Moving Day (Part 1)
The day we were dreading has finally arrived. delta is leaving home (and so are gamma and gamma-p for a second time!). My study is a mess filled with all of gamma's stuff. All of delta's stuff is packed and is upstairs. We start the day by moving all of his stuff into the kitchen. Whilst the wife and gamma go into town for a last 'mum and son' thing, I am left to load the car. It just about fits in the wife's car (there is no way it would fit into mine).
Help arrives for gamma-p and they take the first load into their car, and leave.
We leave a little latter leaving just gamma all on his own waiting for grumps to come and help him move another car load of stuff.
We left around 12:30 ish, and followed the sat nav all the way. The M25 was slow as normal, especially around the M3 and M4 junctions. The sat nav (let's call her 'evil gretta') did not care about the traffic conditions too much, and by the time we got to the M5 we got stuck in a very slow queue. It seems that there had been a major crash earlier in the day and the road was shut north bound. Apart from the queue joining this was not a huge problem, and once we got onto the M5 things went well.
T rang us during this phase to make sure we hadn't got caught up in the accident.
Of course it is a long trip from Ashford to Exeter, so it made sense (to me) to add on 20 ish more miles and book the hotel in Okenhampton. Of all the things that happened today, this was my better decision. The hotel is actually rather nice, I booked the 'executive suite' and it is great, a nice large bed, plus 2 single beds, a sofa and a TV. Tea and Biscuits, and all for under £100. Really great value. We were all a bit tired by the time we got to the hotel.
We went downstairs for a meal. I tried to talk everyone into going for a curry, but after the long day it didn't seem like that we going to work. We went downstairs and it was very busy, all the tables were full and people were waiting to find a seat. We sat near the bar and got the view of a pillar, I ordered drinks via the app.
After much waiting and searching we finally got a table near a hen party (which had the largest blow-up Willie I have ever seen).
When I went to order the food, there was a crowd of young people, one of them knocked over their glass and incredibly it bounced on the hard concrete floor, less incredible was his ability to catch the glass on the way back up, and he missed. It is once of these events that if you were to see him drop it, bounce, and catch it, it would be awesome, but it was not to be. A loud smash and one less glass.
We all had the same (Empire State Burger), and another drink. As each meal comes with a drink i ended up having to have 2 more beers (I told R that one was for him, but as he is in Ashford I would have to drink it for him).
We retired back to the room, put on PJ and got ready for bed. My table lamp had a flexible cable which allowed me to aim it directly in gamma's face, to which he replied "you cock" and proceeded to aim his two lamps at my face.
And then to sleep....
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