Listen Up Peeps. There’s an Emergency.
The word on the block is.
That Bruce with a tear in his eye. Is not sleeping well
Border control confiscated his Cuddly Koala.
Please send your redundant Teddy Bears. >>>
xyz.ozzie brucie@manchester.org.
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I discovered that the pickup point from P3 Express Pick Up was not free, it was £6. I assumed because there was no barrier it was free but apparently they check the number plate and somehow send you a bill.
Bruce
You think that is bad. Remember the expression " going spend a penny"? well since you have been away it is now gone up to being called “going to spend a fiver”
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I do remember in London having to pay to go to the toilet though I haven’t come across it yet.
Yesterday I went with my brother to Macclesfield to get his new specs and he paid £1.40 to park in a council car park for 0-1 hour on a Sunday!
There is some irony in the fact that I have worn glasses all my life and now don’t need them, he has never needed glasses most of his life and now does.
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Sunday is probably the principle retail selling day of the week in the UK. So I’m almost surprised that the Sunday rate for parking was not more expensive than, say, the Tuesday rate.
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Jethro Wonders !!
If Bruce is still under the duvet.
Cuddling up wif Teddy.
After staying up unill 4am
Watching Eng. Giving Mexico a Run 4 its money.
50+ Matron will be very very Very Cross. If he didn’t.
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Visited Cheltenham today, drove down the M5/6. The traffic was like driving in Sydney all the time, it came to a near halt a couple of times but it seemed to flow well otherwise even though there was a lot of it.
Cheltenham streets have shrunk, everything seemed smaller but my brother and I visited where we grew up. He reckons it has not shrunk it is just that I have got bigger!
He learned that we had a great uncle that died at the end of WWI (of Spanish Flu) because I showed him the name on the war memorial outside the Municipal Offices and about the employer of all our great aunts (Shires and Lance’s). I wasn’t aware he didn’t know about these little snippets.
After visiting various premises that belonged to various relatives we had an all day breakfast and coffee at a cafe then visited Pittville Park and the Pump House (it is Cheltenham SPA) for a stroll about before making our way back to Macclesfield.
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I had a quiet chuckle to myself over the last few days with everybody around me wilting in the heat. I am just thinking how nice it is to be warm, it would be nice if the humidity was a bit lower but that is the only improvement.
I would be freezing at home with the maximum temperature of 16°. July and August are the worst of the winter months where I live.
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You certainly picked a good time to visit the UK Bruce…
The heat is getting Mrs Fox down, and I think she is rearranging her bucket list not to go and live in Spain after all… 
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Quite right ! Maybe Iceland would be a better choice !
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For what’s worth the climate has changed, at least in my lifetime. We had snow and ice regularly when I going to school. And we had that huge freeze in 1963. Now we rarely get snow here. So yes, people here do whinge about about the heat…
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Sixteen degrees sounds lovely to me at the moment!
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At least supermarkets have air con but would they allow you to live there?
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Actually, ours drive to the door for us we don’t use supermarkets. Or not much else.
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I have spent most of the last week visiting Folkestone, where I grew up. It was familiar yet very much changed since I left in 1966
The Telephone Exchange where I first started work was still there but a shadow of its former self I suspect.
The harbour hasn’t changed much except that most of the fishing fleet appears to have disappeared and the Harbour Arm is now a pedestrian precinct, no ship call there any more.
…and the Sunny Sands has gained a statue and is obviously still a popular beach.
The Battle of Britain Museum and Memorial are miles apart.
But once you see the image of Mickey Mouse you cant unsee it
The Viaduct is still there
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That is why the “High Street” has been consigned to history, one does not need a documentary to analyze what has happened 
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I bought some whelks (I love whelks)
Very expensive - £10 for this little lot, however I repeated the purchase the next day.
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Hi Bruce
Whelks?
Never eaten one, used to collect them, brilliant fishing bait
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Good Morning Bruce
Some wonderful photos .
Oh my goodness not sure about those whelks 
though , didn’t even know they were edible … it’s put me off my porridge.
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Yep, terrific pictures Bruce!
Haven’t been to Folkestone and that area for many a year. Something else to add to the to do list. I did try an oyster in Brighton a couple of years back. I won’t be doing that again! 
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