Time travel on the way to Meadle

 Friday 21/10/22

We've relocated to Meadle for a few days, helping out some owners who weren't able to get sitters for their travels.  We sat here before in June but this time have Archie, Beau's brother, joining us with Bella and Beau.  It is just until Sunday when we will move on to another repeat sit in Farnham Royal.

Back in Buckinghamshire with Beau, Bella and Archie

We left Thorncombe before the sun came up as we knew we had to get off the single track roads before people started moving about too much.  It was a wise decision as we had to drive more than half an hour along extremely narrow roads and would have had real problems if there had been more traffic.

Some years ago we had seen an antiques show on TV which was filmed in Milestones museum, a reproduction of historic buildings in Basingstoke, and as it was along our way, we decided to visit.

The museum was fascinating and very atmospheric, with amazing displays of items and houses through the Britain in the pre-and post-war period; a lovely way to pass a few hours.  

Later that afternoon we headed on to the house sit, unfortunately hitting High Wycombe during rush-hour.  That definitely brought back some memories of sitting in traffic twice every work day, and was a stark reminder of our working life.  

Hard at work.

Back in the day when things were repaired if they broke.

Bokkie's great, great grandfather!

Bokkie's grandmother 😉

Inside the Romani camper.

It was lovely to see all the vintage vehicles in such good condition

The advantage of doing repeat sits is that we know the animals and the house so  are able to settle into a routine quicker.  We're certainly enjoying the Aga stove much more in the colder weather than we did in the heat of June. 

Charmaine was kind enough to come and look after the hounds yesterday so that we could hightail it into London for our visa appointments.  It wasn't a fun experience but we're hoping, if successful, it will make future European travel a lot easier.  Frustrating that it will have cost us £2,500 in total, just to get us the freedom for a year that we already used to enjoy before Brexit!!!