Wednesday 31 October 2018

The Towers Prepares For Halloween

There has been no catching of breath chez Le Towers since we got home from Wells …….
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…… preparations for our annual bijoux Halloween party for The Little Miss and Young Master are in full swing for later this evening.
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Darrell has naturally been our self appointed party planner ………
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…… while Nigel and I, knowing our place, have been there for him to do his bidding …..
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……. leaving him free to prick …… or whatever it is he does to the prized sausages that he travelled over to Worcester to collect …….
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……. and approve of the select selection of spooky cakes he entrusted to Nigel to purchase.
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Happy Happy Halloween!
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Tuesday 30 October 2018

Farewell Wells

There were tears as we bid a found farewell to our Wells caravan …… not from Young Master Bertie, no they were from Nigel, what is he like?
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It was just the realisation that as he went into the caravan to double check it for the umpteenth time to make sure that we’d left nothing behind we would most likely be strangers to our beloved caravan holidays for at least another six months.
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We are already in the midst of the grips of autumn, Nigel had even found fallen real life walnuts on our site  …….. getting up in the dark in the mornings is already upon us and with the clock going back we will now have to embrace walking home in the dark too, something none of us is exactly relishing.
To help lift his mood I reminded the little fella that Halloween was next on our agenda …… he was in the car in a flash, pumpkins had to be carved!


Monday 29 October 2018

Jurassic Wells?

How many holiday parks do you know that not only has hot tubs on tap but also has it’s very own Jurassic Park Trail.
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Needless to say Young Master Bertie is most impressed ……….
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……. and no dinosaur (or Nigel for that matter) has remained unphotographed ……..
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….. from every possible angle and vantage point known to Neanderthal Man, bless him (Bertie not said Neanderthal man!)
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The only thing that could possible take the trail up into another league would be ……..
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…… perhaps the odd drainpipe or two, and to that end we will make sure it is an idea put forward, on The Young Masters behalf, when we complete the customer feedback form tomorrow when we sadly have to leave.  We are grilling our lions for that moment as we feel there may be tears!

Wednesday 24 October 2018

Our Bijoux Wells Caravan

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How many caravans have we shown you around over the years?
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This time you find us in a smaller caravan than we usually tend to book but lets say we are all very at home with bijoux.
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It’s got everything we need and to be honest we do have a tendency to spread ourselves and all our accoutrements around, so in Wells at least our disarray, especially having a small child in tow, is confined, if you know what I mean.
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So far we have only mislaid the Calpol, a spare loo roll, Darrell’s moisturiser and the Cocopops ……..
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…… but I’m sure they’ll turn up eventually.
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Some of the caravans come with hot tub included, had the young master not been with us, yes, we would have certainly been very tempted …..
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  …… the Somerset nights have proved to be very romantic in a red sky at night type of way ……..
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……. however, there is a bit of an autumnal  nip around The Mendips when the sun has gone down, and once settled in a simmering, bubbling tub, with perhaps a glass of Prosecco I don’t think any of us would relish the idea of leaping out, au naturel, to administer to a little voice calling “Uncle Nigel, Uncle Darrell, Uncle Monkey ……. I want a drink of water!”

Tuesday 23 October 2018

The Pleasures Of Longleat And Thoughts Of Castle Greysquirrel.

We, especially Nigel, enjoyed all the pleasures of our day at Longleat ………
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…… in particular being up close and personal with the giraffes
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….. and at one with the lions, (although they were asleep as we drove past), plus being able to see all the other wonderful  animals from the comfort of our car following the safari trail ….. well, all that is except for the monkeys, we had to give their enclosure a wide berth as Darrell has a huge phobia of being surrounded by monkeys in a any car since watching The Omen. Bertie, to be honest was not really that impressed, in fact it’s pretty safe to say he is probably not a budding David Attenborough in the making …….
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……. although he was suitably impressed enough by the giant lion statue outside the house to take a picture or two.
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No, it was the drainpipes on walls of the great house and the fountains that caught his interest ……. more plumbing I suppose!
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The fountains were very impressive, but Darrell said that he thought that the blue coloured water was a tad on the tacky side for his tastes, but each to his Lordships own.
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Nigel was non committal, a fountain, is a fountain, is a fountain he declared.
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No photographs are allowed to be taken in the house itself but it was suitably impressive, each room could easily have  housed The Towers several times over with Nigel musing that their bill for Pledge to help keep the dust down must be astronomical and that their feather dusters must have a mahooooosive handle to reach all the high ceilings, what is he like?
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The gardens were romantic and we all said that we missed the old garden at Castle Greysquirrel because trimming of the occasional bush can be quite therapeutic and relaxing in a topiary sort of way.
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….. sadly, back at The Towers we have “a man that does” to trim all our bushes now, usually every other week, it’s just not the same as trimming your own.

Monday 22 October 2018

Through Bertie We Discover The Beauty In The Drainpipes Of Wells

We are having the most wonderful time in Wells having Young Master Bertie all to ourselves and he is proving to be very much his Uncle Nigel’s nephew in his diverse interests and insatiable curiosity.
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The Bishops Moat is stunningly beautiful, however said beauty wasn’t what captured Young Master Bertie’s imagination as much as …….
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…… it’s many awe inspiring drainpipes!
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We have given the young master Andy’s (Grandy-Andy in heaven) old camera having kept it for such a special occasion …….
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……. and it has to be said that he has taken to this new exciting tool/toy like to a duck to water.
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……… so logically …… is it the historic vistas and beautiful Somerset views that have taken the young master’s interest and been captured for posterity?
IMG_20181006_175138 Erm ……. no …… it’s the drainpipes, be they plastic or metal! Whenever we are out and about, they are what young Bertie points out to us to oooooo and ahhhhh at, he even taps and inspects them sagely just like Grandy-Andy was apt to do.  What is he like?
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Still David Bailey had to start somewhere ……….
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……. and he certainly didn’t do a bad job in snapping Nigel from what he says is his best angle!
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Happy, happy days!