Late in 2003 Janet reckoned she was going to have to be in KL for about 6 weeks as from March 2004. That fitted well with me wanting to do a leisurely trip to the UK, so I booked it up (as it turned out the KL business didn't materialise and Janet was left on her own for 8+ weeks) and started planning.

Few piccies here - see http://www.mikecurley-photos.netfirms.com/20040503.htm for those....

Priorities were to see Britta and Inga, then good old friends then look up people I hadn't seen for maybe 20 years or more or even longer - those I used to go to school with - 40 years ago!!

Lots of downloading of maps and checking of email addresses and telephone numbers etc - resulted in me having a fine document with this as a "plan". Basically I was wanting to do "a quick race round" (by bus) London to Taunton to Doncaster, back to London - to see Britta and Inga, then go off for a week's skiing, then "go round again" more leisurely, maybe hiring a car.......:

Saturday 28 Feb, 2004 - Singapore/Heathrow/Staplehurst-Kent - Up at 04:00AM - well done Bubsy (packing and organising) - taxi on-time - at Changi by 04:50AM

Stupid!! when checking in at Changi, I'd asked for a window seat.. they could give me one up to KL, but were unsure after there - check again in KL. Useless!! I got (31E) a middle seat of 4 - 11/12 cramped hours (slept for maybe 30 minutes) - horrid!! But - there I am - back in the UK after 4+ years...

Heathrow was bedlam (much worse than Kai Tak in the bad old days of Hong Kong) - millions of people (coming through the Green Section, we were 6 or 8 abreast, shuffling along (trolleys, suitcases etc..), and maybe 40 to 50 rows of us at any one time.... pushing out into more bedlam - thousands of meeters and greeters along both sides, maybe 3 or 4 deep pushing cards and placards into view.

Good old Brian Stoate had said he'd meet me at Heathrow airport early in the morning of 28th Feb and amazingly - there he was!! Good one!! More pushing and shoving towards the lifts - too much of a queue - back further into the Terminal, found another unused lift - went to the required floor - out into the multi-storey car park - more queues to pay for car-parking, during that queue Brian went over his 1 hour, I was frozen (it was only about 4 degrees) just standing there, then it was off to the X-Type Jaguar (very, very nice), and then have to wait to reverse out and follow the queue of cars out of the car park and airport - bloody awful!!

Through the tunnel and onto the M4, getting into the slip road onto southbound M25 and ZIP!! a Smartcar came zipping along at about 70 mph, overtook us and zipped off out of sight - I'd never seen one - and got all the details from Brian - what a great idea!!

After the road restrictions we got going on the M25 - and chatting (missed the turnoff for Services where I could have bought my UK SIM Card - never mind) - the X-Type - very nice car!

As it turned out, the whole trip seemed to revolve around "people moving houses", and as a starter Brian and Vonnie had already moved out of their house (but were unable to move into their new one). So they were staying with Andrea (daughter) and Marc and their young daughter Amilie in Kent - and here was their long-lost lodger from the East!! Great seeing them all again - some Shampop and dinner, chitty-chat and off to bed by 23:00.

29 Feb, 2004 - Kent - Chitty-chatting in the morning (Marc and Andy working very hard in the kitchen) and at 12:30 Tabitha (daughter) and James arrive with their very new daughter Poppy - for a fab lunch - beef, chicken loads of veggies, shampop and wine - great!! The visitors leave around 18:00 and then more chitty-chatting until 22:00.

1 March, 2004 - Kent/London/Taunton - Woke at 06:00AM - packed, made tea and then it was a "commuting Monday morning" with Brian.... Had snowed overnight (not much) - and it was cold (for me). At 07:30AM off out into the cold cold world - me dragging my case, only a short walk to Staplehurst railway station - but - millions of people queuing to buy newspapers and/or weekly/monthly train passes and tickets. We had to miss one train before I was served, and then with big case and backpack onto a crowded commuter train (which was deathly quiet - no one talking) - heated to the eyeballs - hooray!! Brian gets off at London Bridge and I go on to Cannon Street. Out of there and buy my SIM card - I can now SMS Bubsy and tell her to phone me!! Except that I cannot get the blooming thing to work.... get on a tube to  Victoria and walk to the Coach Station - make sure where my bus goes from and go to get some breakfast (Subway - good).... try to get the SIM card to work again - cannot take it to a shop and I notice that he keeps putting it to his ear... and then says - "seems OK". What I'd been doing was...... reading the written instructions - that told me to open the phone - remove the old card, unpack the new one and install it - dial 789 (or whatever) and follow instructions..... I'd been expecting the "instructions" to come up on the screen - didn't realise they'd be be audible (through the phone) - so I'd been watching the screen - nothing happening - not working!! Silly sod!

Back to the Coach Station onto the bus and off through West London - still the same - still the same traffic congestion - but who cares - I'm on a bus. Janet calls good! Stops at Heathrow and elsewhere..

Arrive at Taunton exactly on time 16:30 - and there is little Brittsy - jumping up and down, clapping her hands - great!!

White Thunder - the trusty Peugeot is just up the street - hooray less people, nice late afternoon, drive for 2 minutes and we're at Brittsy and Mattie's flat - right in the heart of Taunton. Zini (the Gatekeeper) - Britta's little black cat - is at her post on top of the gatepost, waiting for someone to come home. Chitty-chat, cups of tea etc.. then we realise Mattie will not be home until 19:30 so we cannot open the Shampop until then - so have to go out to get some Vodka - to bridge the time-gap. Matt arrives home - very nice man, sensible, likes a laugh and very straight/honest - into the Shampop then off out to The Sanctuary (nice restaurant in walking distance), home and to bed....

2 March, 2004 - Taunton - Woke around 06:00AM, read in bed, saw Matt off to work (someone has to - work I mean) - fiddle-faffed around with Brittsy until 09:00, then it was off walking around Taunton (delivering) - things to the Bank and Estate Agent - because they were in the process of trying to buy a new house and sell their flat!! Saw lots of historic Taunton - then into a nice tea-room above a design shop near the big central round-about. warmed up then walked back to the flat and it was off out in White Thunder - a tour around Britta's scenic Somerset!!

It was a lovely bright, sunny day (although cold), and after about 30 minutes of driving down one-track (with passing-places) roads, deep in hedgerows, ducking and diving over hills and down into valleys - there we were at Tumbelweed in Capton - the cottage Britta stayed in since 2001. How she - or anyone ever found it - or Capton - I'll never know - wonderful setting, brilliantly "buried" in good-old England.

