A Kentish plan or a plan of Kent?

We went on a holiday to Kent.The weather was good, in places.

The views had to be seen to be believed.

The trains were small and steamed a lot.

One of the trains was blue.At the end of the week, we came home

Nearly back to normal...................

For a given value of normal.

I have installed the new Sky dish and it is working well, I wish I could say as much for the magic eye remote system.
We have been very busy, one way or another, over the weekend. Samuel and Keane came to stay on Friday night and we have had a lot of football on the field and playing in the park as well. It's all very tiring for an old codger like me. I have also finally sorted the photos and have them re-sized and web ready now. the whole wedding set are on Picasa  and a small number of holiday pictures are also ready for this blog.
My keyboard has just died on me so I am typing with a Sun keyboard at present, very good quality but American layout.

Getting on getting on.

Spent a couple of hours fixing the brackets and mast on the terrace last evening. Got the holes in fairly quickly but had problems with the last two bolts. I need a socket set to do it easily and I couldn't find one in the dark yesterday. I am down at 238 this evening so it may not get done until tomorrow.

Then I fit the dish and octo LNB and orft we jolly well, as Jim used to say.

Back to the grind...........

Well, home again and whilst sorry to have ended our holiday, we have at least returned to very good news. Our planning application has been passed very quickly and I can, at long last, get on with finishing the terrace in time for Christmas. That means installing all the sat gear and generally cleaning the whole area up.
Sal had two wisdom teeth out yesterday, very subdued and sorry for herself when I arrived home. She did perk up a lot when the sedatives wore off but she will be on some fairly heavy pain killers for a couple of days.
Hazel and I went down to have a chat with the tenants in 238 last evening, wow, what a smell from their animals. It's no wonder they have mice problems........... 

Happy, happy, joy, joy.

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We picked up janis yesterday and, wow, she is looking good. The furniture is all completed and installed and the sink / hob has been fitted. Sadly, Paul didn't have time to do the plumbing or fit the gas kit but that is something I can do myself so no problems. Hazel and I are pretty tired after three hours out last night but we have to keep going for the next three days and then we can relax for our holiday.

Singing in the rain

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Last evening, it was the stage show.

Sal took me to see it at the Theatre Royal, excellent!

Also very cheap with her staff discount, excellent!

Home again, home again, jigetty jig.

Old English nursery rhyme.

We went on a holiday to Kent. I like Kent, it's where my dear wife was born and is called "The garden of England". The bit we went to was not, it was more "The armpit of England". I am biased, of course, the holiday was bad for many more reasons than just the venue. The place we went to was, and still is, between New Romney and Dungeness. It's an old Butlins camp now turned over to caravans and a few chalets. The caravan was old and showed it's age with several non matching door handles on the cupboards. The TV set worked fine until anyone moved near it or the aerial except when on BBC1 when it didn't work at all.

The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway runs through the site so we tried that. It's very well run and a very professional set up but it's also like travelling in a topless tunnel for most of the journey. It's difficult to be dismissive about that feature due to the nature of the railway itself. The company is, after all, a private one and runs for profit not tourists (in general anyway). The problem is mainly due to the fact that the railway was there first and the houses and gardens that flank the track obviously don't want to have hordes of nosy passengers looking into their property each time a noisy and smoke producing train goes past.

On the way up, we dropped janis off to VWPaul for her furniture to be installed. Paul was not well and we left her with him with the hope that he would recover soon. We are due to collect her on Thursday evening.