Coming Home

11.05am
When i woke up this morning the sun was cracking the flags and i thought it was sooooo unfair!!! I got up at about 9.20am and had my breakfast before going for a shower. Obviously we haven't done an awful lot today and we're not going to do an awful lot before we leave. I did have a rather strange phenomenon in that everything seemed to fit into my backpack easier than it did on the way here but i realised my slippers aren't in it - and now i'mnot going to bother putting them in, i'll just put them in a carrier bag.

It sounds really awful but the weather has gone dull now and i'm really glad ;-D It makes things feel less gauling in terms of rubbish weather while we're here and good weather to go home.

I've worked out our route to go home - one A4 page of intsructions for my mum to read at strategic points on the route home.

Now i need to sign off and pack the computer away to go home.

9.35pm
Well we're now back at home in Lambanana Land ;-D

We left the cottage at about 2.20pm, mum knocked on next door where the owners live but there was no answer so she put the key through the door and left a note too.

I had to go and get fuel first so i did that and then we wre off to the motorway. I'd written some directions to go home and we did surprisingly well - didn't need the sat nav at all :-)

We stopped at Annandale Water as intended and we went out to feed the ducks :-) We had 3 ducks who decided they'd get more food if they came and stood on the side of the pond bit so i was feeding them by hand and my mum was feeding the ones in the water ;-D We then went and bought a few bits in the shop before heading back to the car.

We then carried on and stopped again at another services a while later. As we were heading into the place we saw a family coming out and the girl had a cat sitting on her shoulder ;-D The cat had a harness and lead on so obviously they'd taken their cat on holiday with them ;-D We just wandered round there for a bit and didn't actually buy anything.

After that we were on the final leg home and i thought we were home and dry. I got to J26 on the M6 for the M58 but the sun was actually shining brightly in my eyes at that point :-o :-o :-o It was so distracting i actually made a hash of the 2nd roundabout to get onto the M58 and i ended up back on the M6 heading in the direction i'd just come from 8| 8| Obviously i had to go back for one junction and then go back again - and do it right!!!

Once i was actually on the M58 i knew where i was and we went for tea at a pub that i've driven past many times but never tried. It was ok but not great, we probably won't be going back there!

We got home at about 8.50 and unpacked the car and obviously we've not much much else since, apart from sorting out all our mail.