Then it was a bit more "touristy" - to Dunster, lovely village, castle etc... had a pub lunch in a historic old place (which we would return to in a few weeks time).

To the beach - very pebbly (saw 2 Harrier jump-jets screaming off over the Bristol Channel) and then to Porlock for tea (in a tea-room with a roaring fire), then back to Relyon to pick up Mattie by 17:00, home for drinks then off out for Wonton Noodle Buffet, home and to bed.

3 March, 2004 - Taunton - Woke around 07:00AM - tea and chatting with Brittsy, Matt delivers the car back around 09:00AM (he goes off to London).

Brittsy said we had to do an Exmoor walk - but the weather wasn't with us - cold and overcast. We checked with the pub in Brendon that they were open and that if we walked down to them we'd get a lunch - then drove back to the top of Exmoor, parked and set off. The first bit was fine - bit cold and windy, but soon got down into a small river valley - and after an hour or so right down into the bottom of the valley where we had a lovely pub lunch (Ham, Egg and Chips in Brendon) and dried out/warmed up. But after all that we had to walk back up to the top of the moors and find our little car - it was blowing a gale and sleety/rain was almost horizontal. We eventually found "White Thunder" - took off all our wet clothes - jumped in - up with the heater - and zoomed off home - feeling as though we'd survived an Arctic winter.  Poor Brittsy said her outer coat was OK - but she later bought a North Face Anorak, so I reckon she was well cold/drenched.

We got back home half dressed and still a bit cold, but Mattie was there - the fire was on - wonderful!! People were coming to view the flat so we tried to clean ourselves up - 17:45 they arrived - mother and daughter, liked the place - obviously - and then it was bar-opening time - Mattie went off to the Gym and Brittsy and I after bath/shower were in bed by 21:00.

4 March, 2004 - Taunton/Doncaster - Woke at 06:00AM Matt was just off to work, read 'til 07:00AM, tea with Brittsy, sent her off to work by 07:30, then I packed, walked up the High Street - got a cash infusion - phoned Roger Fieldhouse to let him know I'm underway and would see him tomorrow. The 09:00AM bus was late (cold waiting), but half full. After 40 minutes we stopped at Bristol, a further 1.5 hours and we changed buses at Birmingham, 40 minutes to Nottingham, and on-time into Doncaster.

Ingy arrives after 10 minutes, and off we go in her little red Peugeot past where she's working and living (Austerfield) - to Bawtry and the Crown Hotel - where Inga has done a good deal and got me a room for only 50 quid (instead of 90+) - well done Ing!! Into the bar and a few drinks - chitty-chat (the whole hotel is being refurbished - and the bar looks like a bomb has hit it - used to have (apparently) lots of pictures on the wall but they were all sold yesterday and all that's left is holes and hooks all over every wall - weird!)

Anyway - its only a 2 minute walk along the High Street (still cold!!) to "Zini's" Italian restaurant (where Inga had a table booked for 20:00) which was excellent!! Lots of noise, very lively, lovely food - good time!! 22:00 Ing bombs off home in a taxi and I go off to bed...

5 March, 2004 - Doncaster/Barnsley - Woke at 07:00 and read, walked down High St, bought a couple of bottles of Shampop, took piccies of Bawtry - check-out and am waiting outside when Rog and Elaine arrive at 11:00.

Drive across to Barnsley, into Supermarkets - have a sandwich in there and off home - Rog & Elaine have only been in this house for a few months - but its well settled and nicely turned out - and well guarded by "the dogs" - Charlie and Calley - I get unpacked and off we go to JR & Cynthia's place just down the road - chitty-chat. Inga comes over for the evening (Rog and I drove to the outskirts of Barnsley to meet her and direct her back) and weekend..

A few drinks then we're off out for a "pub-dinner" (Crown and Anchor?) - steak etc.. very nice - Elaine - not drinking - good - drives us home - to bed...

Satrurday 6 March, 2004 - Barnsley - Lazy day.. breakfast with Inga, then to supermarket to buy food/drink for tonight, wander round Barnsley shops then in the evening Rog cooks a great dinner - Roast Beef, Yorkshire Pudding and veggies - excellent!! did we go visit Roger's mum and dad (in their 90's) but both still very sprightly and with-it - nice meeting them both.

7 March, 2004 - Barnsley/Leeds - Inga and I bomb across to Austerfield and I meet Hannah, with whom Inga has been sharing a rented house for the past couple of months.

Phone Maggie Leng - OK to visit in a couple of days?? She says yes - good!

Then a fast drive over to Leeds, park in Headingley - cold and windy and rainy. we walk round the pleasant town centre (lots of pedestrian walkways) and Ing points out the Uni buildings - we have lunch (Lamb Shank) at 16:00 in Cafe Rouge (slow service), then its back to Rog & Elaine's and Inga races back to Austerfield.

8 March, 2004 - Barnsley - Would you Adam and Eve it?? Elaine getting Rog jumping through hoops - I can understand, but there I am sitting chatting - all unsuspecting - and up comes the topic of "garden fences".... pretty innocuous I reckon - so I'm into the topic with a zest - silly sod!! Watch where you're going, beware of pitfalls and traps!!

All their fencing is a sort of Terracotta colour - which Elaine reckons would be "more in keeping" if it was sort of dark oak! Now all this entails is - six-foot high fencing down both side and the bottom o0f the property, the garden shed, and all the fencing  around the terrace.

So this morning we're out there, covering up the unacceptable Italian colour! (little do I know this will run and run...) and then Rog and I are off (first to get some hand-made sandwiches - excellent) and then for golf (I haven't played for years) - but really enjoyed it!

A short rest, then at 20:00 Rog and I are off with his good mate Wade, down the Conservative Club for an evening of Snooker - this I also haven't played for years - and was crap then anyway - but the banter and drinking were very enjoyable!

9 March, 2004 - Barnsley - Told you it ran and ran...Elaine is off to the hairdressers, Rog is off to the Snooker again (regular weekly meeting) and there I am - painting the bloody fences!! No breakfast, 0nly a bun for lunch and just as the sun is going down - and I cannot see what I'm painting - they all return.

Rog cooks a great fry-up (eggs, bacon, baked beans etc..) - we watch Man Utd getting stuffed by Porto - and to bed!

