Me first (RP). Yesterday was a thoroughly relaxing day. We (well, Tim) unhooked the bikes for the back of Harvey and tested them out. This sort of thing always needed to be tested and by 'the man himself'. Tim came to collect his 'Swiss Army Wife' and went back out the bike, adrenalin pumping through his veins. He was at it AGAIN!! If he'd been at home, all the tools would be out and the spread out over the kitchen until he found the very tool he was after. They would eventually go back in his van for him to sleep on when on a trip. I think he's guarding them really! Anyway, he mended the gears on one of the bikes, and away we went.
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| Rear view! |
It was a VERY hot day. We wanted to investigate the town. It was great. We stopped at a tea room about 20 yards up the road as we were ready for a break by then. We had biscuit and egg and bacon. Their biscuit is a scone or scon (however you choose to say it). Very nice!
Refreshed for the next 20 yards, we went on.
One store sold Potato bags made from cotton and looking like a cloth envelope. Apparently they were to microwave baked potatoes in, wrapped in a damp paper towel.....
'They'll come out awl soft ya see'.
Nah, I passed on that!! Thank you though.
We spent a long while going round the area, saw a church we decided to visit the next day and then saw........da da da da.....(Beethoven's 5th)
Him now (TP).
Ruth very kindly let me loose in a motorbike museum, Wheels Through Time. It was a vast array of motorbike (and car) memorabilia.
Tools, socket sets, spanners, wrenches, screwdrivers, drills, hammers! The lot. I was in my element (at last). 15 bucks each and an hour well spent.
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| Timmy Heaven! |
We (well, I) came away really happy with the afternoon.
Me again (RP).
For dinner, we treated ourselves to a lovely steak in a restaurant, J.Arthur's, down the road.
Now for the biggie! This was going to be great!
We had heard that on our site there was to be a gospel concert at 7pm. So, we made sure we were back in time. They had started early.
The guy that was singing had been on American Idol a few years before and had been offered a contract with a Nashville record label. He had then met stars such as Dolly Parton and was now touring the mountains.
This guy had written a few gospel songs especially for campers such as 'Mamma, don't flush the loo, I'm in the shower', 'The Walmart song' and one about his wife, 'I love you more than Ice Cream'. He paused only to let us know that the sudden flurry of fire trucks was caused by the Dollar General store being on fire!
As the concert went on, the campers flocked to the concert on their golf buggies! There seems to be an awful lot of them on this campsite....golf buggies I mean and at the last count before we left early there were 12 golf buggies at the concert.
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| A small selection of interested campers?! |
It was all very uplifting.
A lovely day.
