The New Abode

We head to Manchester today to see Daughter’s new abode in Eccles. She now has her own place which is good as she does have a ferocious ability to see off flatmates.

She has no furniture yet, just a blow up mattress and a gym ball. Which is probably all you need but we’re going to order her a bed and her father is going to order her a settee. We do all spoil her. Although her settee isn’t due to be delivered for a month but in the meantime I guess perching on her gym ball will do wonders for her core.

I even show her how to switch her hot water on (I think).

We check out the local pubs and have Sunday Lunch in the Barton Arms, an Ember Inns pubs. Not bad and with a decent selection of beers.

On the journey we start the new Robert Galbraith book ‘Career of Evil’ on audio of course.

 (Sunday 20^th March)

The Cuckoo's Calling And Oban Too

This morning we leave for holiday and travel up to Oban. As is often the case on these long journeys we take an audiobook with us. L nominated the new JK Rowling... I wasn’t initially keen but this is the new incognito as man private detective story ‘The Cuckoo’s Calling’ written under the name Robert Galbraith and its very very good. It's really sad that people felt the need to expose her as the author.

Having arrived in Oban, we’ve just got to wait a week now to find out the conclusion. 

Oban is a place that we haven’t really visited before, only passed through. So this year we've dedicated two nights and one day to Oban. Perhaps this is a mistake, it’s a strange place. A mix of industrial estates, housing estates with a ferry terminal and a permanent traffic jam. We camp at the back of one of the industrial/housing estates at Roseview campsite, in what is actually quite an idyllic location.

I’m not sure L is terribly impressed though. We’ve only had the tent up five minutes and I come back from checking out the facilities to find she’s set fire to it. A night or even a week in a 5 star hotel isn’t obtained quite that easily though. I get out the tent repair kit. Pretty soon, with the aid of patches, glue and some safety pins, it’s almost as good as new. 

(Thursday 15^th August)