10 March, 2004 - Barnsley - JR and Cynthia come round - to try and book (via the Internet a long weekend in Corsica (oh how the retired enjoy themselves!!)). Then its off over to Rog's mum and dad - hope I'm as sprightly and "with-it" as they both are - when I'm 90+!! Congratulations Mr & Mrs Fieldhouse!! And thanks for the teas and hospitality.

Inga drives over in the late PM and we all go out for dinner - my treat (Beatson House) !! Why is it my treat - I've just painted half of Barnsley!!

11 March, 2004 - Barnsley/Doncaster/Woodford - Up early (06:00AM) - Inga runs us back to Doncaster where I'm thrown out (Doncaster rush hour - cannot stop) at the bus station - waiting for the bus "south" - Ing has to get off to work! (work?? - not really).

Very cold waiting for the London bus - went into the "sort-of" waiting room - it was a bit heated at least!

Into London on time (saw the "Congestion Zone" markers) then a cup of tea in the same Subway place as last week, then tube-it to Woodford and there is Maggie Leng in her little red Rover car - after 43+ years!! looking just as I remember her!!

Well done Maggie!!

No time to Chitty-chat - into the car and off... 5 minutes later we're at her house in Woodford - and then its time for gossip and chitty-chat - brilliant!! 43+ years covered (in a sort of "summarised way") in a couple of hours and then its off for an Italian dinner - great place (again - very noisy, very busy, lovely food) Well done Maggie - good choice! We walk there and back (cold!!) more tea and chatting and then bed.

12 March, 2004 - Woodford/Kent - Woke early and read in bed, and then luxury of luxuries - Maggie brought tea in bed!! Shower, bacon sarnie in the kitchen and we're off up London-sightseeing!! What a good day - London as "visitors see it" - Thanks Maggie for this...

To St Pauls on the Central Line (I used to go there every weekday for 2 years back in 1960/1961) - round to the front of St Paul's - they're cleaning (or doing something to it)

  <---- this is how it looks really - taken in 1965 (even then they were doing something up at the dome) - whereas in 2004...

 they'd covered just about the whole thing up - but very cleverly put a "sketch/painting" of what the front facade looked like.

Just over my right shoulder is Creed Lane - where I started  my second appointment within The Times after a few weeks in the Messengers Department - still same as I remember it!

Round to the Wobbly Bridge (don't know its new name) footbridge over to the South Bank - Globe Theatre (very impressive), Tate Modern (very impressive), walk along the South Embankment, then over  to Bush House (very impressive) and then into Covent Garden for lunch in and Italian Bistro (excellent), and then (brilliant) walked to The Mall, Downing St and Churchill's Bunker - this was really good!!

Tubed it back to Woodford and a cup of tea and then I had to get back to Cannon St for 17:00 to meet Brian from work and onto his commuter train back to (his new house - they'd moved in (a bit) by now) Marden - lovely house - waiting for some furniture etc.., and then we were off out for a pub dinner (Bull Inn).

Lots of packing..... because......

Saturday 13 March, 2004 - Kent/La Plagne - Up at 05:45 and Brian and I on the road by 06:10,  in the punchy X-Type..... filled up with petrol in Dover then onto the ferry and into Langan's Brasserie for breakfast, tried to buy a map of France - failed - but then we were off on lovely smooth French Autoroutes in the punchy X-Type - A26 to Rheims, A4 & A26 to Troyes, A5 to Langres, A31 to Dijon, A6 to Lyon got a bit mixed up here and caught a lot of traffic then the A43 to Chambery and Albertville to La Plagne by 19:00 (9 hours driving) - met up with Bob Morris who got us into the apartment in Plagne Soleil - very small, but Ok for 1 or 2 (says it can sleep 6 - wouldn't like that!!) - across to Monica's - one of the 3 restaurants in our little enclave - busy, noisy, warm - good food and drink! Gargantus Monicas €43.00

604 miles Calais to La Plagne in 9 hours - 67mph.

14 March, 2004 - La Plagne - First day of skiing - across to get boots/skis, lift passes etc (€326.00).. brilliantly clear and sunny day (clouded up in the PM) - took it easy - found our way around - good easy family skiing - easy!! Lovely! lunch in Gargantus Monicas €24.50 and dinner in Le Baryon €58.50.

15 March, 2004 - La Plagne - Another brilliant day - Bob Morris said he'd give us a "guided tour" - so we met up with him and his Mrs (Maureen) as well as Nobby and his Mrs - what a great day. Met up with Richard and Nin and Lee - had dinner with them - also skii'd with Dave and Sue from Bristol.

16 March, 2004 - La Plagne - Another brilliant day, skii'd with Lee and Richard until lunch time, then it was Happy Hour and Pizza.

17 March, 2004 - La Plagne - Another brilliant day - spent a lot of time finding and sunbathing in Dave & Sue's recommended Cafe - must have been 20 degrees C or more in the sun - brilliant! Happy Hour and dinner in Le Gargantus Monicas (€60.00)......

18 March, 2004 - La Plagne - Slow start - only out by 11:10 and finished by 14:00, including lunch at Plagne Centre. Brian cooked Spaghetti and we stayed in. Overnight - the hot water heater started leaking..

19 March, 2004 - La Plagne/Kent - We decide to cut our losses - maybe no hot water for our last day - also we were starting to slow down - so we decided to leave one day early - said bye-bye to Maureen and Bob - a better drive back but the Ferry was all mucked up - gales apparently - but we were in Langan's again - and didn't notice any turbulence. Home to Brian & Vonney's by 21:30.

601 mile La Plagne to Calais, 9 hours 40 minutes - 62 mph.

Saturday 20 March, 2004 - Kent - domestics.... laundry - propping up fences blown down by the gales - tried to hire a car, but nothing (cheap) available until Monday morning - pub dinner - taxi there and back - Brian throws a wobbler!!

21 March, 2004 - Kent - Sorting out "the garage". Lots of boxes (from the move) still not unpacked - tried moving them out onto the driveway but intermittent rain meant we were moving them backwards and forwards more than achieving any redistribution. Chucked a lot of stuff into the Kent equivalent of a dump-site - this was a dump truck which stationed itself at specific locations at specific times - you could chase it round if you missed. The through the lanes - past the old Stoate Acres, to Tunbridge Wells and Tabitha, James and Poppy. Their house is bigger on the inside than on the outside - a regular Tardis and very stylish!

