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  • If one had the energy (which one did not) one would have posted the following last night. THANK GOD for McDonald’s. We are forever blessed. There is nothing like the sight of the twin Golden Arches gleaming at you on the side of an A road to bring relief to the tired and the hungry.…

  • Tea. Or rather mugs. They are an issue. Particularly across the Channel. This morning – as promised – I shall turn my attention to the size of the European cup. It just won’t do. Teeny, weeny, two sips and it’s gone territory. So I have taken to making myself two cups in the hope that…

  • So clearly I struggle to learn from lessons past… Repeat after me: Though shalt not congratulate thyself on not falling off thy bicycle, until thy bicycle has been safely returned and thy deposit retrieved. To do otherwise is to ask for trouble. Try as I might I cannot blame either my Best Beloved or His…

  • Namely windmills and Edam. Apparently we could also have visited a clog makers but we didn’t. So after visiting an extremely picture-sque (my mother always pronounced it thus) set of windmills north of Amsterdam, took a tiny ferry across a zee and saved our pennies with sandwiches we decamped for Edam where they make the…

  • What DID I do in my past life? I ask you with a heartfelt shriek of horror. His Nibs has discovered Disney Weddings on Disney+. Every other bride is getting married in front of that b+*^#$ castle. Come back reimagined Snow White. A LOT needed to be forgiven but I will cut you some slack…

  • We finally arrived in the not so wild or far flung reaches of Holland and unpacked in the drizzle. Unfortunately we had not stopped off at a supermarket but rather gathered provisions from petrol stations en route. Fortunately His Nibs had decided to remove a container of frozen chilli from the icebox and leave it…

  • Sitting in a queue at Dover, waiting for a ferry that is running late (hopefully late enough to request compensation…) I am using the down time to start my blog. This has been in the offing for months, ever since I was forced to take a serious look at my physical and mental wellbeing. However…

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