Early Spring Holiday, 14 March 2026

 Brixton, London

This was dawn, as seen through the window of the motor home!  I woke early, and it was a lovely morning - actually, a lovely day - although very cold.  The Swan Whisperer went to buy croissants and a tarte aux poires for lunch (much nicer than last week's!), and we had a fairly early breakfast before getting everything packed up - or as much as is feasible, of course.  Our crossing was booked for 11:50. but we were ready, and headed over to the Eurotunnel just before 10, and were delighted to be booked on the 10:20 crossing!  This meant that we arrived at No 6 just before noon, rather than the 13:30 we were scheduled to.  I was pleased, as I was aware that an early breakfast and late lunch would indubitably give me a hypo; as it was, I ate my croissant on the crossing, as intended, and survived pretty much intact until lunch.  I hadn't thought I'd really have time to cook, so lunch was kidneys in madeira sauce (an old friend) with wholegrain rice from a sachet and frozen peas.  Followed by the tarte aux poires mentioned above.

The Swan Whisperer finished transferring stuff from the WoMo to the car, and then went for a walk in the woods to enjoy the spring flowers.  The bluebells aren't yet out, he tells me, or only one or two very early ones.  We set off for home at about 4:00, and, apart from stopping for petrol, made good time.  To discover, of course, that we have left our coffee grinder and one of his earbuds in the WoMo, where they will have to stay until Easter, when we are next going down.  So when the SW nipped out to Lidl to get milk and bananas,  he also bought some ground coffee to keep us going.

I am annoyed as I bought a new tablet from Amazon to replace mine, which I thought had died.  It arrived, so I switched on my current one to try to do a factory reset before recycling it, only to find it was behaving perfectly!  I suppose I'd better return the new one, but feel I don't trust mine just now.... Sigh!

So that's it for now until May, when we go to Oberstdorf; if diesel is still as horrendously expensive as it is now, we may have to make it a two-centre holiday, rather than a touring-and-one-centre one.  I hope there will be some outings between now and then, though.

And here are some of the amaryllises I bought my mother for her birthday.  To cut a long story short, I thought I'd ben scammed, and bought her something else, but then these arrived and have actually grown!