Time flies!
Music systems
Rosy's re-vamped music system is still not 100% yet, but we're getting that way. We can play our CDs and listen to the radio. The radio sounds very good, as the signal, picked up by Rosy's car radio, is amplified, and emerges through a pair of Wharfdale speakers. The reproduction is far better than what emerges from our Roberts portable radios. What we cannot yet do is to play tape cassettes - but we are working on it.
Kettles
I am blessed with some very good friends. I have mentioned David Long before. I met him a few nights ago. He had been over to France to check out 'Falcon' - currently based in Brittany - and to prepare her for winter. During his drive back home he very kindly went out of his way to meet up with us, leaving behind some sweet chestnuts, a box of Merlot and a kettle. A kettle? Yes indeed. An elderly, very nice and clean, copper kettle. Mine had been deteriorating, and I had started to use a ghastly modern one - thank goodness that can now be re-cycled.
I say 'recycled' as us wartime babies had it drilled into our DNA that you don't throw things away - which is why 'Rosy' is so cluttered.
Pullovers
I've been contemplating buying a new pullover. I still have my Army 'woolly pulley', (though its showing its age), and 2 Guernsey's. One is superb - but ageing. It predates central heating. The other is newer. I bought is at a time when I had a down turn in my income, and it has not lasted very well. So I hit the internet.
If you like warm and cuddly things, check-out Norwegian Sweaters and Icelandic Sweaters on the internet. The downside of the Norwegian ones is that most of them are predominately white, so keeping them clean in UK weather systems could be a bit iffy. (Many of the 'white' sweater designs are replicated in black, but they don't please the eye like the white ones do.
This Blog
I am very pleased pleased and heartened that so many people who followed the old web-log have found there way over to this blog. Welcome! (And, hopefully, 'Enjoy')
Make sure you get a 3G Kindle. It will be invaluable on the continent as you will be able to access and create emails and perform basic web- browsing entirely free - yes free - of charge. We've been doing this for the last 6 years in our campervan in many countries.
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