21.05 Day 4 . . . Old Friends

Lindfield we thought would be quiet when waking in the morning . . . we had forgotten about the numerous dog walkers using the car park before school runs and work, also the parents parking up to deliver their little darlings to school - as a result, manoeuvring from Rox in a semi state of undress took perfect timing to prevent being reported to the local authorities.
A walk around the park with Loup and then a whistle stop visit to the local bakery to get a bacon sandwich was all we needed to do before setting off. Bacon is a hard to come by in France and so I took the opportunity when it presented itself.
A quick drive to Haywards Heath for the second visit to the dog chew shop was next on the agenda. This time we were successful and also negotiated future supplies being posted to France for us. Loup was now stocked up with Deer, Boar, Biltong and Beef Tendons for the coming weeks back in France.
Now it was time to hot foot to go visit our very good friends Mary Berry & Paul Hollywood (or Lynne & Phil in real life). The traffic was its usual M25 pants heading to Cobham and concluded with a couple of road closures exactly where we needed to exit.
It was fantastic catching up with Paul & Mary and visiting for the first time their stonkingly lovely home (Gotta say that as he reads this). Loup made a brief visit inside but we extracted him before he destroyed anything. We went for a lovely pub lunch nearby and spent a good couple of hours chewing the fat. It wasn’t long though before we had to move on as we needed to drive to my parents for the evening. So mid afternoon we said our goodbyes with firm plans for Paul and Mary to visit us during the summer, if that ever arrives - and we headed off.
We then drove through even worse traffic and pouring rain to Bloxwich. On route Paul sent us a little video of Loup dragging me to their house, captured on the ring doorbell and a lovely photo of Mary who had obviously found our company far to much and had logged off once back at home.
After one brief stop we arrived at Bloxwich with my mum and dad. Loup made himself right at home as always and we settled in for what remained of the evening.
We called it a night about 11pm and after managing to finally settle Loup who wanted to carry on re-checking my parents house since his last visit - we finally got to sleep.
This week is flying!!

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