14th October 2024
What can I say about today? I was due to be my cleaning day, but due to some family issues I headed down to Hampshire to see what was going on. I won’t elaborate any more, if you’re interested, you will have to buy my memoir when it comes out priced at a reasonable £5000.
It was going to be a full day, one and a half hours drive down, and I needed to be back by 9.00pm to drop the truck at Ryan and Louise’s.
Although my grand children were at school, I joined the school run to collect them.
Ethan is football crazy, so I knew any spare moment he would want me to kick a ball about.
And sure enough that is what happened.
He also had football training that evening for an hour, so I went along to see him do that.
Watching young boys and girls kicking a football about was fascinating, the enjoyment and intensity they had made me smile.
Saying goodbye was hard, I am missing that stage of watching them grow up, I have to give them more time on longer trips.
The trip back was uneventful, I dropped the truck back for probably the last time. I expect that they will sell it, as it is an expensive vehicle to run. It served its purpose during the cottage renovation and it turned over to one hundred thousand miles on the way down.
I walked back through the town and climbed the hills, gasping as I got to the top, the last ascent to the trip.
I finished packing my case, and a bit of a clean up before resting and waiting for Nicola and Colin who once again came to take me to the bus station.
Another Lifetime to go 