Thats 2 hours 12 min from me so I wont visit very often
What have you been doing today?
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4 hrs for me so I might if in the area on my bike. Thats another great trait of mine I am completely selfish and mindfull of others.
Hopefully not for a few decades.
I see what you did there….He's just a bit illegitimate, the poor b@stard
Had a great day. Went with our son, DIL and grandchildren to the Bocking May Day fayre. The grandkids loved it. Fair rides, bouncy castles, acrobats, live music, bowls, hook a duck stalls, Tombola, classic car show, a top fuel dragster to sit in, coconut shy, went to the top of a windmill, Morris dancers and much more. Seemed like the whole village was taking part as it was spread out throughout the main road, in churches, in the sports ground, in the bowls club, in the school. It was all very…….English. Fantastic! 
Over the allotment. Shut my shed, snapped the padlock on, drove up to the gates, looked for my key and realised I had shut them in the shed. Luckily someone else was over there so I drove back to my end of the allotment, borrowed his gate key, drove back, unlocked the gate, drove back to give the key back, drive back to the gate, only to find someone else up the other end of tge allotment had come in and locked the gate behind him. I had to find him and get him to let me out. Drove round the corner to my sisters house, borrowed their gate key ( which also had a spare key to my shed) went back, opened the shed, no keys! I looked high and low all over the place, even re-dug the bed I had dug this morning in case I had dropped it and buried it, no luck. It was getting late now so I quickly went up our High Street to get another gate key cut. Went back to the allotment to try it out and the bloke in the shop had used the wrong blank - the hole in the middle of the key was too small and it wouldn’t go over the pin in the keyhole so it wouldn't even go into the lock. I’ve got to go back tomorrow now and get that sorted. What a fukabout!
I'd give that locksmith an earful.
While getting the key points across.
I went back and it was a different bloke behind the counter. Told him it was wrong, he looked at it and muttered "What the F has he done here" and cut me a new one.
I blanked him at first but when it was all done, I made a bolt for the door….
I blanked him at first but when it was all done, I made a bolt for the door….
Consoling our distraught daughter this morning. George has been run over and killed. Whoever ran him over , took him to a vets at 5.00 this morning and they traced him to our daughter by his chip. TBH, I’m not surprised. Once he found out that there was a field full of mice in the allotments across a busy main road from their house, his days were numbered. Even our daughter said they had been bracing themselves for it. She would often be busy on her allotment and George would walk up, plonk himself down on a chair and just watch her. Penny is a bit of a homebody and doesn’t really leave the back garden. Our daughter and her husband are having him cremated and his ashes will be in an urn over the allotment.
R.I.P. Georgey boy.
At least the driver had the decency to take the cat to a vet
