Where's Bertie? He's unpacked and patiently awaiting his next outing. It's currently undecided who is coming with us next week (Bertie or Erica) so they're currently giving each other dirty looks with the odd derogatory jibe being thrown between them.
Weather: Dry and calm until about 2 minutes before we decamped, whereupon it rained all the way home. Nicely timed!
There's not much to report from today. In view of the weather forecast and the need to be off our pitch by noon, there wasn't leisure for a lie-in, so it was all quiet (indeed, the Severn Trent car park adjacent to the campsite was still locked) as we set out for another lap of Carsington Water, this time at a run.
Because it's more beneficial for our current purposes to run/walk, we both felt like it's been ages since we'd last just run for several miles. So, this morning we set out with the intention of doing just that ... and that's exactly what we did - even up the steepest of the inclines on the east side of the water.
We were back at Bertie in plenty of time to stretch, wash, change, have breakfast, have coffee with a crossword, pack away, use the service point and be away well before the latest departure time (I've frequently timed it to drive off site on the dot of noon (I do like to get my money's worth!)).
It was a good and relaxing couple of days, into which we could undoubtedly have crammed a lot more, but then that's not really our style. We can always go back another time to do more in the area, and I'd happily do a few more laps of the reservoir in the future too.
Now, to decide whether it's Erica or Bertie to come with us next week. Do we go for Erica's agility or Bertie's extra comfort (with the side consideration of which one gets to have the extra mileage added to their odometer, considering that Erica's sailing a bit close to the wind; when we insured her last August our annual mileage calculation assumed (erroneously, as it turned out) that we would be spending several months abroad over winter in Bertie)?
(As a slight aside, for the record: Bertie's thermometer was showing an outside temperature of 11 degrees all the way home. This may be acceptable if it was just the effect of a transient weather system, however, it's nearly June and we've still only had two notably warm days this year. Otherwise it's been decidedly cool. Surely it's time for some warmth?)
I thought I made a comment here last night. - must have been dreaming. I wondered if the there is much difference between fuel costs for E and B?
ReplyDeleteOur long-term average for Bertie is 30.6mpg. We haven't had Erica long enough to have a meaningful average yet (and the nature of the journeys we've been doing during lockdown are not representative of normality) but we seem to be getting around 39mpg out of her.
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