Tuesday 7th August – We survived.

We woke up to lovely sunshine and a visit to Whittlebury Spa for the day to celebrate my sister’s birthday to look forward to.

First breakfast and a cup of tea and putting the bed down and then we were off for a lovely day relaxing and chatting at the spa. We both had a neck, shoulder and back massage and enjoyed the pool and heat and cold spa area and then my sister had a facial while I read in the sunshine – bliss.

Time for me to say good bye to my sister and I set off for the campsite to be met by…..an ant invasion in my bin. Apparently this is very common and nothing to worry about – who knew! Moved the bin away from the van to be dealt with later.

I quickly washed up everything from last night as one of my brothers in law (BIL) was coming to visits and this happened.

Beware flip flops and the lip on your caravan door. Instead of landing on the washing up bowl, I threw it forward and ended up breaking a mug. Quite a good average for me though – one mug in a whole 24 hours of being in the van!

BIL arrived with sausage and chips, I gave him the grand tour (took about 60 seconds) and ate our dinner with non-alcoholic cider. After he left….I was on my own….

I used my carpet sweeper for the first time – brilliant suggestion! I wouldn’t have coped with an untidy caravan for a month and sweeping it up all the time with a dustpan and brush. This was ideal!

I made up my bed – this time all for me – and after worrying I wouldn’t sleep as I was so anxious about the next day, I fell straight to sleep.