Town of Stratham

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- Aug 29, 2017, 12:07 PM
- ⛅ 19 °C
- Altitude: 33 m
- United States New Hampshire Stratham 43.006168, -70.91144643°0’22” N 70°54’41” W
Day 25
Day 25
August 29, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Didn't wake up properly till 9am.

Pottered and did some shopping. More chatting.

Had sandwich for lunch then out to Portsmouth No sun today and a little bit chilly near the sea. Nice town - has grown and is more commercialised. Lots of bars and restaurants but all pretty quiet. Looked at Strawberry Bank but $20 each to get in and it looked really quiet so we didn't bother. Had drive along the coast. Very pretty and some beautiful houses.

Stopped at Lowe's shop to look for small garden table, yard brush, pan scourers and plastic wine glasses. Success in all but the glasses. Home 4.30 and made cottage pie for tea.

Ally struggling with some aspects of the new house - water is awful and needs special filtering, need treatment to disperse supposedly dangerous radon gas. Garden is a wilderness - much work to do but location is good.

Had beer outside watching and listening to humming bird. Lovely.

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- Sep 1, 2017, 9:54 AM
- ☀️ 13 °C
- Altitude: 33 m
- United States New Hampshire Stratham 43.006207, -70.91149143°0’22” N 70°54’41” W
Day 28
Day 28
September 1, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
Up 8ish to help tidy up. Sunny day.

Pulled up weeds & swept by pool. Looks much better.

Andy played a bit of footie with Charlie - he's bored poor lad. This is Labor Day weekend so he is off school today and Monday.

Did some washing, checked in for tomorrow and sorted clothes.

Left over lasagne for lunch then walk round local area. Enormous houses (some well kept and some not), trees and driveways. Everything here is on such a big scale - rooms, cookers, fridges, garages, cars, basements, gardens and everything is full of STUFF. The size of everything just says 'work' to us but it's just a way of life here. No pavement to walk on and quite a few cars so not really pleasant to walk.

Home 4ish.

Out to Exeter 6ish. UFO festival this weekend and a few examples on show!! Called at beer place but very small and didn't really appeal. Went to Margaritas Mexican. Nice food & drink and finished with deep fried icecream, Mexican hat and birthday song from staff. $100ish. Very pleasant.

Home 8.30. Sat out by Charlie's fire pit. Surprisingly cold. Had couple of glasses of wine & nice chat. Really lovely evening.

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- Sep 2, 2017, 7:45 AM
- ☀️ 9 °C
- Altitude: 33 m
- United States New Hampshire Stratham 43.006245, -70.91149943°0’22” N 70°54’41” W
Day 29
Day 29
September 2, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 9 °C
Awake early and up 8ish. John made bacon & eggs then we packed up and left them 10ish.

Filled car and got back to airport with no trouble. Sparkles on my t shirt set off sensors so I had additional checks.

Had coffee & cake then flight 1pm to Philadelphia.

Quite a bumpy flight but only about an hour so no problem.

Landed to torrential rain. Totally uneventful journey to Marriot - $35. We're on 22nd floor but gloomy view of grey skies! Shock to the system after the wonderful weather we've had most of the time.

Nice big room, cup of tea with awful powder milk then out to find Irish Bar McGillins - supposedly oldest in town.
Traffic busy, lots of grumpy drivers and puddles. Couldn't find pub so went in Fergie's Irish Bar. Diddly diddly band playing. Had beers $9.50 for two. Found McG but heaving and loud but still only 5pm ish so didn't stay. Went to The Bar - almost empty but was a bar and cheap and dry. $9. Then to Finn McCoos - sat at bar. $10 for 2 x 22oz beers (compared to 16oz before). Had shepherds pie and fish & chips. Perfectly ok and hit the spot on this cold & wet night. This rain is from Hurricane Harvey which has caused huge devastation in Texas. Shouldn't complain really.

Went to 7/11 for milk, biscuits and wine. Don't sell wine!! Trudged round a bit and eventually found booze shop. Bought $10 wine then home 7.30ish. In bed to get warm by 8pm. Ate biscuits and drank wine watching 50 Shades of Grey. Rubbish film!

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- Aug 31, 2017, 10:50 AM
- ⛅ 21 °C
- Altitude: 33 m
- United States New Hampshire Stratham 43.006248, -70.9114343°0’22” N 70°54’41” W
Day 27
Day 27
August 31, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Andy's 60th birthday. Phones started pinging birthday wishes from 4am!

Opened cards (except mine! Don't know where it is!). Ally included a cheque in her card to pay parking fine - present nobody else can give. Very amusing. I got him WMM shirt and hat and hat for Tony too.

Andy went for run then we set off for Newburyport. Lovely seaside town with big shipbuilding history. Had a walk about then delicious corned beef hash for lunch.

Had boat trip for just the two of us with Cap'n Bob. Very good and interesting. Amazing houses on the Merrimack river.

Back to car 3.30 and home via wine shop to buy Sebastiani wine, beer and small outside table.

All sorted and back 5pm.

Had very strong beer watered down with lemonade then Davey & Susie arrived but left the lobsters behind so she had to no back for them!

Had nibbles then huge amount of lobster. Very, very messy! Lots of wine and chat, birthday cake and fizz.

Told them our news and they will try to come.

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- Aug 30, 2017, 3:40 PM
- ☀️ 22 °C
- Altitude: 41 m
- United States New Hampshire Stratham 43.006371, -70.91146143°0’23” N 70°54’41” W
Day 26
Day 26
August 30, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Up 8ish. Tea & toast and out to Manchester by the Sea with Ally. About an hour drive. More road works but did fine. Parked for an hour and walk around. Started very cloudy and had been raining but sun soon came out. Very pretty town.

Went looking for replacement hat and in one shop, lady told us she has been to Manchester and experienced beans on toast in Warrington! She told us where to buy hat so we found quite easily. Also bought fridge magnet.

Had quick drive around then to Singing Beach. Looked beautiful in the sunshine but they were charging for carpark and to get on the beach so we didn't bother. There was hardly anyone around except the money collectors! Parked on the road on 2 hour limit then went for lunch.
Went to Cala and had haddock sandwich/club/pizza - all very nice then headed back to the car. Got $35 ticket for pointing in the wrong direction. Sickening!

Drove home via liquor store looking for John's current favourite wine Sebastiani but they didn't have it.

Shopped at Hannafords then home 2.30. Had tea and cake brought by friendly neighbour this morning.

Made big lasagne for tea then sat and had beer outside.

Andy asked about warm spot in kitchen ceiling John most interested in investigating! Later discovered permanently heated pads - fire hazard.

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