A Blogger in Black

Saturday 15 th March Just four weeks after my last trip it was Patsy time again. With Easter falling later the powers that be at the private school that I work at had brought the ‘Easter’ break forward. I’m not complaining – we still get a long weekend for Easter proper too – and with state schools not breaking up for another couple of weeks or so, everywhere is quieter. I was heading north again – hardly surprising, If I headed more than half a mile south I’d get wet – to the northern border of Cambridgeshire – not too far from where I’d spent the half-term break, to a CL   a few miles west of Wisbech. A prompt start, calling in for the usual caravanning ‘essentials’ on the way to storage and I was on the road before 9am – unbelievably, as planned. A straightforward journey with mercifully no queues at the Dartford tunnel, the nice lady from Google Maps wanted to send me cross country once north of Cambridge but I ignored her – not for the first time. To be fair...

Friday 7 th February February half-term week – for the last six years or so I would have been heading up to London with Patsy and having the usual whinge about traffic and south London’s pot holed roads, but not this time. Regulars will know that the Crystal Palace site has now closed and I’d booked the Abbey Wood site to continue the tradition of a winter break in the capital. However, regulars will also know that my right knee has been giving me grief for some considerable time and in the last third of 2024 it deteriorated noticeably. Setting out for the day with a packed lunch and mooching around, as I’ve done so many times, just wasn’t possible at the moment, and it seemed, with Crystal Palace closing, a good time to have a break from the capital. Then another possibility presented itself, which confirmed my decision and would allow me to indulge in my rekindled love of fun fairs in general and the Waltzer in particular – at the Kings Lynn Mart. The Mart marks the ...