On the Road Again!

Overnight we had rain at times, lashing down at times, and high winds. We were only up a few times with Reggie wanting to do his ablutions. But by getting up time I was still tired. I had a lie in. I had the cab booked for 2pm and with it raining on and off, I wore my raincoat. Good job.... The cab arrived on time ..We'll come back to cabs later. It took about  ten minutes to drop me off by the visiting fans entrance at the back of Lidl.  I got lunch in there before going into the ground. A small pizza about the size of my hand and a millionaire shortbread for those that are interested. The wind and rain carried on intermittently all game. The sun also made an appearance. The game was generally scrappy. Neither side could cope with the swirling wind but Shrewsbury scored the only goal with a looping header in the first half.   I had booked the return cab for 5.15pm. There were quite a few people waiting. Gradually the numbers dropped until just me and two lads. I cal...

Almost a last minute decision to come up to Shrewsbury this weekend. We had enjoyed last weekend's visit to Colchester and Suffolk.  I get to go the football and Claire has a relaxing day without me. I checked that Phil could take over the Arsenal ticket and then bought my ticket for the Oldham game at Shrewsbury. Next, I checked that the Caravan Club CL at Betley Park had room. It costs £25 a night including 10kw of electric. Booked. We set off around 10.30am. The TomTom route was via the south of London on the M25 to the M40, then M42 and M54.... We made good progress. Then with TomTom connected the traffic info showed a problem around the services at Clacket Lane, and again around the A3 junction. Time dragged on. We shouldn't have been bothered by the M25 being closed eastbound where it turns north by the junction with the A21 and M26. Except it seems we were. No logical reason for both hold...

The ticket arrived yesterday and so that worry is off the table. Amazed that the post office managed to get the envelope, posted first class, on Tuesday. As with Colchester last week, the site we are on is the nearest to the football ground but is too far to walk. I have been looking at buses but they aren't that easy to see where they go from and how close they get to the ground.   Roll on Saturday.

"Was a sunny day, not a cloud was in the sky" It's the first day this year we have had some almost summer weather. It's April 8th and the temperature was nudging 20°C. I checked the Bluetti and it was showing 86% full. So out with the folding Allpowers Solar Panel and plugged that in. The panel is rated at 100w and so to get 80w peak input seemed pretty decent. It was moving between 70w and 80w for the hour and a quarter it took to get the battery up to 100%. It's the first time the panel has been out since last summer.

I had an email from Warners Show about camping shows we hadn't booked for. We are already planning and booked to go to Norfolk again. Then I saw on the Motor Caravanners Club (MCC) that they have a club area at the Newbury Show . There's a small discount for staying in a club area. We decided to book a club pitch. By then we should be able to exist off grid for a much longer time than we have at rallies at the moment. I printed the ticket and it is also on my phone in the Eventbrite app.  I still don't trust the phone when we are out and about.

Another trip is planned for next week. So soon. By then Mr Trump's war might have pushed the price of fuel even higher.... This time to Shrewsbury. Another Oldham Athletic away game and the last chance this season to see my old team. I last went to their old ground that I was sure was in the town centre. This would have been about 60 years ago!  I had a look on a few of the camping and park up sites and found Betley Park CL just to the south of the town centre.   It was a bit of a faff to book on their website after I thought I had booked on the "CL Booking" app. But once done the emails and confirmations arrived pretty quick. The football ground is down that way too inside the A5 loop to the south of the town. Hopefully within easy travel time. On Google Maps it doesn't look like it's all that far. The CL website says that there is a bus stop outside. When we check in maybe they'll be able to...