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Look Back At 2024

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2024 started well with lots of plans for the coming year, a mix of trips at home and in France, our first home trip was a pub stop at The Red Lion in Cradley, Herefordshire, a country pub but with a Turkish menu, we had a thoroughly good night followed by a lovely day in Malvern. January slipped into February and a trip to Charmouth in Dorset staying at a Camping and Caravanning Club site at Monkton Wyld, we had a lovely week but as the week went on Izzy was not her self, sleeping a lot and not really eating, returning home at the end of the week we thought she would improve at home, she didn't, by the end of that week we took her to the vets, she had some antibiotics and an injection to improve her appetite, which initially worked but after a few days this wore off so back to the vets, after having a ultrasound scan they found growths on her spline. On the 29th February she had stopped eating and drinking and on the advise of our vet we had to make th...
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Normandy D-Day 80 Tour - Our October Trip

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France October ’24 Friday 25th October Day 1 Up early, 6.15am, Adele had a shift at work and would be back by 9.30 so we would be off by 10am. Well that was the plan, I packed the last of the things in the van then headed off to get fuel and check the tyre pressures, there are only two fuel stations around us whose air pumps will go up to the 5.5 bar needed so off to the other side of town to Sainsbury’s, there was a chap doing his before me so I waited, he kept going back and forth then after about 5 minutes left, my turn, set the machine to 5 bar but it was determined to take more air out of the tyres than it was putting in, I can now see why the previous guy was messing about now. The next station, Tescos was more successful but they didn’t have the premium diesel that I wanted so on to the Shell garage by home. This messing around took nearly an hour so Adele was waiting for me when I got back. We eventually left 10.20, but left us plenty of time for our 4:18 train. The jo...
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