Fireworks, Hest Bank and Morecambe.

What a fantastic and busy time I've been having lately. Since arriving in Lancaster, I seem to be out and about more than I have for years, and I love it !! After spending the last few years dependant on family and friends as the only way of me getting out and about, this new sense of freedom I've got here, is brilliant. Trips into town are a regular occurrence, and Jim and I often go off on longer adventures as far a field as the batteries, on my scooter will let us.

Since I last wrote on my blog, we went to a firework display, went for a trundle along the canal to a place called Hest Bank which was beautiful, it was so good to see and smell the sea again, and as the weather was so nice we took a picnic with us. Then on Sunday as the weather was still nice, we decided to go to Morecambe. The ride there was really enjoyable along the cycle path, which is perfect for mobility scooters, we got to Morecambe in good time and only used up a tiny bit of battery power too.

We went for a wander around the indoor and outdoor market before we headed for the promenade. Then all of a sudden the battery lights started going down very alarmingly. Within 15 minutes I was left with only one bar left on the battery, which is the very lowest amount of power left. Of course I immediately started panicking, wondering how the hell we were going to get the 3 miles home. Jim checked all the battery connections to make sure nothing had come adrift or loose, but nothing was wrong. So we set off for home, with Jim insisting I wasn't to worry it was all part of the adventure ..... I didn't share his optimism though I'm afraid. We got a mile further on, and my one battery light started flashing, this means the battery is about to conk out. As you can imagine knowing that we had a further two miles to get home, I was pretty stressed out by this point. In his usual calm fashion Jim said don't worry, he'd get his daughter to come and pick me up and he'd bring his bike and the scooter the remaining way on his own !! I couldn't imagine how the heck he was going to manage that as my scooter isn't exactly the lightest of ones, even without me on it lol. But manage it he did, and got home about 3/4hrs after me.... and was greeted by a huge sigh of relief from me too !!!

Lots of photo's to share with you this time, some firework ones which I'm rather proud of, a couple of Faith, one of Jims grandkids that we looked after for the day as she had chicken pox and couldn't go to school. One of Hest Bank with the salt marsh at the forefront of the photo and lastly one of me on the jetty at Morecambe.

Birthday fun and busy days

A couple of weekends ago was my birthday, Jim came down from Lancashire and family and friends came up from the Midlands for 4 days. On my actual birthday we went up into the mountains and I actually managed to get to the bottom of a waterfall I've wanted to get close to ever since I moved to Wales almost 10 yrs ago. We started off on the Saturday night by all drinking rather a lot, and singing our heads off. We had a brilliant time, and the party went on till the early hours of Sunday morning. Martin had brought his laptop and a set of good speakers so I think I can safely say we made quite a lot of noise. It wasn't until the next morning, that I realised my elderly neighbour hadn't gone away to South Wales as we thought ....ooooops. The next day we went off go carting, the following day was another day at different go carting track followed by some fishing.I had the biggest catch of the day .... a supermarket wire basket, I was gutted I thought I'd caught a big fish !!! Jims met all but one of my kids now, and he's still with me, so they couldn't have scared him too much lol.

On the Tuesday every set off home, including Jim. However it was only going to be a short time apart for Jim and I, as I was travelling up to Lancaster again. This time I wanted to take my mobility scooter and also some of my glass, my art stuff and a load of other bits and bobs. So we decided the easiest way to do this was to hire van, which Jim's daughter Rachel kindly offered to drive for us. All went very smoothly and we made the trip in good time. The only hiccup was when Jim tried to install a wireless card in my pc, it just didn't want to have it, after a couple of hours, he finally got it to recognise his pc and all was well again.

Now I've got my scooter here, this means Jim and I can go out exploring, Lancaster being a city caters for scooters much better. So I got the chance to see the weir on the River Lune which is 2 mins away from Jim's house. What a beautiful spot, the amount of bird life was amazing, we also went into the city centre, and even though I normally don't like shopping, I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Today we went for a wander along the canal which is about 10 mins from Jim's house, yet again I really enjoyed myself, it's been years since I've been able to do this. The photo's this time are a mixture of my birthday, family and some of the things I've seen since I've been at Jim's.