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Oct29
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Great weekend, went to visit the folks and we got down in plenty of time to go to Portsmouth Dockyard and see the Mary Rose and the Victory. The Mary Rose was more interesting than I thought, it's not just a big lump of driftwood, but the Victory was less impressive than I remember. One change that I remember from childhood visits, the "Nelson fell here" plaque has been countersunk (at some point in the last twenty or thirty years) so no longer can people joke "I'm not surprised I nearly tripped over it myself". We have tickets for other aspects of the dockyard, including a boat trip around the harbour that I hope we'll get to use on another visit.
Great night out with my Mum and Dad, some FINE pints of Ringwood brewery's "Huffkin" in the Lloyds bar in Port Solent and a curry too.
Sunday got some paperwork from Dad, including the wills of my great great grandfather and my great great great grandfather, which I'm sure will be interesting when I can deciper the copperplate writing. We have some mroe family tree info from someone who it turns out is distantly related, which takes us back more generations than we knew before.
The journey home came around all too quickly, and it was dark, and it was raining, and there was no visibility, and it took us four hours to drive home.
Got an interesting email from someone who'd found this I lost my girlfriend to a rock star post on Folkestone Gerald saying "I was that girlfriend". Neither poster is me, or known to me, but maybe these people will get back in touch and form a beautiful new relationship. Or, more likely, each are married now to other people and two relationships will be crashed against the rocks of internet flirtations. I will keep you informed.
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Oct3
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Took a road trip to Fareham to visit the family this weekend, borrowing Clare's dad's car. No problems getting there, though it's not a drive I've done myself before, up the M20, round the M25 and then down the A3. The A3 near the Devil's Punchbowl was a bit of a pain, going down into one lane, but we got there...
GREAT to see everyone, nice that mum and dad had visitors while we were there so got to see a few more of the family. Went to my sister and brother in law's place, and since our last visit they've converted their garage into a games room, with dartboard and pool table and bar and things... very nice too, all done properly. They've understandably much improved at these pub sports, but on balance were not quite a match for Clare and myself. On holiday we were getting worried that Americans were getting good at darts and thought they might start troubling the world championships, but now we're worried about Dez!
Went for a good curry at the Indian Palace, Port Solent, it's great there which means it's always busy. Bit of a wait, but we got a drink in the Lloyds Number One (one of the fancier Wetherspoons) also in Port Solent. Didn't stay drinking as long as we might, but a top evening anyway. When we got back to Mum and Dad's we looked at old photos and hilarious home videos. Not the TV show, actual videos of family parties and things.
Sunday, caught up with a few friends, two of whom have just had a baby, and two of whom are about to have one in a few weeks. Super flying visits though, as we were slightly held up by someone reversing into us in a car park in town. Then a great roast dinner with the family, it really was such a nice weekend.
On the way BACK to Folkestone, the same section of road that delayed us the day before was a nightmare, we were queued up for nearly an hour. Then when we hit the M25 there had been an accident, so we were at a standstill there for ages too. Got home too late, not a fun journey.
Nearly missed our train this morning, forgot the timetable changed this weekend and the train goes two minutes earlier from Folkestone... wonder if it caught many people out? I need to check what's happened to my train home too... Journey home is NOT GOOD! Looks like Clare's train from Charing Cross no longer waits for my train from Cannon Street at Ashford, so it'll take me more like three hours to get home! I'd have to sprint from here to get the Charing Cross train...
Got to figure that out somehow or I'm never going to get home! UPDATE from Clare: "if you look at Cannon street 17.44 to Ashford it says it takes 1hr and 8 mins and arrives 18.52 and if you look at the trains between Ashford and Folkestone it says that ours doesn't leave until 18.55 so in theory you should be fine - I dunno why they are suggesting you change at Headcorn on your one"
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