It’s been a LONG time!
Filed under: Random Thoughts, wwwTrek
Hi guys! It seems like forever since I put a blog post up here. I’m pretty sure it was when I was in the UK in 2009, and here we are near the end of 2011!! How fast does time go?? I’ve got all kinds of half written stories that I will eventually fill in the gaps with. But if you look on the upside, life must have been busy for me to be too busy to blog. Which is always good I suppose!
So what’s happening now? Well, I’m heading back to the sunny isle of England for 6 weeks! (did I say sunny? ok… I’m a comedian). But truly, if you can get past all that weather stuff & the gloomy attitude of a lot of people, the UK is a pretty awesome place to visit! You have to give a little respect to a civilisation that has lasted so long on the same spot, and in many cases the same building! I stayed in one of King Henry VIII’s castles (Thornberry) & it’s meant to be about 500+ years old. That’s respectable by any standards! Most majestic still, wonderful food, however the bed could have gotten by without being 500+ years old too.
If you don’t actually “know” me, you may have missed out on my West Aussie roadtrip in 2010, but I shall fill in the gaps with all that later too. We can call that section “The Missing Years”. Though for the most part, I am pretty eratic at this kind of stuff anyway. For me to have down time is pretty rare, as is evident by the cobwebs growing across my studio shelves. When the dogs food has taken up residence on your workbench, you know you’re working too much!
Which leads me to this trip. This is a pure holiday. No research. No work. Except for emergencies… the brain is switching off & recharging the batteries. Paul having to go home was a good excuse to have a break. For both of us! Life has been all kinds of hectic for the past few years. Now things are slowly getting themselves together, it’s a great time to take a breather before the next hectic stage of my life happens. Life really does start at 50! 
So hopefully, fingers crossed, I might get more of a chance to blog now. You never know!
Anyone who knows me, knows I love the “different”, so it stands to reason that I would love something that was haunted! Paul was awesome & came up with the Jamaica Inn to stay at. Like many people I had I heard about the Jamaica Inn in the film based on the book written by Daphne du Maurier, but I didn’t know it was haunted until he told me. A couple of weeks later we saw it was on the TV show Most Haunted, and “wooohooo”, they featured room 5 which was our room booked! How exciting!
What a beautiful morning! Couch cough! It rained most of the night & here it was time to pack up & it still wont stop raining. We woke this morning to a nice puddle forming in the tent due to poor tent design. Water that should fall down the side of the tent, also flowed into our tent. Scavenging for something to mop up with, Paul throws me a chamois, which I am sure is about a century old! To prove my point it kept falling to pieces as I was wiping up!
It was after 5pm that we finally made our way into new Forest, Holmsley, after a beautiful drive through some awesome countryside. No one was at the front office/shop, so we made our way around the caravan park looking for a camping pitch. 
Even as you enter Brighton you can feel the holiday beachside atmosphere. Driving down the main drag it reminded me of being on a movie set. The grandeur of the buildings & the alfresco lifestyle all lent itself to being a great place to spend the summer holidays… that is of course if the sun actually shon!
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