Back for Vonnie's lamb chops for dinner.

22 March, 2004 - Kent/Penn - Brian off to work, stayed with Vonnie in the morning - out for messages, then odd-job man arrived and the hire-car was available at 13:30 (£99.00 per week) so a little Vauxhall Corsa (1 litre) and I'm driving again - first time for a few years (Petrol £24.35). To Beaconsfield Waitrose for Shampop and flowers for Jan, then up to Wheeler Avenue where we used to live - looks remarkably unchanged - just snooped around, then to Manor Road and Eric Richford and Jan Richford our next door neighbours for years... great to see them both after so long and they were very welcoming - many thanks!

Their bedroom was being re-furbished so they were using the guest-suite, so I was relegated to the next bedroom down - still very acceptable (I wasn't complaining!). Then it was back into the old routine - Shampop and chatting in the sun-lounge. Out to Leigh House Chinese restaurant for dinner - Jason and Mickey did the chauffeuring there - but it was a taxi on the return.

23 March, 2004 - Penn - Weird waking up and looking out the window to see our old house through the trees, think there's a garage complex where the cherry tree used to be.  Then it was off out with Eric in his rocket-ship SL500 to Reading for some errands - lunch in the Bird in Hand pub near Sonning. Back by 16:00, chatting and drinking, Jan made pasta.

24 March, 2004 - Penn - Eric had some more errands to run - so it was off in the rocketship again - this time over to Cambridge to his house developments - he's built some lovely homes over there - well done Eric! Lunch was in a pub (The Cock - don't know where) and then home to Penn. More Shapop and I bought dinner at Sontela in Beaconsfield - excellent.

25 March, 2004 - Penn/Hayes/Wheatley - Many thanks to Eric and Jan - then off (they were going to Spain soon) - firstly round to Brickwell walk (couldn't find it initially) - we lived there before Wheeler Ave. Then to Amersham crematorium to see where my mum was scattered - very peaceful - nice (with all the daffadidiloes and other spring flowers) - to Tesco in Amersham and lots of phoning to see who I could presume upon next. Brian Lewis is OK for lunch tomorrow (Oxford), and Malcolm Shuttleworth is OK for lunch on the 27th (Wiltshire).

Drove down the A412 to Denham - drove down Tilehouse way - saw 131 - looks like the driveway has been tarmac'd (good idea), and there were lots of statues of cats all over the place. Saw Steve Warren, but I'd gone past before I realised it was him - talking to a lady and then by the time I'd turned around they were inside a house. Turned around in the flats where Les and Regina lived, back up to Higher Denham - past the airport and to my mum's old people's home - very flash now - security gates etc...

Down the A40 (should have popped in to see if Mick Burrell was at home) through Uxbridge and Hillingdon to Hayes, turned left before the old Rec. down to Hurstfield Crescent (very small - not the way I remember it from ages 5 to 11 - too many cars now) - but 71 was still looking OK. To the cross-roads on Lansbury Drive, (fish shop is still a fish shop) left (Grange Park school looked as though it was being modified) towards where Geoff Barrow lived (and Mr Howett the dentist had his practice - looks derelict now) - up to T junction with the Hayes/Harrow road - turn right along to the Grapes pub - big cross-roads there now, down Coldharbour Lane (Townfield School seemed to have disappeared - has it been knocked down??) to Hayes town - big one-way system there - I think the railway bridge has been knocked down - so had to go via the back of EMI and over that bridge, past what was Fairey Aviation - but is now mostly Safeway and DHL - down North Hyde Rd, past 95 (it has 2 garages now) and the same front door - back through Hillingdon and Uxbridge to M40 to Days Inn at Wheatley - booked in for 2 nights - Burger King for dinner - did lots of laundry in the bath!

26 March, 2004 - Wheatley/Sonning - I didn't realise that the hotel I'd booked into was so close to Brian Lewis - it really was only 2 miles down the road - that didn't prevent me getting totally lost in Wheatley - but with the trusty Mobile I was able to sort it out. There he was outside waiting - would have recognised him easily - straight out (walking) to his local pub - low beams etc.. sandwiches and Spritzers, then back to his place for more chit-chat and tea. Around 16:00 I was off again - this time to see if the Hicks' were still living in Sonning. Camilla opened the door - and amazingly she sort of recognised me - last time we'd met she could only have been about 6 or 7 - what a clever girl!!

Maureen was shopping in Waitrose and returned soon after the first cup of tea... lots of chit chat - the the first Voddie and the next - phones Roger to warn him I'm there - they decide I have to stay (may have drunk too much anyway by now) - brilliant. Roger comes home - lots of stories and chit-chat, Maureen rustles up some pasta, a lovely evening! But wasted 50 quid on the second night in the Motel!!

Saturday 27 March, 2004 - Sonning/Wiltshire/Littlehampton - Roger brings tea in bed and around 10:00 they are off to their boat on The Hamble. I race across country to the Motel at Wheatley - to check out and ensure I don't get charged for a third night!!

Malcolm Shuttleworth  lives in Baydon in Wiltshire - he recommends a cross-country route (Oxford Ring Road, Newbury then M4) - brilliant - am there on time - after 25+ years! he has a big house which is being decorated so its straight out (in his Mazda) to a local pub for a pleasant lunch then a bit of local sightseeing (he's well known in these parts). Many thanks for the offer of free accommodation Throstle - sorry I couldn't get there again - read on.....

So now it was off to Littlehampton - and Spares.... Walford (Wally) Pears. M4, A34 to M3, M27 (petrol at Emsworth, Hants - £20.46) then near Chandlers Ford onto A284, A259 and B2187 - phew....

Good old Spares is there - arrived about 17:00 for a cup of tea. Chitty chat - he suggests staying in - he'll cook (brilliant) - a curry (very nice - clever boy) - I'm on the red wine - he's on his "low power beer" - looks like piss! We try to fix my web-site (he doesn't like some of the comments about him and others) - cannot - give up, watch England get stuffed at soccer by the French - then some Golf and to bed by 23:00.

