Friday awake and focused, this is a travel day. So it means if I am going to train today I need to straight away. I am in the garage double quick to do half an hour on the rower. The intention is to be gentle however I still manage 7 kilometres, which is not bad.
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I shower and check my packing before taking the car to the garage to check tyres and fuel. Then it was a trip to the garden centre to get food to take on the trip. Once provided for we have lunch and I take my drugs. By one thirty we are ready to roll with everything packed and ready. Just before we leave my eldest daughter returns from circus school and I do the speech about not letting anyone in, that we have not ordered anything and no one is expected to be doing anything for us. Then we are off. A couple of hours driving and we arrive at Artisant Cottage in Cinderford. It is a small but quirky cottage which we like straight away.
We are met by the owner who is very cheery and welcoming. We sit on the patio and recover from the journey with a coffee and notice one of the quirky adornments to the patio.
Having settled in we go for a walk in Cinderford. It is a strange town laying between one that is dying like so many old mining towns but also showing signs of recovery in its housing market, certainly not short of take away food places. We walk up the High Street towards the centre of town where with a quick diversion behind Lidl we find the house that my youngest and her partner are buying. We give it the once over from the outside and walk round the block to look at its garage and parking space. Tomorrow we will get to look inside when we met my daughter to have another house viewing. We return to the cottage and cook lasagne and relax over coffee before watching a couple of programmes on the lap top. My partner goes to bed and I write the blog. I am curious to see how I sleep in this strange place and what dreams I might have.
