A quiet weekend

First thing Friday morning we took the car in to get it looked at.  The place that we went to was very good and showed me how the exhaust pipe was completely rusted through and no longer attached to the muffler.  More money that we’d sooner spend on other things, but the car has been a great asset too, and allowed us to do our own thing.  After that Grant went with Mark and family out to help set up the weekend Brownie camp.  We got out there about midday and put up about six different tents.  While we dodged the very brief shower that came through, the wind was of Wellington proportions.  It made it very tricky to put up the tents, but we got there in the end.  Mark had to come back as he had to take a training session at the gym so Grant came back before all the Brownies started showing up.

Siobhan had not been idle during this time either and had called and visited a number of letting places looking for somewhere for us to live in the event that we become employed.  When Grant returned, we both headed off to look at a place that is not too far from one of the main train lines out of Waterloo.  It was a newly built or renovated 3-storey house.  Each of the first two floors has 2 two-bedroom flats and there are 2 one-bedroom flats on the top floor.  It was so nicely appointed and the workmanship looked superb.  It was very exciting, but that was quickly tempered by finding out how much we need to pay up-front for the bond, fees, the first month’s rent in advance etc.  Still, quite keen for the jobs to come to fruition and to have a place of our own.  It would be nice to properly unpack the suitcases and put them away.

The weekend then passed uneventfully.  We called a number of the pubs around the Addlestone area on Friday night to see if they would be playing the All Blacks game on Saturday morning (our time).  The pubs either didn’t have Sky or weren’t opening at 8.30am.  Nick came to the rescue though and we were able to use his Sky-Go to watch it on the laptop.  It was very stressful with the ABs only just scraping home.  We went for a couple of walks and got the ingredients for a roast dinner for Sunday night for when Mark & family got back from camp.  We had a nice roast beef and Yorkshire pudding followed by fruit salad & ice cream.  The campers seemed pretty appreciative and very weary.

On Monday we got packed up (again) and headed back to Bristol.  Ingrid's roses along the front of their house are in full bloom and look gorgeous.