Had a night away last night with David to recharge our batteries, booked a room at the pub of the year 2016, 6 miles outside Ripon, also booked a meal…… it was like Fawlty Towers.

We arrived at 4:30 yesterday afternoon, David took the dogs for a walk, and I went to check in with the small case. The pub was locked. I phoned the pub and a grumpy man answered, ‘what do you want?’…. ‘We are booked in for tonight’ I responded.

‘We don’t have you in for tonight, did you book on line?’ I am sat outside the pub on a freezing cold wooden bench – -2c
‘I booked on the phone with a lady, who also confirmed I could bring the dogs’. …. ‘No nothing in the diary’.

‘Oh, just a minute – she has scribbled it here, she didn’t put it in the diary, I’ll come and let you in,’

David arrives back and we walk in to an empty pub and I fill a card in with our details. ‘We also have a meal booked for 8 pm’, I said….. ‘Not in diary’, he says!! Good grief.

‘We will be shutting the pub at 9:30, won’t be anyone in, always quiet on a Monday night at this time of year.’ he said with great joy.

‘I see there is a pub across the road, we will go across there after our meal,’ I said.

‘I own that too, it isn’t open Mondays and Tuesdays, this time of year!!’

We did have a lovely meal, went to bed at 9:30 – just about to go on Trip Advisor and reduce some of his 5 stars!!

At vets with my 2 dogs for their boosters. One on the extending walking lead. Check in, walked to seat that wasn’t taped off….. then noticed lead stretched to full.

Suzy stood outside, door had shut on lead and it had continued unravelling as I walked to my seat!!

Didn’t know it stretched that far!!!!

The stimulating conversations David and I have since lockdown.

This am

David, ‘I’ve decided to go to Tesco at 3:15’

Me (sarcastic), ‘not 3:14 or 3:18?’

David ‘no I’ve worked it out, that’s when it will be quieter, before it shuts’

My thoughts…. (how the hell did you work that one out!!???)

David ‘you can come with me if you like’

Best offer of the day, but I declined….

David ‘you could write a list if you want anything’

Me ‘ok, thanks’

David disappears, end of morning conversation.

So today, we had a helicopter flying round and round low over where We live.. went on a long while. I left my work in the house to see what was going on…

here’s the thing, with lockdown, the most boring things arouse excitement.

After a chat with neighbours, I tasked myself to go on Twitter and see what the fuss was about.
I did a search ‘police helicopter Gomersal’

Bingo

Top find… someone else wanting to know if anyone knew what the helicopter above Gomersal was looking for…. so we were not alone!

I responded, that we were also wondering the same. Nobody else had put anything.

THEN I noticed the date of the tweet I had just responded to… March 2017!!!

Hope it wasn’t same chuffing helicopter over 3 years later, still doing circles 🥴