Stage 1 – Home & Navenby

You sometimes wonder if the effort is worth it! We seemed to spend forever just loading the van then on Monday there seemed still to be so much more to do – and we still missed a couple of things, not important but frustrating.

Nevertheless we did finally get away around 12.30 after topping up the gas bottles onto a surprisingly quiet A1; we thought it woukd have been much busier. So a good run with a short lunch stop at Wetherby and got to Mum's at Navenby about 4.30.

As she is not so well we had no intention of seeing the year in – but despite giving him a so-called sedative tablet Jamie went nuts when all the fireworks let off at midnight and it was probably 1.00 before he settled; ah well no matter, we weren't getting up early!

So Happy New Year everybody!

A quiet day, opening prezzies, doing a bit of DIY for Mum then just relaxing. Nothing worth watching on the TV so another earlyish night, this time undisturbed. We are in no rush to get away in the morning as our Channel Tunnel booking isn't until 18.20.