The sad news is that Jennifer's father Cyril passed away early September after a long illness and therefore the last few weeks have all been about sorting out the estate.
However ,in the meantime , the redevelopment work started on the house in early August and will continue through to December, we hope to finish by Christmas but lets see. In the meantime Michael with his fiancee have moved house from the one bedroom flat in Aldershot to a three bedroom house in Rosneath, Scotland. About one hour North West of Glasgow. They have delightful views from their house over Gairloch, see picture.
With a view like this he will be able to see the rain quite clearly. Michael has joined the Scottish Ambulance Service whilst Celina is hoping to get a job in a beauty salon nearby in Helensburgh.The van Michael ordered for his effects to Scotland was not big enough so a few days later we rented another van and drove to Scotland in the worst weather of the year. It took 12 hours to get there and 8 to get back. We stayed in a very nice Hotel on Loch Lomond. We did not tell Michael or Celina that we were coming and it was a great surprise when we phoned from outside their house to say we were there.
On Sunday 6Th of October we brought the caravan from its storage location in Walton-on-Thames back to Weybridge and spent many hours give it a good external clean and then took it back to storage and put a cover over it. It has been most unfortunate that we could not use the caravan this year apart from a few days because of illness of Jen's dad. Anyway it will be ready for next year when we hope to take off in late April or early May once we have returned from our trip to New Zealand and Australia which we have put back from last year.
The brick layers turned up this morning, a couple of weeks late!! so lets hope we can get back on track quickly, unfortunately the weather today is rain the whole day but the forecast for the rest of the week is better.
I will try to kjeep this Blog up to date in future now we hope that our life is getting back in shape again. Just to keep me more busy I have bought a large Casio Electronic Keyboard, I used to play the piano when younger and I hope to regain the knowledge which may mean I need some lessons, lets see.
