Just over a year ago I volunteered The Boss to make this... The New Forest Gift Knowing that we had left our mark on the New Forest Centenary site... and also knowing that 'I' was the person to volunteer his services... our Longleat Wardens started to wonder, out loud, what could be added to the... Continue Reading →
Escape Time
It's been bonkers busy at work. I've been in the office all afternoon and the telephone hasn't stopped ringing. 'I'd like to make a booking' has been said more times than I can count. A motorhome pulls into view, our other assistant wardens back from a few days away at the seaside. I'm just a... Continue Reading →
Longleat Food and Drink Festival
After a very miserable and damp start to June, I rub the sleep out of my eyes to clear blue skies and the sun streaming through the skylight above our bed. Lions roaring in the distance, only in Wiltshire! Lazy morning off from site duties. Up, showered and dressed, we amble round the corner into... Continue Reading →
Twitter Camp #TC4T
It's taken me a while to get my act together and put this blog together, my blogging mojo has dipped a bit, I need to try to get it back. It's a blog I needed to write about an event I'm glad we had the opportunity to attend, in memory of a man, I'm glad... Continue Reading →
Frome Independent Traders Market
We'd seen the signs at the sides of the road earlier in the week and chosen to either not read them or ignore them, they won't apply to us. 'Frome Independent Traders Market, this Sunday' they'd clearly stated all week. Why would we want to go into Frome on a Bank Holiday Sunday? Why take... Continue Reading →
Capability Brown’s Pleasure Walk in Longleat
A well deserved day off started off with a little bit of a lie in. Needed a wee so much though that I had to get up at 8am. There's a bit of a nip in the air as I dash from the awning to the loo wrapping my dressing gown around me, hoping no-one's... Continue Reading →
Our Caravan Store Cupboard
As the season races on and folk start to think about winding up the legs and hitching up, possibly for the first time this season, this is when people start to make lists in order to re pack their vans after their hibernation over the dark winter months. The green winter storage jackets are carefully... Continue Reading →
Our Leaky Awning… Make Do and Mend
All set up for season two and the heavens open. Rain, Rain, Go away. Come again another day. Only it didn't go away, but it did come again the following day. We bought our awning a couple of years ago, in anticipation of starting the job. There is no way we'd have such a big... Continue Reading →
Back to The Grindstone
The last four months has flown by, in the blink of an eye. Our first season as assistant wardens at the New Forest Centenary Site finished early last November. We were more than ready for a break. Six weeks winter caravanning followed by some Jellybean time took us into 2019. Six weeks of winter sunshine... Continue Reading →
He Says, She Says on the Sea Shore
Wall to wall beautiful blue skies, little wisps of clouds, sun on our faces and the waves gently lapping on the beach just across from our chosen restaurant for lunch. Destination, Lanzarote. After eight months of working on the New Forest Centenary Site, cleaning the loos, pruning trees, cutting the grass and trimming hedges, booking... Continue Reading →