Tuesday 10th September,
At last the wheels are turning; new knee fitted and mobile again. Today we are heading to Cornwall for a couple of weeks. It’s been the best part of 7-months since we have been away, and Rosie was feeling very neglected, still last week she had a professional come along and give her a thorough clean and polish to smarten and cheer her up!!! We collected her on Sunday and yesterday loaded her up ready for the off.
The drive down to the motorhome park outside Padstow was uneventful, though we went through all 4-seasons along the way. Before we left we had a message, the owner was not available to see us in on arrival, but told us where our pitch was. Arriving at the farm we followed the instructions and straight onto our pitch, marked out with orange cones and a reserved sign with our name on, very efficient.
The weather was wet, windy and cold, exacerbated by being exposed high up with minimal trees etc., fortunately our pitch was fairly flat so didn’t take many minutes to park her up nice and level. The sad thing was the dogs needed a run having been cooped up in the car for the past 3-hours, so off trotted Christine and dogs for a wet walk!!!
20-minutes later we were all sitting in the motorhome enjoying a hot drink wondering wether to go out or stay in, so decided to play a game of crib whilst deciding, well that’s what I thought. At 1600hrs there was a knock on out door and I assumed it was the site owner to check us in, wrong; I was gobsmacked to see Sarah and Lee at the door. It turns out Christine had been plotting behind my back at my 80th party back in May, to meet up here but kept it a secret!!!! Anyway we got them in out of the rain and the “G & T’s and wine” came out and we settled in for the rest of the afternoon, decision had already been made, unbeknown to me.
We took a break for dinner, they trotted off to their motorhome for food whilst we had ours, then after we dinner re-convened and carried on until quite late. What a surprise, a good one of course.
Fingers crossed we wake up to better weather tomorrow