Day 68 - we are home

Neither of us had a great nights sleep, I just wasn’t tired at bed time so took ages to go off to sleep. I had to have a quick tinkle in the night and came back to find Marla all curled up in a ball on my side of the bed - cheeky madam.

We got up at 6am, had breakfast, did the washing up, packed the van up and headed off at 8:30. We stopped off at the closest petrol station and then made our way to the shuttle check in. Google maps took us a strange way, lots of back roads before finally letting us join the motorway. Dave wasn’t too dirty, but after those roads he is absolutely filthy now!

Our shuttle was booked for 11:15, I love to be early so we arrived exactly 2 hours before to start the check in process. We headed over to the pet reception first and it was absolutely empty. We gave over Marla’s paperwork and we scanned her microchip and we were good to go. We then had to go and check in for the shuttle, we were offered a space on the 10:15 train for no extra cost so we took that.

We quickly popped into the terminal to spend some of our loose change, but we didn’t have much time now, so no time for duty free browsing. A quick wee for Marla and off we went to boarder controls, first the French then the UK. We were boarded by security who checked all our cupboards that are big enough for people to hide in, and our cargo box - we were given the call clear and off we went.

The rest was all quick and straightforward, before we knew it we were on the train. The phone signal was really good so I took the opportunity to call the vet to make an appointment for Marla as she has a poorly ear (nothing too serious). Then we were moving! We filled the time by making some lunch for later, and I did some crochet - and some squats for my challenge.

Back in the UK and it was surprisingly sunny! A straightforward and relatively quick drive home, considering the significant amount of roadworks with a 50 limit.

We got back home not long after midday - not bad going at all!

We’d decided not to empty the van today as we just couldn’t face it, we just were going to bring out the essentials.

We had not been home more than 5 minutes and I trod in some cat poop that was on our front lawn, camouflaged by all the leaves on the floor. Great… I’d somehow managed to get it smeared on my trouser leg too…. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ So I stripped down to my pants on the front door step and did the walk of shame into the house 😂

I hopped into the shower and Charlie did a quick bit of leaf blowing to ensure that we wouldn’t tread on anything else unpleasant.

I had a quick shower and then we took Marla off for a proper walk in her favourite place. This is when I realised I have a flat tyre on the car…. thankfully it’s a run flat so we got to where we wanted to be and got back again all ok. One more thing to fix tomorrow.

Back home and time to open all the post and check everything in the house is all good (thankfully I think all is ok!).

Time to take Marla to the vet (thankfully I was able to pump the tyre up so we could just use the car). A quick check over and it looks like she’s probably stuck her head somewhere she shouldn’t have and got a small infection in her ear from something like a bramble or thorn giving her a poke. Not the first time she’s got injured from sticking her head somewhere it doesn’t belong. She has been given some drops that will clear it all up soon.

We treated ourselves to an Indian takeaway tonight as we couldn’t face a supermarket shop this afternoon.

Marla has enjoyed having so many comfy spaces to have a snooze on.

It feels a bit odd to be home after 2 months away - in some ways it doesn’t feel like we’ve been away that long but it also feels very strange to have so much space to move around in, almost a bit surreal.Leia mais