What are you all up to

What a memorable experience moulesy. As Tinwheeler says it must never, ever be forgotten. I am sure it will live in your memory forever. Thank you for the photos.

Reasonable weather here today. Sunny but the fresh breeze was very chilly. I did quite a bit of gardening and also more washing which dried nicely on the line. Met the daughter of one of our new neighbours. She said the house was in quite a state when they moved in. The the previous guy was on his own there for the last 2 years or so as the marriage broke down. The new neighbours have quite a lot of work to do apparently

Sad news about your neighbours Helen.

I can only iterate what molluscs said about your neighbour, Helen.

Thanks for the photos, Moulesy. We were talking to our daughter this evening,  who has been there too, and she said It was a harrowing experience. She has visited Poland often, for work, and she said to look out for a Manekin cafe as they do the most delicious Polish pancakes.

We moved up to a new to us CL at Maybole today. Great big H/S pitches with open views across the neighbouring fields, with 3 other units on tonight and full from tomorrow. The weather has been good, with plenty of sunshine, but it is still not very warm. 

Just booked our next Covid jabs at the Open University again. I think we have been there more times than most of the students!!!

David

Had a great day out yesterday.

Met up with our west coast friends at Falkirk. Sun was shining and no wind for a change.

We started off by collecting them, they were there having a job done on their MH.

Off we went to the Kelpies, we have all been before but it's always nice to see them again and have a walk while catching up on things.

Then it was time to collect the MH and go to the Falkirk Wheel. Had a nice walk around there and another cuppa and scone. Lots more catching up done.

Great to see them and a good day out for all of us. 

Today wasn't as nice, bit of wind and rain, hoping the weekend will be better as we start driving south.

I never got to visit Auschwitz but I well remember the times I visited Bergen Belsen.  My father took me in 1955 when I was 8 years old.  In those days there was no car park and you couldn’t see anything from the road.  All of the barrack blocks had been demolished and the only thing standing were 1 chimney and the remains of an ‘oven’.  There were mounds of the murdered which included 14000 Russian POW’s.  We were the only people there and I remember feeling a sense of foreboding.  I’ve visited several times since and it has grown into a massive memorial with a large museum 

On Saturday a lady pulled out of a side road into my car and kocked my car into a parked car.  Luckily no-one appeared to be injured and the lady admitted liability.  After a flurry of calls, texts and e-mails from and with her insurance company, repairs to my car have been authorised.  Yesterday however, I received a call from someone implying that he was from the insurance company asking for information, before realising that the person was in fact a low life tout, trying to drum up personal injury business to sell on to solicitors.  I don't know who told him that I had had a car accident or who gave him my name and phone number, although the address he had for me had the same wrong postcode as the one which came from the insurance company. I wondered if anyone has had a similar call, after having a vehicle accident?

Even though the accident was in no way my fault, is it likely to affect my car insurance and also my M/H insurance, which are with different companies?

Oneputt

We visited Bergen Belsen on one of our tours around Germany.  Not sure how we ended up there. We were staying near Celle if I recall and were out for a drive and saw the signs to Bergen and it must have rang a bell. Perhaps understandably they don't have big signs or directions to this type of place. We had previously been in Holland and at some point we had visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and we knew that she had died in Bergen Belsen which might have been a prompt for us. Having walked round the grounds I didn't feel I wanted to visit the Museum, the whole place was very eerie. From a British point of view, as you will know,  the camp was actually liberated by British soldiers and I an sure that must have lived with what they saw to the end of their lives.

David

When I was young my Dad always watched black and white TV documentaries on the war, the horrors on these programmes have stayed with me and haunted me all my life, like many other people of my age. I don’t think that I could ever be brave enough to visit these terrible places. But I agree they should be kept, youngsters should always know what happened and the inhumanity of man. Sadly with what is going on in the world today and at the moment kindness and caring for others still seems to be in short supply, will some never learn.

Blue skies and a big red round thing in the sky that we haven’t seen much of here in months.

Having visited some memorials I'll keep my thoughts to myself lest it ends up being in contravention of T&Cs.

MiL finally wore me down so took her clothes shopping at the Cheshire Oaks outlet village, specifically M&S (easily walkable from the Chester club site). OH made use of the wheelchair, pushing her around. She does actually push it herself for exercise. Used it again this morning to take her for her covid booster. She had a friend die of Covid a couple of years ago so doesn't need any encouragement to have her jabs. Nursing staff did go through her recent health issues first but satisfied themselves it was safe to have one.

We had some sun for most of the day yesterday so managed some gardening. Even the lawn has been cut.

Enjoy your trip to Italy TG. Not sure when we'll be getting out and about again.

We had some shattering news, last night. Our 15 year old grandson is a super fit lad - plays football for a local team and regularly goes to the gym - he's also very bright and is about to sit his GCSEs. Hadn't been feeling to well for some time so he and his dad searched the internet, checking his symptoms, (yes, I know you shouldn't!).  Although unlikely, everything pointed towards diabetes.  Got a home blood sugar test kit and the whole family tested themselves - all OK apart from grandson whose sugar levels were obviously too high.  Immediate appointment with the GP who had him admitted to hospital straight away. He has to stay there for three days and it was almost immediately confirmed that he has Type 1 diabetes. No history of it in the family as far as anyone is aware.

He is being treated by the specialist diabetes team at the hospital who, apparently have been wonderful and have spent all of today with mum and son explaining how his condition has to be managed in the future. He is going to have some sort of insulin pump attached to his ankle which communicates with his phone and automatically keeps his blood sugar stable. Gone are the days, it seems, of having to inject oneself every day - but it's very expensive for the NHS, apparently - about £500 per month.

Such improvements in treatment and technology are perhaps something we take for granted and clearly aren't compensated for by increased funding of the NHS.