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Date: 28 February 2009 10:17:46
The washing is now all done, I am only coughing intermittantly and pukey boy is much improved, Chris has solved my dashboard problem (or rather, come up with a way to fix it so it isn't so much of a problem) and now I am free to blog our trip away.
It was a mega trip. First we spent the day with my sister and visited eldest son for his review and for a proper family visit. That went well. Then we drove from there to my other sister's. This is where the fun started. About five miles after setting out we hit the bad traffic. My brother-in-law commented, when I told him that, that he'd expected me to say we'd hit the bad traffic in Birmingham, but I went on to explain that we hit the bad traffic as we set out and it continued all the way to the other side of Birmingham. As if that weren't enough, we escaped from the motorway after Birmingham for our hour's journey through the backroads of the Midlands, only to be engulfed by thick thick fog. Boy, was that an interesting drive! Luckily the Smudgelet fell asleep and I was able simply to drive slowly and carefully and ignore the fact that our three hour journey took us more than five!
Three blissful days followed, staying with my sister and her husband, and with my nephew and his wife joining us for a day and a half of those. Most of the time we just sat and nattered, of course, though my beloved sister did drag me to a new experience - a Pilates class. I am now fully zipped! And C and L and the Smudgelet and I booked a court for an hour and had an energetic game of .. well, I guess you could call it "badminton", though played by Mornington Crescent style rules. I don't know which muscles got the most severe workout - the running around waving a raquet muscles, the bending down picking up a shuttlecock muscles, or the rolling on the floor in fits of uncontrollable laughter muscles.
A separate post for the main event of the stay, though, methinks.