Back down to Wiltshire

Woke up early and had another leisurely morning at Mum's. We had smoked haddock and poached egg for breakfast - Mum is now getting used to my new healthy eating regime - and we spent the morning chatting. She is clearly worried about her oven having broken and will need to get a specialist in to look at it. It may not be the fuse after all. After another light lunch of cold meat salad and an orange I set off for Louth to see David Kaye, the 82-years old author I am helping in his discussions with his publishers over a new book. I spent a fascinating hour and a half with him telling me stories about his travels throughout the British Isles (trips to Lundy, Scillies, Orkney and Shetland) and his early days as an archaeology teaching. He was really pleased with the book I gave him about The Blitz and in return gave me a lovely model of a Wolverhampton trolleybus as a thank-you for the article I wrote recently on the Wolverhampton and Walsall trolleybuses. I shall treasure his gift. I left Louth at around 3.20 p.m. and plodded along the A16 and A43 through the Fens and down to Northampton and Oxford arriving back home in Wiltshire at around 9.00 p.m. It rained for a good part of the journey and the onboard computer signalled that the tyre pressure in one of my tyres was low - thankfully not punctured. I filled up with air and fuel in Boston and, thankfully, all seems okay. I was glad to be home and it was a delight to see Mary opening the birthday and Christmas presents I had brought back with me from the family. Feeling really tired tonight after that long journey and went to bed around 11.30 p.m.