Up by 7 walking the dog so we were out fairly early -before midday anyway. It rained pretty much all night and it kept at it up until 11am. Sleeping in Isabella in November is just about possible if you wrap up well. We noticed the main cold was coming up from the floor - which I guess means a sleeping bag may work better than just a sheet and duvet(s)?
Believe it or not we started this trip with a distressed cow and we got it again last night. So all in all, not a fabulous nights sleep.
We purchased discount tickets for the Wildlife Park at the campsite. A nice leisurely walk (well to be fair no walk is completely leisurely with Twinnies and Lottie), down the long drive and we were in. No rain for the rest of the day but it was chilly, overcast and very damp underfoot!
Penguins, meerkats, monkeys, wolves, zebras, giraffes, snakes, camals and a slightly stressed lion... we saw them all. The boys enjoyed themselves so much so that after the second round of playing in the huge playground, it was past 4 and starting to get dark. Interesting Lottie seemed to be as much of an attraction as the wildlife. So many people wanted to talk to her and pet her - she didn’t seem to mind the attention!
We walked back to Brunnehilda and relaxed a bit. Relaxing consisted of a knackered Lottie crashed out on Kim and me managing a 10 minute rota for the boys to share the use of one Nintendo Switch! There is a very intermittent 4G signal here so data for internet is as scarce as a BJ kept promise. (Oh blimey, just re-read that - BJ stands for Boris Johnson right? Just to be clear!!)
We needed a supermarket and somewhere “easy” to eat so we decided Witney (about 10 miles away) would probably do the trick. Laura remembered a nice Chinese she and G had gone to the night the found out she was pregnant with the Twinnies - so nice memories. Eventually we found it (The Water Margin) and it was indeed very nice. The lady server was fabulous including letting the boys sit at a separate table to watch the stress relieving fish until dinner was served. Apart from Harry being fixated on trying to find a shark in the tank, the ploy worked well!
We popped into a big Sainos on the way home. Amongst other things we needed a DVD for the boys to watch tonight. Ended up with Nemo. Probably not something that 12 year old Charlie had top of his viewing list but he was very good and tolerant- as always!
So get all the beds up, watch Nemo and sleep was about all we had the time, energy and space for tonight.
S’funny today I saw and said “hi” to two ex-Volvo colleagues. Amy round by the wolves in the park and Paul down by the cheese aisle in Sainsburys! Kim made the point that these meetings seemed to be the high points of my day! Not true we all had a super day but I guess my face hadn’t got the memo??!
Just proof read this (yes, I know the many grammatical and spelling mistakes makes this hard to believe!) and noticed the amount of times I mentioned “stress” in the blog - maybe the current Mrs Pitts had a point?!
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