We liked Glastonbury, we have a good bunch of friends who ride motorbikes and offer up the odd meet and so it was in May. A meet for fish and chips ad a beer or two in Glastonbury. If I recall correctly the meet was a Friday evening so we rode down and stayed in an air b and b in the town We met up and had a lovely evening and did the same for breakfast near the travel lodge where a few were staying. We then said our goodbyes and went off to explore the Tor....
A lovely day with some great views and even better memories
All on the bike. This time it was the two up touring bike of choice the Honda 750.
We were also walking enjoying our wonderful cottage surroundings. One of the many peacocks that live at the wildlife sanctuary down the lane - technically our neighbour !
Rachel sings in a choir on Wednesday evening so I tend to have that time for exploring on the bike. I have to feed myself so fish and chips in Matlock bath is something I've been doing on a bike for nearly 50 years !!
The weaver hills has some stunning views
Not all play, the circular patio is in now so we moved the shed but I laid a decent base for it as I hope it'll live there for a while now
We have a 'workshop' seen in other pictures. When we brought the cottage it was basically two rooms, one side bare brick as an office the other side bare brick as a laundry room/workshop. With an outside toilet. All very basic and rudimentary
Over many months I've converted it using timbers taken from my sons house when we removed one of his stud walls, so its fully insulated plastered re wired and re heated. Also it now is double glazed, has patio doors to the home office/sun room. Has a fully plumbed in laundry room with washer and tumble dryer. Then it has a small workshop at the back of the laundry room where the house batteries and inverter live with solar on both elevations of the roof. Finally I bricked up the outside toilet and re fitted the loo with bi folding door so it now has its own internal loo. I tried to get a builder to do it but no luck so all done on my own apart from the plastering - I did all the boarding and the electrics that I also did were signed off with a certificate by a local electrician. It was formally opened and Rachel works in there for the NHS and the University . We call it the dog house, people who have a dog can stay there with their dog if they visit.
George Jnr came a visiting later in the month - like his grandad he loves fruit.
He's a very quite lad a watcher and a thinker
Towards the end of the month we had a day at Butterley rail centre with the three other grandkids who are very much the opposite, very energetic and outgoing. It was a lovely day but tiring for old bones
While we were playing my eldest was plying his trade as an exceptional tattooist - quite extraordinary the level of detail in this art
When we had free time we were still walking exploring and enjoying the Caldon canal in our valley.
Plus when the shifts were available I was riding the blood bikes to give a bit back. This is the evening Haywood Hospital to Royal Stoke path labs run which an 8pm pick up and it part of the 7pm-11pm shift.
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