First of all apologies for not blogging whilst in North Yorkshire. It is possible to use a laptop at the Caravan and hopefully I shall do this when we are next up there.
My last post detailed my concerns for Ev. Fortunately the ban was lifted very quickly last Tuesday. It appears several long haul BA flights took off before permission to land in UK Air Space was given. This could be the only explanation of how a flight from Vancouver landed 2 minutes before the official lifting of the ban. Bear in mind the journey time here of 11 hours. Much has been written by what I call the 20/20 visionary and wise after the event people that the ban was unnecessary. We now know this to be the case but you can only imagine what would have happened if a plane had gone down and it had got out that warnings had been given. Ian and Lorna cancelled because they could not get a flight before 2 May nearly a week after Ev gets back. What this shows I guess is despite the recession loads of us are still able to fly round the world judging by the number of Brits still stranded.
As for Ev herself I have been speaking to her every day. She remains remarkably resilient but it can't be too much fun for her. Last night she told me one of the other guests had asked her if she played Scrabble. This comes under the heading of can a Duck swim? The only snag here is one of do they use American or English Spellings? I think this is one case where it is safe to leave them to work it out.
One other positive thing about Florida. We have a three week share. Cousins David and Mary Ann have bought a unit for two of the weeks we are there and Cousins June and Bill have bought a unit fot the third week. All of this has made me wonder how much more expensive it would be to fly via Canada. It would be a thought if we have another ash cloud fiasco.
I enjoyed my week at the caravan. Gosh I feel a little guilty in even saying that. Sleep pattern has been uneven. A couple of days I woke up with acid problems. One night in particular was unpleasant in that I had to get up. Otherwise courtesy of drinking water I went back to sleep. Not for the first time the pattern didn't follow any kind of timetable in when and what I ate. As far as swallowing is concerned, I am delighted to report that I am starting to worry less about leaving portions of food uneaten in Restaurants if the servings are too big. This applied to a bowl of chili con carne on Thursday and a whopping chicken Caesar salad on Saturday.
Though I would like to see people when I visit the North East I am mindful that I still need to rest. For example on Friday I had no visitors and decided to chill out completely. It was a day for reading and sleeping. This came in handy for what turned out to be a long journey South so please don't be offended. I had intended to leave the caravan at around 4.00. In the event I left half an hour earlier which was as well because there were two hold ups on the M1. I did arrive in plenty of time for the ferry having had two rest stops on the way. The total journey time was 8 hours 20 minutes. It will be interesting to know how long Ev's flight on Wednesday will take.
Time to go an do some programme preparation.
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