What a Weekend...

This is my second attempt at writing this post, the first one was deleted accidently when techno-pixies crosswired my brain making me think ctrl-v was copy, I was not best pleased.

Our missions for the weekend were:

Drop jacqui's bassoon off at the place that sells bassoons
Visit our friends Emma and Richard in Taunton
Travel up to Coventry to drop the car off with its new owner, Jacqui's sister Liz.
Train to the big smoke to stay with my sister Elaine.
Visit Jacqui's sister Carolyn.
All go to a restaurant for Elaine's 30th birthday celebration.
Parents give us a lift home.

Busy busy busy, as you can see

All went well to start with, dropped the bassoon off, hit loads of traffic on the way to Taunton but we only arrived an hour late. Had a very nice evening with Richard and Emma, topics of discussion included puffins, Canada, remote Scottish islands and Puffins We awoke to a lovely day on the Saturday and left about 11 to travel to Coventry, nice trip up the M5, and we were there. In the afternoon we handed over the car, chatted and prepared for dinner, then the phonecall happened.

Mum called to tell me that my Dad's dad had died. He died suddenly, in his sleep, some time on Saturday, we hope and believe it was peaceful. After we had dinner Liz dropped us to get the train. Our journey was basically Coventry-Train-Euston Road-Bus-Elaine's; nice and easy. A sombre evening followed, although it was really good to see Paul and Elaine. The next morning we made a flying visit to see Carolyn and her new flat - very nice indeed (Carolyn and the flat). Then Me, Jacqui, Elaine and Paul made our way to Shenfield, Elaine's-Bus-Liverpool Street-Train-Shenfield-Walk-Grandad's.

Then we had a day chatting and just being together as a family. Jacqui and I decided that, if at all possible we will delay our flights until after the funeral, this could be 2 weeks away. Just need to check with ISL that they're ok with that.

Left at 6 to make the legendary journey from Shenfield to Norwich, roughly 80 miles.

Shenfield-Train-Ingatestone-Bus-Colchester-Bus-Ipswich-Train-Norwich-Taxi-Home and we got home at 11pm. The main problem was waiting for 2 hours at Ipswich while emergency emergency engineering works happened, these were on top of the ordinary emergency engineering works.

So now we're at home seeing how much we can fit into our suitcases and waiting to talk to Graham at ISL this afteroon when Canadia finally wakes up.

Another post soon when we should know what we're going to do next.