Dateline: Monday 8th November 2021

Well what a weekend that was - it was more than a bit "full on" to say the least!

To begin, we had been asked by the eldest to feed their cats (so in the mind of the youngest that was the priority!) 

So on Saturday morning (because they did not need feeding until tea-time) we all headed off to Barnstaple.  The first port of call was to the electrical store (that has changed its' name more times than that I can remember) to make a formal complaint about the fridge that was purchased about 8 weeks ago.

The problem being that said appliance has a habit of making ice despite being turned to less than 1 on the temperature control.

The upshot of that visit was that I was asked to call again on Sunday to discuss the problem with a member of the team who has specialist knowledge about these appliances.

Having left there I went to the iLab to collect my replacement pencil that was an exchange for the one that had failed.

The cats were fed when we arrived back in Ilfracombe.

Sunday

After feeding the cats and dropping Dawn home it was another trip to Barnstaple to meet the specialist, then on to a famous Coffee House before heading back to Ilfracombe.

The afternoon passed relatively uneventfully and eventually we had to sort the cats again before going back to Barnstaple to view the Rugby Club's firework display.... at this point things really went down hill fast......

The traditional Chinese food cannot be ordered in advance......it has to be ordered in the shop and in previous years the owner has always placed the food in polystyrene containers but this year (for some peculiar reason known only to herself) she refused and said that the items would have to be packed separately.  I said that was not practical or what we actually wanted, but she remained stubbornly imovable.

Alison and Dawn decided that they wanted to carry on with the order but I chose not to.

Eventually we drove to our normal vantage point...............totally rammed!

We moved to the next one.....................totally rammed!

The third one offered a space but behind a clump of trees.......

by this time I was close to losing my cool!

The cork popped when Alison started quizzing me about my reasons for not ordering any food.

And the icing on the cake................when we arrived home we discovered that someone had broken the lid of our recycling box while we had been out.  So I had to repair that.

I eventually sat down to a plate of cheese on toast at about 8.45pm.

Not a happy bunny!