Have you ever gone somewhere and shortly after arriving thought "mmm... shall we go back home and start all over again?". Seriously, you just have to laugh at the events of this weekend. It all started with me getting a new phone, my old one had "THE LIST" - the list that kept us feeling safe and secure that we would be on our travels with everything we felt we needed. However, when I got a new phone "THE LIST" didn't transfer over and because of this we forgot milk, shampoo, toilet rolls, shaving stuff and dinner for Saturday night! All of this was either replaced, modified (washing my hair in Dove Body Wash) or just done without. But of course, our tale of "oh dear me's" doesn't end there - we should have suspected it was going to be 'one of those weekends' or as we like to put it "an adventure" when the fridge wasn't cold despite being plugged into the mains for 3 days and the SatNav took us down this lane and we ended up causing mayhem with on-coming cars having to reverse - we were NOT popular. Then on arrival at the campsite we found no TV hook-up, no wifi and very little choice of pitch left -the first option happened to be next to the main road with cars whizzing past - er no... so we found another pitch and staked claim just as two other families were about to do so. As it happened, it was a nice pitch and the couple in the caravan next door (there was just the two pitches) were from Crawley and worked at the Hospital! It was all hard-standing so no point in putting up the awning, so we just pulled out the awning, it's surprising the need to claim your territory!
Saturday morning was a bit cloudy but it was warm and we walked into Catsfield (1.5 miles) - nice walk through the Normanhurst Estate.
Catsfield has a pub, a grocers and a sausage shop. Del needed sedation to recover from going into a pub on a Saturday lunch time and drinking coffee........
However, normal service was soon resumed....
Just look at his face!!!!!
Whilst Del watched some DVD's I was more than happy with some alfresco crafting. but of course, with the way our luck was going, when it came to watch a movie with our dinner the damn DVD packed up! AND AND AND what's more my lappy - Windows 8 - doesn't play DVDs!!!!!!!!
Despite all the minor mishaps it was a lovely relaxing weekend - I'm so proud with myself for walking 3 miles and I didn't ache afterwards. The campsite
http://www.caravanclub.co.uk/caravanclubapps/applications/uk-caravan-sites-and-parks/SiteDetails.aspx?csid=21948 was very pretty and immaculately kept - couldn't fault it in anyway except the TV and wifi situation - personally we can survive without one or the other but not both! The new 'THE LIST' is under construction and will include things such as remembering to lock the door and put in the handle before setting off Del.... boy that cyclist was lucky to have his head left on.....
