down further I need to lose my paws or brain…. I’m working on that conundrum! A day off however provides the opportunity to go and investigate more of the area. I think that this is a possible first of many for us as our planned visit is to a place that Zoe and I have both been to when she was small and the mammoth hadn’t taken over our lives! Woolly says – Through the windy roads we went, the swing backs ... read more

Suzy has taken root on the drive. She has only moved a few inches and a few feet so that we can get into the garage and get the car out to drive over to Derbyshire twice and to Loughborough in Leicestershire once. She wants to be on the move again and so do we. Well what has happened since we got home. Summer has briefly been and gone. We had wall to wall sunshine which lasted long enough to get the grass cut and to get the endless piles of washing out. Suzy got a Summer clean, her cupboards were emptied and dusted and polished leaving her smelling of beeswax and lavender. Her bedding taken out including the duvets, washed and put on the washing line to either dry or air. The carpets were beaten, ... read more

Suzy is getting ready for her satelitte dish to be sorted - we hope. Booked in on Friday this week to a guy in Telford who hopefully will sort her out. We are not paying as although the guarantee ran out a few weeks ago we could not and were really not prepared to travel again to Dorset to have it fixed. The company did not want to come up to do it on our drive and they did not want to send us back to RoadPro for the second time in a year. In the end the compromise was made and we are booked in for this week fairly local. We need to empty the van again so that they can get into it to find out why the dish wont come down. Frustrating because ... read more