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Before I go.
5 Oct 2006 02:12 pmI have had a few off days off work to help Daughter-dear get ready to go on the great university adventure. This also encompassed S2C's birthday, so we went out for a meal to our favourite chinese restaurant last night to cover both the birthday and the leaving home.
S2C is looking much better, but is not coming with me to take D-d to York, because he has an appointment to see the gastro-enterologist on Tuesday, which is the day I am travelling back, and the boat was already booked for then on an unchangeable booking. He is glad, I think, to stay with Shaka as he doesn't like travelling at the best of times - and tomorrow is not going to be the best of times. Those in the UK will know what I mean if they've seen a weather forcast - it is going to be windy, windy, windy tomorrow - I already have a queezy tummy just thinking about the four hours or so on the boat. That is the hard bit though - the drive from there is about 90 miles and should take a couple of hours or so - once I find my way out of Heysham - which I do by following the car that got off the boat in front of me - one day it will be someone going to visit a friend in Lancaster and I'll end up in someone's drive!!
We have packed, and packed and packed. There are boxes, and boxes and boxes. She is in a mainly self-catering college, so we not only have bedding, books, CDs, more clothes than I thought she owned, computer, printer, TV and so on, but also pots, pans, crockery, cutlery etc. as well. We have now got to cram them all in the Octavia, in the pouring rain and howling wind which has arrived already.
The Octavia has a big boot - and an even bigger one if I drop the back seat - in fact part of the back seats can be removed and it can be flat-bedded totally - but we have to leave the car parked overnight in the hotel car park as we can't get into college until Saturday morning - so I would prefer it all to be in the actual boot under the parcel shelf. So I think suitcases, laptops etc, may go on the back seat, and can go into the hotel with us. It's still going to be a tight fit!
I am taking my laptop, but don't know if the hotel has easy internet access, or even if I could work out how to get this to not look for the in-house network, as S2C has 'unlocked'D-d's to let it access the uni ether-net. So when I am in a hotel room on my own, with the daughter in her hall room, I can write some more of Ten Years After2 - which has a working title of 'Access All Areas', and is currently 2500 words long - I'll let you know when I get back whether I actually did any!
The house is cold, and we have no hot water, because the heating unit isn't working - the engineer is due this afternoon - otherwise we will have to travel with rather grotty hair! We do have an electric fire in the living room, and spare duvets....
See you all sometime late on Tuesday 10th - (when I get home I have a quick turn around to go to a Church Elders meeting.)
S2C is looking much better, but is not coming with me to take D-d to York, because he has an appointment to see the gastro-enterologist on Tuesday, which is the day I am travelling back, and the boat was already booked for then on an unchangeable booking. He is glad, I think, to stay with Shaka as he doesn't like travelling at the best of times - and tomorrow is not going to be the best of times. Those in the UK will know what I mean if they've seen a weather forcast - it is going to be windy, windy, windy tomorrow - I already have a queezy tummy just thinking about the four hours or so on the boat. That is the hard bit though - the drive from there is about 90 miles and should take a couple of hours or so - once I find my way out of Heysham - which I do by following the car that got off the boat in front of me - one day it will be someone going to visit a friend in Lancaster and I'll end up in someone's drive!!
We have packed, and packed and packed. There are boxes, and boxes and boxes. She is in a mainly self-catering college, so we not only have bedding, books, CDs, more clothes than I thought she owned, computer, printer, TV and so on, but also pots, pans, crockery, cutlery etc. as well. We have now got to cram them all in the Octavia, in the pouring rain and howling wind which has arrived already.
The Octavia has a big boot - and an even bigger one if I drop the back seat - in fact part of the back seats can be removed and it can be flat-bedded totally - but we have to leave the car parked overnight in the hotel car park as we can't get into college until Saturday morning - so I would prefer it all to be in the actual boot under the parcel shelf. So I think suitcases, laptops etc, may go on the back seat, and can go into the hotel with us. It's still going to be a tight fit!
I am taking my laptop, but don't know if the hotel has easy internet access, or even if I could work out how to get this to not look for the in-house network, as S2C has 'unlocked'D-d's to let it access the uni ether-net. So when I am in a hotel room on my own, with the daughter in her hall room, I can write some more of Ten Years After2 - which has a working title of 'Access All Areas', and is currently 2500 words long - I'll let you know when I get back whether I actually did any!
The house is cold, and we have no hot water, because the heating unit isn't working - the engineer is due this afternoon - otherwise we will have to travel with rather grotty hair! We do have an electric fire in the living room, and spare duvets....
See you all sometime late on Tuesday 10th - (when I get home I have a quick turn around to go to a Church Elders meeting.)
