What a day that was.
Agents contacted us for permission to visit prior to showing people round. Our first real viewer turned up ( a cash buyer looking for a second home in Sussex) and meanwhile the Gorse Fox and Silver Vixen were trying to make the most of a quiet day.
Soon after lunch we hit the highways and bye-ways and made our way across to Haywards Heath where the Silver Vixen was subjected to some tests – all of which showed up entirely normal. Then we joined the Friday afternoon traffic and headed up the M23 onto the M25 and eventually headed west along the M4. Despite it being Friday rush hour, traffic was not too bad and our journey was steady if not quick. We diverted off at Swindon and just outside Gloucester, stopped for dinner at the Air Balloon.
Back on the road we made our way through the last 50 miles to the Herefordshire borders with Wales. A serious gale was blowing as we pulled into the driveway of the house the family had rented to celebrate the Silver Vixen’s mother’s 80th. The rest of the family were all there spread among the 10 bedrooms or so, the two or three lounges, the huge farmhouse kitchen, the dining hall, pool room, or swimming pool. This was one huge rambling house!
After greeting had been exchanged, a small libation had been taken, and first-fit gossip completed we all congregated in the pool room to play. It was clear that the Gorse Fox’s application of pure science and elegant mathematics as examined the angles of incidence and calculated the spin and stun required was no match for the evident misspent youth of so many other members of the gathering.
2 comments:
How was the Air Balloon experience? You were in sight of both the golfyball residence and Cooper's Hill (cheese rolling land).
Air Balloon was very good. They've certainly expanded the menu since the GF last stopped there some 18 months back.
Would certainly recommend it as a great place to stop when en route to distant lands!
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