28 March, 2004 - Littlehampton - Up around 09:00 I plan to buy him dinner this evening, but first its 9 or was it 11 holes of pitch and putt (I let him win - because its cold and windy). Then in his swish APV a bit of Littlehampton sightseeing (Beach huts that sell for tens of thousands of pounds) etc.... Pub lunch in the centre of town. Back home - clocks have gone on 1 hour - watch cricket on TV India/Pakistan Sehwag was brilliant (Wally tells me - is that the right spelling??) and then he says - we have to eat in tonight - he's got some lamb chops (grilled) and salad - and so we watch golf until 23:00

Well done Wall!!

29 March, 2004 - Littlehampton/Fairford/Taunton - Leave Wall around 10:00Am into Littlehampton - get money - realise I'd left things at Wall's - drive back to his place - he's out - phone him - just as he's arriving back - he'd found what I'd left and chased after me - off again.... now - where to go...??

Tuckers are on the route - but cannot manage until 19-22 April - bugger!! Decide to see if the Kunheims are at home in Fairford, Gloucs. driving into Fairford - I thought I'd got the wrong village - didn't look familiar - until the square that their house is on appeared then I knew where I was. Parked and tried the front gates - no bell - and not unlocked. Round to the back entrance - able to walk into the garden and realise there is major renovation underway - lots of scaffolding and roof tiles spread all around. Try knocking and peering in - but obviously everybody is away. Scribble a note and push it under the front door. Bugger again!! Went into one of the antique shops just across from the front gate and enquire of the Kun's (remembered that Jane was at one time thinking of opening such a shop) - but the guy said he saw matt about 2 weeks ago organising wall repairs - but nothing since then.

Nowhere to go!! Have to dump myself on poor Brittsy and Matt in Taunton. Off down the M4 and get a bit lost in Taunton - Matt gives directions - and 5 minutes and I'm there - again!! Off to buy Voddie etc.. they've eaten already, but there's a bowl of the stew still left over - exe!! To bed!

30 March, 2004 - Taunton - Hear Matt going off to work at 06:30AM and then Brittsy at 07:30AM (she jogs into work through the park - how nice). Its such a brilliant day - I decide to go off and see if I can find where Inga lived/worked for the National Trust down in Cornwall. It takes 4 hours slow driving £19.94 Petrol - and although I'd got very detailed instructions - I missed completely Goonhilly Down (a massive radio telescope) - how could you miss that?? - and all of a sudden - there I was at England's most Southerly point - The Lizard!! Backwards and forwards up and down the main drag into The Lizard trying to find signs etc.. eventually - after driving through amazingly small roads that ducked and dived all over the place - through Poltesco and into the NT car park. what an amazing, fantastic area!! Get directions from a helpful NT guy - and walk from the car park over a bridge to Carleon House (where Inga and the NT volunteers stay(ed) along the track down to the pebbly beach - fantastic sea crashing in, then back in a circle to the NT buildings and car park. More chitty-chatting - with Eula Hardy (who Inga used to work with) and her young daughter - then off - back to Taunton.

3 hours back - to find Brittsy sitting in the back "garden" eating the remains of the stew - some drinks, Mattie comes home and we go off for a pizza (Brittsy has salad) at Pizza Express (£33.05) - excellent place - up-market pizza place!

31 March, 2004 - Taunton - Slobby day... Brittsy is working on her Interior Design course Project, Mattie had gone off to work again at 06:30AM. I get tea in bed at 09:30 and read until 10:00 - faffing and then out to a pub (up near the roundabout down a little lane near there) for lunch (Cheeseburger & Chips (for herself) and Baguette Club for me. Spoke to Simon Walker (in Singapore) and Brian Stoate, tried contacting Bassy.

Out to dinner at Brazz - very swanky-swish - Ghriff Reese Jones was at a nearby table (apparently) - Salmon to start and fish-cakes - very nice £59.57!

1 April, 2004 - Taunton - Brittsy and Mattie have to go to the solicitors at 09:00 to organise the sale/purchase of their new house etc... Phone Rog in Barnsley and tell him to be ready for boarders soon!

Off for a drive around Kilve - have a walk along the coast, drive to Bridgewater (too much traffic) - home by 15:30 - hang up some laundry on radiators, then Mattie is home - chitty-chat - raining when we go off out for dinner (I had Monk Fish - wrong!!) nice restaurant though Brettons £71.90. Walked back via new house in Laburnum Rd - exciting!!

2 April, 2004 - Taunton - woke late - they'd all gone to work (so they should!!) - slob around - tea etc... Zini asleep on my lap - then off up High Street to try to get moccasin type slippers - fail - but get something similar (Janet calls them Duck shoes £15.00 BHS) - because they look like duck's feet) - didn't find any DVD's also teeth whitener is only on prescription - just goes to prove what a crap shopper I am (hooray!). Mattie is home by 16:00 - lots of phoning to get guys in to give an estimate for fixing damp patches in the new house. Mattie got his wrist pain fixed by the physio at work - apparently a bone had popped out in the back of his hand/wrist area - all they did was pull the hand away from the wrist - and push down on the bone - he was soooooo happy!

Brittsy gets home - drinks and chitty-chat - then its off (quite a walk) to an Indian at 19:00 - good - I think they bought!! Even better!

Saturday 3 April, 2004 - Taunton/Barnsley - Saturday - they should have the weekend to themselves!! Mattie is already at work when I zoom off around 09:30 - Brittsy may do some packing in preparation for the house move (which is still not confirmed) - I'm off up the M5 - nice easy driving 60 mph - sunny mostly - but rained around 16:00. Arrive at Rog and Elaine's around 17:30 - Rog has been playing snooker with "the boys" since lunch time - bit pissed - but the bar opens promptly at 18:00!!

Drinking, chitty-chat - Rog cooks roast pork - excellent - to bed....

4 April, 2004 - Barnsley - Note the date!!!!!! 4/4/4!!! Off to see Rog & Elaine's caravan - stored for the winter in Penistone up on the moors. Under lock and key - looks to be weathering the winter well enough - BUT - amazingly a few weeks later it was stolen - and never recovered!! A clever "winterising" measure was to put bowls of salty water inside the caravan - apparently they soak up and condensation/moisture - clever!! Except that only aided the burglars!!

From there it was lunch at Curbley Hall (are they sure they've spelled that right??) - the Blue Room - nice place - nice sandwiches etc... and then back home to..... its still running and running.....

