So today we had a fairly quiet day planned save for a coffee at Ninesprings with Gemma my work colleague with whom I shared an office for years. This evening we were going for a meal with my newly remarried 'cousin' actually second cousin as his grandma and my grandma were sisters so much more of a cousin than some of the tenuous cousin relationships you get in Cyprus!! and we had some bits and bobs which needed doing in town and I wanted to top up Clio but apart from that nothing - nada!
So we started the day by going down to Ninesprings which is a fabulous country park just off the centre of town. It is well looked after and a really beautiful green space. We were taking cockapoo Lily for a walk so parked up in the swimming pool car park and walked up the hill - it really was a stunning walk and I was trying to get a photograph but there was a couple with two small children right in the way and not about to move so I gave up trying to avoid the being in the shot when they took up residence on the park bench right at the top of the hill for a prolonged breather! Typical!
As Hazel and I climbed up the hill towards the bench I had the sudden realisation that I recognised the two adults. Bugger me if it wasn't Pete and Helen who used to be our next door neighbours in Glenthorne Avenue and who have stayed in our villa. We saw them only a year or so ago when they returned to Paphos for an early break. We stopped to have a catch up and a chat and then kept bumping into them and their two grand children as they were on some sort of treasure hunt in the park!!
Haze, Lily and I had a fabulous walk around Ninesprings although I managed to aggravate my sciatica but nothing that a couple of Neurofen couldn't sort out! Ninesprings really is such a brilliant asset to Yeovil and Yeovilians are so lucky to have it right on their doorstep.
We found Gemma and Mark and Archie and Jack outside the cafe. I can't tell you how lovely it was to see them and catch up on their latest adventure of converting an erstwhile drug den into their new family home in Sherborne. Best of luck to them - I know that they will make it into a brilliant family home.
We returned to Horton Close via Sparrow Road where we picked up the fascinator that Hazel has hired for the wedding.
After lunch we took another trip into town to run a few more errands which involved a trip to Wilkinsons and another to Asda for Deisel - oh how I missed the personal service at the petrol pump which I have grown to love in Cyprus - no-one came to fill my tank or wash my windscreen!!
On our return we had some downtime before getting ready to go out so I used it to finish reading the Michael Morpurgo book - it said on the cover it was a 'must read' and I would agree - I have left it for Hazel to enjoy.
This evening we were meeting up with Frank and Kim. Frank and I are related as I said earlier and when we were younger our respective families spent quite a lot of time together then some years later when I moved to Yeovil and Frank was a young trainee policeman we knocked around together and provided babysitting services for Frank's landlord and lady, Penny and Derek, when they lived in the park. I also remember Frank was very tall so he came in handy when I needed some curtains hung in the flat I was renting in Wessex Road.
Time passed and we went our separate ways and then we got back in touch - by this time Frank was married to Kate and their kids Robbie and Jo were teenagers. Mum keeps in touch with Frank's mum Jan.
Anyway to cut a long story short we then moved to Cyprus and haven't really been in touch and in that time Frank and Kate divorced and now Frank is married to Kim - very recently. Robbie is 30 and married and Jo gets married next year. Frank has retired from the police force and now works for an undertakers and actually did both Hazel's Mum's and Dad's funeral and she thought he was called Malcolm!!
On arriving at the Half Moon Mudford Hazel and Kim realised they knew one another - both of them being owners of a cockapoo!! We had a fab evening reminiscing and realising how much we had in common including the fact that Frank and Kim nearly bought the house next door to the one we used to live in, in Fennel Way. Conversation turned round to the girl I used to share a flat with in Wessex Road. She was a Meecham and the Meechams used to have a very old general store in Crewkerne (where Frank lived for many years).
I was explaining to Kim that old Mr Meecham used to run a shop and wore a brown dust coat like Ronnie Barker in Open All Hours and Frank could tell me that Ronnie Barker used to sit in that self same shop and actually modelled his character on old Mr Meecham and old Mr Meecham's snappy old till which nearly took his fingers off.
Don't believe me???? Read all about it here!
So we started the day by going down to Ninesprings which is a fabulous country park just off the centre of town. It is well looked after and a really beautiful green space. We were taking cockapoo Lily for a walk so parked up in the swimming pool car park and walked up the hill - it really was a stunning walk and I was trying to get a photograph but there was a couple with two small children right in the way and not about to move so I gave up trying to avoid the being in the shot when they took up residence on the park bench right at the top of the hill for a prolonged breather! Typical!
As Hazel and I climbed up the hill towards the bench I had the sudden realisation that I recognised the two adults. Bugger me if it wasn't Pete and Helen who used to be our next door neighbours in Glenthorne Avenue and who have stayed in our villa. We saw them only a year or so ago when they returned to Paphos for an early break. We stopped to have a catch up and a chat and then kept bumping into them and their two grand children as they were on some sort of treasure hunt in the park!!
Haze, Lily and I had a fabulous walk around Ninesprings although I managed to aggravate my sciatica but nothing that a couple of Neurofen couldn't sort out! Ninesprings really is such a brilliant asset to Yeovil and Yeovilians are so lucky to have it right on their doorstep.
We found Gemma and Mark and Archie and Jack outside the cafe. I can't tell you how lovely it was to see them and catch up on their latest adventure of converting an erstwhile drug den into their new family home in Sherborne. Best of luck to them - I know that they will make it into a brilliant family home.
We returned to Horton Close via Sparrow Road where we picked up the fascinator that Hazel has hired for the wedding.
After lunch we took another trip into town to run a few more errands which involved a trip to Wilkinsons and another to Asda for Deisel - oh how I missed the personal service at the petrol pump which I have grown to love in Cyprus - no-one came to fill my tank or wash my windscreen!!
On our return we had some downtime before getting ready to go out so I used it to finish reading the Michael Morpurgo book - it said on the cover it was a 'must read' and I would agree - I have left it for Hazel to enjoy.
This evening we were meeting up with Frank and Kim. Frank and I are related as I said earlier and when we were younger our respective families spent quite a lot of time together then some years later when I moved to Yeovil and Frank was a young trainee policeman we knocked around together and provided babysitting services for Frank's landlord and lady, Penny and Derek, when they lived in the park. I also remember Frank was very tall so he came in handy when I needed some curtains hung in the flat I was renting in Wessex Road.
Time passed and we went our separate ways and then we got back in touch - by this time Frank was married to Kate and their kids Robbie and Jo were teenagers. Mum keeps in touch with Frank's mum Jan.
Anyway to cut a long story short we then moved to Cyprus and haven't really been in touch and in that time Frank and Kate divorced and now Frank is married to Kim - very recently. Robbie is 30 and married and Jo gets married next year. Frank has retired from the police force and now works for an undertakers and actually did both Hazel's Mum's and Dad's funeral and she thought he was called Malcolm!!
On arriving at the Half Moon Mudford Hazel and Kim realised they knew one another - both of them being owners of a cockapoo!! We had a fab evening reminiscing and realising how much we had in common including the fact that Frank and Kim nearly bought the house next door to the one we used to live in, in Fennel Way. Conversation turned round to the girl I used to share a flat with in Wessex Road. She was a Meecham and the Meechams used to have a very old general store in Crewkerne (where Frank lived for many years).
I was explaining to Kim that old Mr Meecham used to run a shop and wore a brown dust coat like Ronnie Barker in Open All Hours and Frank could tell me that Ronnie Barker used to sit in that self same shop and actually modelled his character on old Mr Meecham and old Mr Meecham's snappy old till which nearly took his fingers off.
Don't believe me???? Read all about it here!
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