Life as a servant continues…….

……earlier this week our employers spent a few days here. They arrived with 5 suitcases which was 1 suitcase too many for our car – a lovely late model Honda Jazz. “I think we need something a little larger for you” said our employer – “I think a Audi A6”. This aforementioned car is for our personal use as well as being our work vehicle. We buy the petrol when we go traveling. With this in mind we reached a compromise and are changing our present car for an Audi A4 Estate. Anyway we went to look at cars on Friday. Work here is coming to an end but there is a push to get everything finished by the end of the month – yay! It took us half an hour to get out of the driveway. We had to get the following moved – a small digger, a truck, a large front end loader, a grader, another truck, another truck and several cars!
We have been worried about our lovely swan who we observed nesting for weeks and then she disappeared. We were walking along the stream (which becomes the mighty Thames) the other night and there they were, Mother, Father and 7 ugly ducklings – glorious.
It is a Bank Holiday weekend – sunny and warm – most unusual for Britain. We went to London for the day yesterday and it was magical…..everyone smiles and are really friendly and happy when the sun comes out. We strolled along South Bank and it was going “off”…..there were masses of buskers and on a small space of beach ‘youths’ were flinging themselves acrobatically backwards off the wall…a new urban youth artform???
There was a lady with two budgies who could tell your fortune (she says)…the budgies pick a card (any card!)…bit random! It was great to be in London.
We are going to a local gymkhana tomorrow apparently it’s totally “Thelwell”.
Lots of love xxxxxxx