More fence painting - all 3 of us - also Rog trying to fix the security light out back with elastic-bands - well done Rog - another Bodge-Job to record!! Prior to the bodge - it wasn't coming on at all (on a timer) - we twiddled the dials this way and that - nothing seemed to work - but we left it coming on for 2 minutes - every 5 minutes. Beans on toast for dinner!! Good - not too filling!

5 April, 2004 - Barnsley - Golf with JR and Rog - its 2 rounds of a 9 hole course and I and Rog go round in 84!! Drop JR off - go for some sandwiches for lunch, and then its outside again - re-fixing the security light - no great advances as far as we can see - give up!! Round to the local Ford dealer - Rog wants to upgrade his Mondeo - got a quote, ran the dogs, home for a quick chicken casserole before Bob comes round - off to snooker with Wade in his new 3 litre 406 Peugeot (very smooth). Good bantering snooker evening with the boys until 23:00 then watch soccer on TV and off to bed.

6 April, 2004 - Barnsley/Suffolk - Clear up and pack and leave Rog & Elaine by 11:00. Grey, miserable, rainy day - down the A1/M1 - heading for Ken Johnston in Suffolk - petrol in Blyth, Notts £23.82).

Found Shottisham and the Sorrel Horse easily enough - but couldn't raise anybody inside the locked-up pub. No cars in the car park - drove off to nearest Travelodge about 20 miles away. Very heavy rain also heavy traffic - and the Motel is full - she phones around and finds another a further 20 miles further on Ipswich Beacon Hill and books me in there.

Drink half the voddie and orange that I took away from Rog & Elaine's (they didn't want it) - called Ken - fix up for 11:00 tomorrow, to Little Chef for a Cheese Omelette less 20% discount because of Travelodge reservation - asleep by 21:30

7 April, 2004 - Shottisham/Shingle Street - Breakfast in Little Chef then went completely the wrong way for the first 20 minutes - realised my mistake (had thought I was in the first Travelodge) - cut across country - all very pleasant - got to Ken around 11:20 - and there he is - as chirpy as ever - but busy with pub landlord duties.... hello to Janet who is busy in the kitchen getting ready for the lunch-time trade, Ken is checking deliveries of booze and I don't know what else - nice roaring log fire - and a couple of Spritzers - chitty-chat. Ken fixes me up with Bed and Breakfast accommodation at Shingle Street at Charles and Charlotte Sykes - I can really recommend their place - very well done - ctsykes@hotmail.com or The Mansion, Shingle Street, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3BE Tel: 01394 411338.

the big long house right in the middle of the picture - what a front garden!!

Lots of customers for pub-lunch and by 14:30 most have gone - out in Ken's black Escort a bit of local sightseeing - Shingle Street, the supermarket for some messages, then to an old Manor that was used for Radar development during WW2. Back to the pub, chatting with Janet waiting for lovely Claire (helps out behind the bar) to arrive at 18:30 - Customers were starting to arrive - but doors weren't open - Ken hadn't put his clocks forward so was still thinking it was 17:10.

To save me drinking and driving - Ken and I drove to Shingle Street and left my car there - and back to Shottisham for the evening. Lovely Steak and Kidney pie dinner from Janet (clever girl!!) - then around 23:00 Ken runs me back to Shingle Street. Lovely warm bed (electric blanket) - sleep like a log!!

8 April, 2004 - Shottisham/Shingle Street/Beccles/Milden Hall - Sun streaming into the hallway when I go for morning ablutions - around 09:00 tea in kitchen with family Sykes - upstairs for views from the tower, then I'm off out along the beach - very impressive - big, wide, open landscape. Back to Shottisham - thanks for the detailed map Charles - stop to enjoy the countryside - pheasant picking and clucking just in front of the car - phone Chris Ward - is he OK for later on today - yes, yes... - in Sorrel Horse by 11:00, cup of tea, lunch-time crowd arriving - I say my goodbyes... and off to Beccles, Norfolk. Petrol £20.20 - Just about find Chris's place but not quite (have to phone him) - meet Jean his wife and chitty-chat for a couple of hours - what a good set up they have - built the house, look after 2 old ladies, Jean does hairdressing, Chris makes bird-boxes etc... and he teaches Karate - very varied, and all in nice peaceful surroundings.

Chris has to zoom off around 16:15 so I zoom off then too and aim for the Travelodge at Milden Hall/Barton Mills  - What great "horsey" country on the way - very prosperous!!

Looks like a Little Chef dinner tonight - with wine!! Brittsy says they're not moving until 16th of the month, but are packing - I said I'd get to them around 17:00 tomorrow.... Scampi and wine for dinner.

9 April, 2004 - Milden Hall/Taunton - woke around 08:00AM - then suddenly it 09:55 - bloody hell!! Then Shower doesn't work!! Bugger! On the road soon after - an overcast day but notice the fields are steaming and a mist/fog is developing. After about 1 hour - the sun has burnt (not really the right word - more like teased!!) the mist/fog off - and what a great/brilliant day it turned into!!

Tried to not use motorways - and did I see some lovely country...??

A11 to near Newmarket, then A14 to near Cambridge, A428 to Eaton Sutton, A1 and then A421 south of Bedford, across M1, left onto A421 towards A4095 round Bicester to Witney, to Farringdon, onto A417 to a right turn onto A420 then near Swindon left onto A419 down to the M4 then head west to Taunton - great!! Petrol at Yeovil £19.08.

Arrived around 17:30 - drinks and out for a Pizza Express £41.85 - back home and watched Rugby until 22:15 - bed!

Saturday 10 April, 2004 - Taunton -  Went round to view the new house - excellent - 3 levels, well appointed (paint colour-scheme (Yellow) a bit overpowering) - but an obvious - good buy! Met Mattie's mum Maralyn and Margaret & Julian. Back home then Dave picks us up for a boozy evening with the family at his and Maralyn's house - very silly, very enjoyable - many thanks for the hospitality!!

11 April, 2004 - Taunton - Played golf (Oake Manor) with Mattie, his brother Phil and Alan (£119.75) - very enjoyable even though I came third!! Florian had arrived by bus from London and he was there in the bar after the golf - excellent. Then just the 4 of us - out to Pizza Express again £54.75!

12 April, 2004 - Taunton - Waiting for Inga to arrive (she and Ben have been on hols in Spain) - she duly does arrive around 10:30 - chitty-chat then its off to the West Somerset Railway £54.00 - brilliant/excellent - all the old rolling stock - steam engines and diesel still running to a timetable for the people in the area - through fabulous countryside. 1 hour to Dunster (said we'd return) - lunch in the garden of the pub Britta and I were in earlier - lovely hot day - good food and drink. walk around the town again then use the free (old) buses back to the railway, this time a diesel home...

