Who's a slack blogger then! Last Thurday through to today Wednesday.
Trips into Cov then Saturday visited Wellsbourne markets with Sue and Al, this is a large market that happens each week on the airfield. It's not a crafty market but sells most things, fake B headphones to fresh meat. There were two large trucks that were travelling butchers with a spruker selling the meat for really ridiculous prices, if you lived near by you wouldn't buy your meat anywhere else. Didn't buy meat but did get 2 packets of razor blades, 8 blades for £12 about half price........ Then when driving back we came across Compton Varney, a minor stately home, usual thing decorated by Robert Adam, gardens by Capability Brown. It had been used by the army during WWII as a Smoke School to train soldiers to produce smoke for camouflage then when they left it fell into disrepair and became derelict. It was rescued by one of the owners of Littlewoods, the football pools company, he spent a fortune restoring the place and filing it with art and other bits of culture then opened it to the great unwashed. It is a lovely place though and the gardens really are lovely, another one of those gems that you come across almost by accident.
Sunday, Penny and I went up to Sandbach for lunch with Auntie Joyce, cousin Jill and her son Ollie at some old inn that again had been done up after falling into disrepair. Auntie Joyce still looking good....... then to Chester for a night at the Holiday Inn Express near the racecourse.
Monday was ferry day from Holyhead to Dublin. As we were driving across Anglesey the sea looked quite rough which was a bit of a worry, but we needn't have worried as it was only moderate and it was a big ferry.
So we arrived back in Ireland..... again, this time under better circumstances, we paid our €10 toll for the Dublin Port Tunnel and set off for Cloughjordan to visit John. It's good to be back again and it's amazing how well we now our way around, trip to Tesco in Nenagh, no problem, we even know where the custard is.......! Now time to chill.
