Wednesday 14 and Thursday 15 February 2024
Flying
to Gatwick at 9.15 am today (Wed), so an
early start, seamless check out and a cheap tram ride to Bergen Airport.
Norwegian Air’s 737 is a comfortable 1.50 hr flight into a green and wet
England. But, it’s 11c positive. We need to strip off more layers and as some of you
blokes will appreciate, it’s great to be out of tights and into just trousers.
Our
2-door, Kia hire car turns out to be 5 door Vauxhall, which while small, is a
zippy little car.
The
drive to our digs in Westhumble (Dorking nearest town) takes about half an hour
and we arrive to lunch prepared by Emma Louise and Johnny, the family selling
this stately home on inheritance.
We
are on 10 acres, in the country, about 3.5 miles from Dorking. Just love the
imperial measurements. Reminds me of 1960’s. Johnny grew up here and his
parents have just passed away, so our job is to live here, in a seven bedroom five
bathroom country home, for the next six weeks and assist with the open homes
and inspections. Lady P has already bought flowers, laid the dining table with
the family heirlooms and crystal and Flashy has cleaned the kitchen and visited
all rooms to decide where to have a gin.
Flashy
was up early on Thursday morning to make the coffee and was startled when Lady
P screamed something unintelligible. Turns out it was to point out a very large
pheasant strutting about the front lawn. Flashy, in the absence of a 12g, is
devising a cunning plan to trap and eat said bird!
Before
heading into town Thursday morning, for some shopping, Flashy sets the open
fire for the 4 pm fire light, relax and have some gins, planned for this
afternoon.
Home
after a successful shopping trip to make some garlic, ginger coconut soup, as we
are craving those flavours after a few days on the road and some fairly
ordinary food. We have duty free gin and some Spanish red, so feel we are right
for a few days.
Fire is successfully alight, soup is made and gins are just about to be poured.
Nice digs, was it a large pheasant or a large peasant strutting about the front lawn?
ReplyDeleteI was on a video call to LadyP at the time of discovery. Can confirm pheasant was both large and strutting.
ReplyDeleteTaking pet sitting to new heights, I see. Just don't publish your naughty comments Roger.
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