Tried to get in for dinner in a few places (Monday - quiet - some restaurants don't open) - only The Moat House could take us £54.45.

13 April, 2004 - Taunton - Brittsy insisted that we walk The Quantocks... (she, Inga, Florian and I 0 everybody else was working). Another great day!! Drove in Inga's and my cars to the finish-end of the walk - left Inga's car buried in deepest Somerset. Then we drove to a lovely thatched pub The Blue Ball at Triscombe (£75.60) (start of the walk) - great lunch - fabulous day - up onto the Medieval Road, through the gorse and heather amongst the sheep, eventually down to Inga's car - then back for mine and home.

Inga cooked Lasagne (clever girl!!) - Fab day!

14 April, 2004 - Taunton - Florian and I sleeping in the lounge - bloody people upstairs had a party!! Very noisy - bastards!! quiet start to the morning.... but it turns into a lovely day - we're waiting for Ben to arrive and move the table and chars outside so we can have an al fresco lunch - works well! No Ben yet...and I have to go off on a rendezvous in a lovely part of the country - all of which turned out brilliantly and I was home again by 23:30 - Florian asleep on the floor! try not to wake him.....

15 April, 2004 - Taunton - There's a commotion in the kitchen - I wake up to find Inga and Ben having coffee - "what o'" Ben - first meeting, bit difficult because others are trying to sleep... tall nice guy.. more chitty-chats and then Inga decides she needs to see where she would like to "teach" - part of her upcoming "teacher-training in Exeter" is to work in schools - and she needs to pick a couple of towns/areas - where she's OK to do that.... so why don't we go and check out a few places....??

We (Inga, Ben, Brittsy, Florian and me) all pile into the Corsa and off... lots of driving but - did we check out Totnes first?? drove into the grounds of a private school - reckoned Ing could handle that - but the area wasn't so brilliant for bed-sits and flat-renting. Anyway - we were more interested in Dartmouth - what a great place!! That'll do nicely we decided!!

On the way back (is that true??) we stop in Dartington and buy Janet's presents - home by about 18:00 - drinks then with Mattie - off out to Brazz (or was it Pizza Express again??)

16 April, 2004 - Taunton - Florian's birthday - poor guy!! Because it was also - house moving day!!

Mattie and I up early and at 07:30 loading boxes into a van he'd rented. Others are up - Dave and Phil arrive - lots of carrying to and fro the van - finished by 12:30. Now - the stupidity of the UK way of buying a house - we drive round to the new place - but "Completion" has no occurred - so we don't have keys to get in, nor are we legal owners. Eat sandwiches in the van, chitty-chat... waiting for Britta, who is with the Solicitors, to phone saying "we've completed - and I've got the keys"...

A lady arrives at the house and goes inside - turns out she's the "current" owner and Britta and Matt have asked her to remove some furniture that they don't want - she's very helpful - and once her stuff is out - she just leaves the keys with us and we start unloading. an hour or two later - we completed - legally!

Big problems moving big items in through the front and back doors (through the garden) - eventually one large sofa/bed has to be given away to Alan - no way it'll go in - shame!!

Return the van by 18:00, back to the new house - and out to dinner at Brazz (£130.79) - Brittsy and I go on home - but Florian, Inga, Mattie and Ben have to squeeze the only bit of Florian's birthday celebration in - well done!!

Saturday 17 April, 2004 - Taunton - Lazy day in the new house - take Florian to the bus station for his return to Germland, Inga and Ben cook Mexican - well done!!

18 April, 2004 - Taunton -  leave Ben and Inga in the new house...they pack and zoom off (to Aberystwyth??) at their own pace -  Mattie, Britsy and I drive to Newton Ferrers (near Northampton) - they are going to buy a Doberman dog - and are going to view a litter of them. 16 in the litter - its just a mass of heaving black and brown - they select one - it gets "tagged" leave it with its mother for another few weeks...... Spend 2 hours there - then drive back - back by 18:30 - a Sunday on the town - only Brazz is open - so in we 3 go (£74.03)!! In bed by 22:30.

19 April, 2004 - Taunton/Fleet - Britta and Matt are off to work early - me packing and off by 10:00 - to Tucker Towers in Fleet Hampshire. Got a bit lost in Fleet High Street but soon found their house - had been there last with Janet about 1993 or 1994. Paul's mum - Jessie was there - great to see her looking so well and sprightly - Dorothy was out shopping, but lots of chatting on her return. Cheese/Pate etc... lunch and off to the Post Office to send a package containing "all my worldly possessions" to Singapore. It weighed 15 Kilos and I wanted it sent the cheapest, slowest way possible - the counter guy said it'd take about 6 weeks and cost 96 Pounds (wow!) - anyway I had to do it... off it went. (When I arrived back in Singapore on 2nd May - they'd tried to deliver it, no-one home - if not claimed within 21 days - it'd be sent back - time was almost up!! I have a fight -still ongoing - with the Post Office.... did I pay for an Air mail service that I didn't want??).

Paul and Dorothy have built onto their house - a full-sized snooker table/games room - he still has his recording studio in the garage complex - and we played a couple of games of snooker. Took Jessie back home and into Pam (Paul's sister) and Tony for tea - lovely to see them again - but poor old Tone has had some heart problems recently - lost 3 stone in weight - and is taking it easy for now - on the road to recovery!

20 April, 2004 - Fleet - Dorothy off out to a golf tournament - she's ladies captain this year, Paul and I chatting and doing our emails. After lunch Paul and I drive the Mini-Cooper to the golf course - exchange it for the Toyota (will not get vandalised as much as the Mini, where we're going) - to London to Paul's son Phil and his wife Simone then round to next son Dave and his wife Sacha - round to their local pub for a few - good to see them all and that they're so "entrpreneurial" - good luck boys and girls!!

Back to Fleet by 23:00

21 April, 2004 - Fleet - Snooker - then I'm off over to Tony and Pam Hird near Windsor. Good to see them again (not since South Africa..?? in 1973 (or did Tony and I meet up more recently around Uxbridge (think so)) - What a lovely house and view out the back garden they have - Crown Land to the horizon just about - sat outside in the sun - then off to a pub for some lunch. Lots of chitty-chat and then I'm off back to Tucker Towers.

