A Blogger in Black

Wednesday 23 rd October Another half-term break and another trip up to the Caravan & Motorhome Club site at Crystal Palace, South London.   I’ve said on my many visits here that it may be the last time, well now it is. The axe is falling with Bromley council not renewing the lease. They want the land to fund regeneration of the nearby park, so likely pricey houses and flats then. Such a shame – Trev and I started our caravanning journey there, visiting most years and since he died I’ve been coming up twice a year – only covid paused that. I have many happy memories of our and my visits. The journey up was ok, aside from a few rain showers which at least helped to clean the windscreen. Hetty has developed another fault and this time it’s the windscreen washers. I’ve never really warmed to this car in the two years that I’ve had it, mostly thanks to the niggles. I even looked at changing it but the value has plummeted and I simply couldn’t stomach the financial hit. She do...