A week of mixed fortunes...

All ready for the house warming BBQ.

 Saturday and we were kindly invited to a house warming BBQ at the new home of a long lost friend.  Gary who we hadn't seen for about thirteen years has got a new partner and a new home.  An old mill house on the beck at North Cave.  Lovely old place with loads of character and of course with the beck running through the garden it seems like the ideal country residence, or not, if you are paying the bills but if you can afford the 3/4 million pounds purchase price you can afford to run it!

Gary's mill mansion.

It was a great afternoon meeting up with people who we hadn't seen for some time and also having a laugh with some who we see fairly regularly.  Bit of a shame that one or two more didn't turn up but those that were there were the ones who mattered.

Thanks Karen and Gary hope it's not another thirteen years or I will be an old miserable sod!

A few days earlier the father of a very close friend was involved in a serious accident whilst crossing a pedestrian crossing.  Unfortunately on Monday morning he lost his fight to recover from the injuries.  Hilton was one of the nicest, most genuine people you could have met.  Always quick with a witticism and banter, sometime unintentionally.  He had a fantastic sense of humour right to the end and will be sadly missed by Sandra and I.  R.I.P. Hilton Barrow.

Let's have a burning session while it's dry!

 We have still not got the new oil tank and still have the temporary storage tanks in the paddock.  Unfortunately one of these sprung a leak on Tuesday night but it was fixed fairly quickly by capping off the offending valve however we did loose some oil this time, luckily it's not in a place where it'll do any harm.
This visit home just seems to keep sending us more problems, I think we might head off to Greece and leave it all behind!

We have managed to get a few day's good weather this week, in fact it's been very humid and sweaty.  So before the weather breaks I thought I would have a fire in the garden to get rid of some old stuff out of the garage and also all those documents with bank account numbers on them etc. rather than risk them getting into the wrong hands