We arrived on a
grey evening – not raining but cold and miserable. The site is on a bit of a slope and
we gave the other two caravan owners a spectacle to amuse by tooing and froing
our caravan – mainly by hand!! – until we managed to get it relatively
level.
Mike tried to manoeuvre it by car but the wheels were just spinning on the wet grass. Mike took ages trying to disconnect the stabiliser as it won't come off when there's pressure on it. The slope didn't help.
Mike tried to manoeuvre it by car but the wheels were just spinning on the wet grass. Mike took ages trying to disconnect the stabiliser as it won't come off when there's pressure on it. The slope didn't help.
Electric
hook-up so no worries about running on battery – not that we do worry. Mike read in his caravan mag that only 8% of
the caravanning fraternity use battery power.
Got to bed
relatively that night. It was nice to
snuggle under our very heavy duvet though.
Nice and toasty. Trouble is, it
is so snugly that we didn’t want to get up the next day as it was so cold. Putting the heater on didn’t do much to heat
the caravan either. No sunshine either –
but also no rain. A rare occurrence at
the moment as we’ve just experienced the wettest April since records
began! And there a drought,
apparently!!!
After a very
chilled and laid back morning, we eventually went into Wantage. Nice little town which unfortunately had a
fun fair taking up the market place and blaring very loud metallic sounding
music. Didn't look in many shops but
there were a few ‘different’ ones that we should have seen. Mike was a little concerned about the cars
radiator as it had sprung a leak so we were looking for somewhere to sell us
some Radweld and tools.That took us to Newbury on the hunt for a radiator! Several ‘parts’ places later and none to be found. We’ll just have to limp home and get the garage to do it when the car goes in for its MOT.
Back to Hungerford, a quick look for the hairdressers – I’ve arranged to get my hair cut and styled before Ali & Justin’s wedding reception – then to find a cafe for some lunch. Eventually found one. Seems there aren’t many cafe in Hungerford. A very uninspired soup later and I headed to my appointment whilst Mike went food shopping.
I am very disappointed with my hair! The girl who cut it was more interested in talking to her own reflection in the mirror and listening to other peoples conversation – not that I was doing much talking but I was paying for my hair cut!. Even Mike noticed the hacked about hair style I now sported. Ah well, back to the caravan for some magic hair spray.
After a little snoozette – I wasn’t worried about ruining my hair! – we both got ready for our night out. Mike even had on his aftershave he’d bought earlier – Givency Gentleman...mmmm.
Back in Hungerford and The Bear Hotel. Ali and Justin’s evening reception was well under way. Amy, Dave and Josh were already there having been to the actual wedding too. I think I spent most of the time with Josh. I introduced him to dancing although he spent most of the time running around, or crawling over, the dance floor! He also liked to go outside – well it was hot inside. He found a huge parasol which he insisted on running around whilst holding onto the pole getting lovely and dirty. Still, he was keeping himself amused. Later he pushed several chairs around it to make a ‘flower’. We need to encourage his artistic flair!
He got tired around 9.30 so Amy & Dave left to go to bed. Whether they actually got to sleep I don’t know as their room was directly above the room the reception was in! We also decided to go then.
We had previously made the bed up so when we got back we sat in bed listening to music and talking. It was good doing that so we had a lovely end to our day.
Another lazy morning and breakfast then up to see the site owner, Joanne. She holds classes in the art of needlework – appliqué, embroidery, patchwork etc. We had previously taken possession of a hand made quilt from South Africa. It did need a bit of a repair but we couldn’t see ourselves actually using it, so Mike suggested giving it to Joanne. Brilliant idea! She was so enthusiast about it. I’m glad we did. At least I know she will use it in some way, even if it is just to show examples of work to her students. I really want to show her the cot bumper and quilt I made for Josh so I may send her a photo of it. She has asked for more information about the quilts so I’ll send it then.
She told us about a walk which we went on around the fields and beyond the ridge that we could see from the caravan (we kept saying ‘I wonder what's over that ridge’). Now we know – a Huge field of Rape, so yellow. It was lovely but so smelly. Our walk took us to the pub –
what a surprise!. It was lovely. Certainly somewhere we’d like to go to have a
meal; a real country pub with locals all knowing each other and plenty of dogs. It was great.
Mind you, a couple of drinks later and a trek back to the caravan meant
an afternoon siesta!
Continued to chill, eat, play games and chill some more.
Monday morning and rain. No laid back relaxing breakfast but a quick wash, get up and pack up so that we didn’t get stuck on the field – it was vacating day. Wrong! We had to enlist the help of the owner and his landrover to get us out. He was so kind. I know he was just going out but he rescued us without batting an eyelid.
Definitely go back – especially now we have a new car and four wheel drive!
