Monday evening, 15-04-24

Er - I mean Tuesday morning!  Morning, everyone, apologies for last night; I was very weary and couldn't string together more than a couple of words at a time!  After a good night's sleep, things are looking much brighter.

Well, I had no idea you were such a set of poetic geniuses (geneii??).  I will string all your creations together and post the resulting ode this evening.  

My effort to this was:

How nice to be a ladybird,
Basking in the sun.
Glancing here, glancing there,
Just watch those aphids run!
. . . which is very like one of yours - Cherie's I think.  and:

How nice to be a ladybird
Basking in the sun.
Along comes Mrs Ladybird . . .
We're going to have some fun - woo hoo!

Well, I'm here although the journey wasn't entirely trouble free.  For a start, as I got into the car to start off, the heavens opened and we had a right dramatic hail shower.  It was more than a bit noisy.  Then the sat nav, which usually readjusts itself to my route after a few attempts to get me to go the way it wants me to go - which is the M11, joining at Bishops Stortford via the most complicated series of roundabouts I have ever had the bad luck to get confused on, because of Stansted airport and all the hotels that have sprung up there since they took a delightful little place and turned it into a monster (sorry, end of rant) - anyway, the sat nav refused to re-calculate and eventually I turned it off and relied on memory to get through Braintree and it was fine.

Then I took a wrong turning in Bury St Edmunds which was entirely my fault but I managed to spot a helpful signpost, got onto the B1106 and it was plain sailing after that.

And finally - it could only happen to me - I got myself 'lost' in the Center Parcs car park.  To be fair, lost isn't the right word but after registration, I turned the wrong way and ended up in the car park rather than on the road leading to the Lakeside Hotel.  And the signing wasn't great - I wasn't the only one looking confused and going round and round like that teddy bear in the garden!!
The positive is that, after unloading, I managed to park the car somewhere even I won't forget.  It is, after all, a VERY big car park!

Anyway, eventually I got settled in and unpacked.  The new header photo is the view from my bedroom window and this was what wandered across the grass when I happened to have camera still in hand.

Once unpacked, I wandered into the village.  I had intended to have a swim but I was so tired I just went to the booking desk to get my gym pass number and find out where it was and how the pass works.  Having done that, I headed back slowly and settled comfortably in for the evening.

On to today and I'm not rushing at anything,  I might wander down to the lake before breakfast, perhaps with a coffee in my flask, then come back for breakfast, go for a swim, have lunch, walk across to the Spa where the gym is, give that a go and then chill for the evening.  Yes, that sounds very pleasant and I do need some serious exercise to counter the amount I've scoffed over the weekend.   I'm feeling it in a certain sluggishness and an ache across the shoulders so some activity will sort that out.

I'll try to take some photos but there are a lot of people here and one does have to be careful.  See you again either this evening or, maybe, tomorrow morning, seeing as I have no morning classes this week and the pool doesn't open until ten.
Have a great day everyone and, again, thank you for your poetic efforts.  😉