Thought I'd take it easy today...

I'm tired, and my shoulders are aching after 6 days and around 1500 miles of driving, so I thought I'd have a nice easy day in the garden today.

So lad and I went off to buy sand and cement, which I've been mixing in batches all day as I build our pond. I think I might just go to sleep and til Monday morning now. I'm spent.

 

A bit of relaxing labouring then

1500 miles? 200 did me in for a day. Hope it was all worth it.

 

Sounds like you relax the same way that I do.

Val

 

I've miscalculated. 2 and half tanks of fuel at 440 miles per tank. Even my brain is tired.

More like 1100 miles.

After driving all round the south east, we've also been driving all round the north east too

 

That's still a lot, poor old Gotilda.

As long as you all had a good time

 

Gothilde/Gotilda is fine. She's been enjoying the drive as much as the rest of us. She normally only gets to tootle about short distances, she's in her element on the open road.

 

Thanks. It was ok. It was utter chaos though and when we arrived, they were turning cars back if people didn't have pre-booked tickets.

 

Armandii has a point. Shoulder pain from the 'physical exertion' of driving a car with power steering and an automatic gearbox...

I'm going to work on my shoulder muscles a bit I think

 

I was thinking it could be the 10 to 2 driving position I adopt, which was the only comfortable position in my last car. Big comfy Volvos enable you to rest your arms on your lap and steer with one thumb, which I do when I remember, but old habits and all that.

Of course it could also be that the weekend before, my dad asked me to dig over half of his allotment for him, and I didn't fancy spending two days doing it so I worked until I was physically unable to continue