More days in Yorkshire

It has been sometime since I added a note or two, but it has been a very happy few weeks among various family members in Yorkshire and further south.

For the May 26th  'Family Reunion' at the home of my half brother and his partner, with cousins from Lincolnshire, a son and daughter in law, with their two gorgeous girls from The Netherlands we had beautiful warm sunny weather!
The days there were spent antique hunting (quite successful!), open garden viewing, (beautiful) and generally enjoying the countryside. With lots of fun and laughter.  Many thanks J and F!!

Mollis azaleas at Wentworth Castle

More Azaleas

    















I celebrated the Jubilee Weekend as best as I could with a very heavy cold!

Now it was time to make my way down south, to a number of friends and family to say my goodbyes and my thanks for all their help and very generous hospitality.

This journey began in a typically Aussie fashion and flustered at least three English households!
Leaving Yorkshire at around 9.30am, (having been warned about the difficulties of driving on busy Fridays), I travelled easily to Lincolnshire in an hour and a half intending to stay there for only an hour or two before continuing on to Hertfordshire. Only, as soon as I arrived, I received a text message to say I had left a backpack behind. 
Volunteering to send this to Herts by courier was a nice thought, but the luggage not only contained my laptop, but two passports, some extra cash, and all my Australian credt and visa cards! I didn't think this a good idea so I decided, since there was plenty of day left, to return to Yorks, pick up the bag and re set the sat nav for Herts.

That's when the plan started to go haywire.

For some reason the A1 was blocked in two places and instead of taking the one and a half hours I expected, the return journey took three and a half! By the time I picked up the backpack and turned the car round it was after 4pm!
Nothing daunted, with the sat nav re set, I headed off down the M1 only to discover everyone else in England doing just the same! The journey was slow and tedious and I eventually arrived at my destination at very nearly 8pm! By this time I had been in the driving seat for approx seven and a half hours not counting the original one and a half in the early morning.

I have discovered a whole new way of life....How to amuse myself stuck in three lanes of traffic for hours on end, and how to send numerous text messages while crawling at speeds no more than 5 - 10 miles per hour!









Female pheasant on her nest - 'well hidden'


Next news update will be from the Netherlands......