20.05 Day 3 . . . Doggy Ice Cream

Loup woke me with a small whine and I checked the time, at which point Tre woke and whispered to me ‘Is he awake do you think?’ On hearing Tre’s whisper the whines became instantly louder ‘He is now’ I replied.
Both of us climbed out of Rox and let Loup loose from his overnight cell. During the walk around the car park of the Spotted Dog and associated lanes, Tre suggested we get going and take Loup for a long walk on Ashdown Forest. It was at this point that I told her the time - it was 5.30am - Loup was still working in French time. The look on Tre’s face was a picture of disgust 😂
At 7am we were parked up at Ashdown Forest with Loup bustling to get on with his walk. We had a lovely sunny early morning walk amongst the bracken and long grasses - Kingstanding within site of our walk.
As the weather was so lovely and we had time to kill we decided to set up an ad hoc camp and brewed up a tea and had croissants for breakfast. We spent the next 4 and a bit hours in the sunshine, relaxing in our chairs and taking Loup on further mini walks - of which there were numerous. When the ice cream van arrived in the car park it was the icing on the cake. A couple of cornets for myself and Tre and a first proper Doggy Ice Cream tub for Loup. We don’t see them in France so he has to make do with very small amounts of ours. This however was all his and he enjoyed every single lick from the pot, almost dropping into a drugged like state in doing so.
After extending our stop for a further hour of sunshine, we packed up and for Haywards Heath in order to grab a few bits.
A quick stop at the dog chew stop revealed it to be shut and the Halifax bank had been closed so our main chores had been frustrated. After grabbing a couple of bits from other stores we decided enough was enough. We grabbed some other supplies from Sainsbury’s which were to take back to France with us and that was us done.
We had arranged to meet Daniel for the evening for a Thai in Lindfield and so drove and parked up. Lindfield was to be our overnight sleep spot as well.
The sun still out, we walked Loup in the park and generally enjoyed the weather.
After a slightly re-arranged 6.30pm meet up, we found the three of us tucking into Thai in the Stand Up Inn - the double red chilli warning on the jungle curry I should have paid more attention to 🌶️🌶️🥵
We had a brilliant catch up with Daniel and putting the world to rights. A walk back to Rox and a look at Daniel’s new car, followed by another walk for Loup finished the evening.
Daniel made his escape and we sorted ourselves for our next night in Rox. Loup was shattered from his Ashdown Forest adventures and was flat out before Tre and I climbed into bed.
Jungle curry and another two pints of Guinness was the soundtrack to our pre slumber.

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