22 April, 2004 - Fleet - Snooker then round to Guildford and son Simon (at work) and Debbie's place to see little Oscar (what an energetic and lovely boy). I buy dinner at Italian - great noisy place - Zizzi's in the High Street.

23 April, 2004 - Fleet/Sonning - Finish off the snooker (I didn't get enough free points!! I mean.... anybody who has a snooker table at their home should be "fairly good" - whereas someone who only plays once every 8 years will be fairly crap. I'd have expected maybe 100 free-points per game - but only ever managed to scavenge 10 to 15 - always was mean!!) - having said that - I won!! 3 games to 2!! Na, na, na, ne, nahhhhhh!! A quick lunch then Dorothy and Paul are off to visit Julie (Dorothy's sister) (Hi Julie!!) - I drive over to Sonning to burden the Hicks' again - lovely day - I arrive in Sonning a bit early - so park near the French Horn and do a bit of snooping - lovely place! The its round to Maureen and Roger's place by 17:30 - great to see the kiddie-winks again - Camilla, Charlotte and Oliver - but so much bigger than 10 to 15 years ago!!

Round to The Bull for dinner - pleasant "villagy" evening.

Saturday 24 April, 2004 - Sonning - To the Garden Centre early (in Roger's nice - hood-down SLK), followed by lots of "pond-work" - the pond/fountain on the terrace was not working and needed more plants (from the Garden Centre) - so lots of delving into murky water and trying this here - then there - Oliver mowing the lawn, the girls revising on the terrace - lovely warm, bright day - in an English garden - perfect.

The big event was a village "do" just along from the house in the Village Rooms (or whatever) - everybody had gone to such trouble (the ladies - including Maureen - had cooked all the food, wine was flowing) everybody well decked out a very friendly and enjoyable evening... cannot remember what "the aim/theme" was - Summer Solstice, or Start of Yachting Season or something.....

25 April, 2004 - Sonning/Fairford - Bit hung-over - not too bad... packing then off to Matt and Jane Kunheim in Fairford. They had been out of the house for quite a while (whilst the roof was relaid) had then gone skiing for 2 or 3 weeks and on their return had found my little message pushed under their front door, phoned and arranged....... They were having Jane's brother Joe and his wife Debbie (South African) over to get some info on South Africa (their upcoming holiday destination), and around 12:30 (after getting a bit lost around the Fairford Airfield) i found them sitting out on the lawn drinking Shampop!! Like nothing had changed!!

Lunch in the kitchen and then Joe and Debbie have to zoom off around 18:30 - dinner in the kitchen - lots of chitty-chat.

26 April, 2004 - Fairford - with Matt to check out a Land Rover he thinks he wants to buy. He does a fair amount of shooting apparently, and the Passat doesn't quite do the job. Lots of driving around the villages around Fairford (lovely area), test-drive the Freelander - take it to a friendly garage to have it inspected, walk home along the river through Fairford. Lunch then back to find out the "test" results - its a "no-no", deliver it back and then I buy dinner in a lovely pub - The Swan in Southrop.

27 April, 2004 - Fairford - Up a bit late - Matt is off playing tennis, don't know where Jane is... lunch and dinner in, Jane doing the ironing, domestic bliss.

28 April, 2004 - Fairford/St Leonards - Packing and off by 10:30 - Jane still in bed (bit ill/sniffly), comes down to say bye-bye, driving across country (Petrol in Oxford/Milton Keynes £27.78) to St Leonards and the Britts. Fairford, Lechlade, A361 to Swindon, A419 to M4 onto A346 onto A338 at Collingbourne Ducis it becomes A346 to Ludgershall, A342 to Andover, A303 to A34(S) to junction 9 of M3, M3(S) to junction 10 - A31 onto A272 then onto A267(S) and onto A271(E), A269 and look out for signs - Hastings and St Leonards. Lovely drive, lovely day - cannot find Alan and Mary Britt's hose - Mary has to come and rescue me. Up a private road and a collection of newish A Frame type house - very nice/pleasant, quiet... Haven't seen them for 43 years - but easily recognise - lots of chitty-chat, drinks then a lovely chicken dinner (well done Mary) - to bed by 23:30.

29 April, 2004 - St Leonards/Kent - Up a bit late - 09:45, chitty chat - cup of tea, best shower I had in the whole 8 weeks, ham & cheese sandwiches for an early lunch, on the road by 13:30 and an easy 90 minutes to Maidstone and Brain & Vonney. There by 15:00, Vonney had just arrived in, saw the "new" things - garden layout, dining room (table etc..) and lounge (furniture) - very nice - Brian was home early, drinks then we walked to a pub for dinner - The Chequers at Loose

30 April, 2004 - Kent - Tea at 07:00 (thanks Brian) - he's off to work... Vonnie and I return my hire car - 3,000 miles done!! Then over to Andrea's for tea with little Amelie, then in the Jeep to Tunbridge Wells and Tabitha/Poppy, tea there too. Chitty-chat - Vonnie and Andrea zoom off, Tabs and I get organised to go pick James up from commuter train, and drop me at Brian's hairdresser, where he's getting all poffed up. Brian and I off for a few drinks in Tunbridge Wells - good crowd, then a Pizza (crowded, had to queue) - drive home, chat with Vonnie, watch DVD's unti 01:30.

Saturday 1 May, 2004 - Kent/Singapore - Brain provides tea around 07:30, packing, then he drives me to Heathrow (thanks Brian) - check in by 09:45 - got a window seat - 31K (Malaysia Airlines) , but the whole of row 31 - the videos don't work - the other lady (in the aisle seat) moves elsewhere - so I have 3 seats to myself. Window seat was a waste of time... most of Europe obscured by cloud - which disappeared around the Caspian Sea and shortly thereafter - night-time... BUT... after lots of fiddling - I got the videos to work - so played a bit and watched.

Into KL a bit early (dawn just breaking) - tried to get on an earlier flight to Singapore - not possible - sit around for about 4 hours - then into Singapore where Bubsy leaps out of the foliage at Changi airport - nearly dropped my Duty Free!

Brilliant trip - England isn't the way I remember it (grey, miserable and cold) - well not all the time anyway - thanks to everybody who put up with me, directed me and tried to avoid me - sorry I didn't get round to everybody... maybe next time......

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