Having farmed out two dogs I had been hoping for a
good night. However Treacle expanded to take the bed space of three dogs.
Over brekkie I sent out some birthday wishes, then
woke everyone else up. With the last of the packing done we set off on our
holiday.
What with glorious weather forecast, the police had
been warning of five million more cars than usual being on the roads today, so
we thought that an early start to beat the masses might be in order. We left
home shortly after six o’clock, and made very good time. So much so that even
stopping at Fleet services for a tiddle (that took
half an hour) we got to our destination in two and a half
hours.
As we drove we were messaging Karl and Tracey to say
where we were. However messages as to where they were weren’t forthcoming. I
would say where we were, and get a reply of “OK”, or “Excellent”. Were they ahead of us or behind? It turned out that they’d come down
last night, but having made incredibly good time we got to where we’d arranged
to meet ten minutes ahead of them.
I didn’t gloat much.
We started our little holiday with a walk round
Linford Bottom. The woods there were rather beautiful. The dogs spuddled in the
rivers and streams, the humans hunted for little Tupperware boxes. A rather good
walk. We then relocated to the Elm Tree where we had a sandwich and a pint or
two (three) of their rather good
Elm Tree ale. Hic!
Suitably replete we went shopping. First of all to
the Ringwood brewery for supplies. I took a selfie there and posted it to Facebook.
It got over twenty “likes”; including one from the brewery itself.
From there we went into Ringwood. Charlotte and I
had been detailed to walk the dogs to some local geocaches whilst everyone else
went to Sainsbury’s. We walked the dogs to one geocache, then walked the dogs
to the café where we had a pineapple and grapefruit smoothie each, then walked
the dogs on to the ice cream stall for ice creams.
I slept all the way back to our holiday cottage in
Redlynch.
We got to our cottage; it was rather grand. We unpacked
and explored. But time was running away from us. A quick change, and we went over
the road to the Kings’ Head.
A couple of pints, a rather good dinner, then back to base. We got out the Blockus,
and spent a rather good hour wantonly trying to ensure that everyone else lost.
Have you ever played Blokus? It’s not enough to win; everyone else must lose.
I
took a few photos today… I’m hoping I’ll sleep well…
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