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Fred & Gill
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    Hello Keith pleased to see that yourself and Zarita are both well. Take care as you are even more ‘senior’ than me!

    Thanks for the great tip about marking the tyres as its going to be a long lay off.

    Think that we will take the van for a little run soon, as you know there are some great hills here on our doorstep in Bath to warm the engine up thoroughly. As usual good tips from Barry, I have also read that it is not a good idea to run the engine whilst stationary as it will not get up to temperature and clear exhaust gases.

    I close my sink plugs and open the drain valves ( fresh and waste tanks drained) and boiler drain open.

    The engine battery should ‘trickle’ charge whilst on EHU……..I took advantage of the recent full sunshine to charge mine for free from the solar panels on my house roof, those such as Barry with solar on the van roof will not have problems at this time of year.

    We reflect on our little  daffodils ‘wild camp’ trip immediately before the lockdown.

    We walk most days ( wearing Gills handmade masks, gloves and anti viral soaked cloths for wiping down after touching the ‘ 6 kissing gates’ down through the woods to Tucking Mill and have watched the wild flowers come and go ( primroses and now bluebells) and forage the wild garlic leaves for Gill to make wonderful home made soup. The flowers are out now which looks a lovely site interspersed with the bluebells… luckily there are still young fresh leaves underneath at the moment- guess we will be picking the flowers next to eat with the lettuce from the garden.

    Keep safe and well everyone .

    Fred & Gill