Day 43 - oh what a night

Not long after finishing writing yesterday’s update, a big lightning storm rolled in. It was pretty spectacular, and thankfully we couldn’t hear any thunder to go with it. That did not last….
At about 2:30am the biggest storm rolled in and it stayed for hours. Marla was absolutely terrified of all the thunder. It really ranged from far away to being right on top of us, and I’ve never seen that amount of lightning. We even had hail at one point, although the continual heavy rain made it hard to tell.

At around 3:30am I turned around to Charlie and said that I want to go home now please……it was awful.

To make matters worse, Charlie had very kindly agreed to swap sides of the bed with me. His side has more leg room and meant I could stretch all the way out - which I can’t quite do on my own side. So when we went to bed, I was looking forward to a good nights sleep!

Roll on 7:30 am and the Marla alarm went off again…. That was not enough sleep for either of us - but it was still raining so there was no chance of getting back into bed after taking her out. It even was still thundering a little but either Marla didn’t notice or she’d gotten used to it.

The rain has carried on all day, with only a few moments respite here and there. So we’ve got the dry robes out, and all our dog towels are now disgustingly wet….

We hunkered down for the rest of the morning, just popping out to do washing up and pick up a few bits from the on site shop.

Lunch was bread and cheese - a firm Van favourite and we opened a bottle of local cider to go with it. Unfortunately the cider was quite unpleasant and it ended up going down the sink.

When it looked like a slight lull in the rain this afternoon we went out and explored a couple of footpaths from site. We started out going in one direction but then the footpath led you into a field of cows, so we went the other way and ended up having a good stroll in the woods! It was definitely worth getting out there.

Dinner was pasta with a fresh walnut sauce and some green beans.

This evening has been hiding from the weather, doing more crochet, catching up on TV while we can (we won’t be able to stream anymore once our UK sim runs out of data at the end of the month).

Moving day tomorrow and we have a few stops planed on the way, an early alarm is set - so we’re going to have an early night now.Læs mere