News – Page 8 – The Moreton Pinkney Picayune

6 July 2025

Welcome back! I wasn’t sure I would have time to get this week’s edition out on time so, what you have here is a very brief summary of our campervan trip to Wales. We had a great few days but actually ended up coming home a day early. On Friday evening we looked at the weather forecast for Saturday to see a forecast of unrelenting rain in the morning. Not much fun packing up a tent in the pouring rain so we decided to set out for home on Friday afternoon instead.

29 June 2025

Phew! A few moments to rest after the exertions of the last few weeks and a brief pause before upcoming excitements.

22 June 2025

Scorcio! A simple and extraordinarily accurate description of what it’s been like here over the past week. Scorcio!

15 June 2025

You close your eyes for a moment and another week streaks by! What are the chances of that?

8 June 2025

Whew! A bit of time to pause for breath and take stock. Not for long, though.

The two gardening expositions we had last weekend went exceedingly well. The first was the village “Summer Garden Competition” on Saturday and then we had the Open Gardens on Sunday to raise some money for a couple of local charities.

1 June 2025

Sorry (again and again and again and . . .). If anything, this week has been busier than either of the previous two. It seems like we’ve been busier than a one-armed wallpaper hanger, as my brother Steph said once upon a time. We’ve thoroughly enjoyed our all-too-brief visit with our good friend Miles and his wife, Kathryn, we’ve been frantically preparing for the village garden competition (yesterday) and for the Open Gardens (later today). Hopefully, it will stay (mostly) dry and perhaps we could enjoy a little bit less wind than we’ve had the last few days? Oh, and we also celebrated Penny’s and Jessie’s birthdays on Wednesday and we’ve welcomed Penny’s sister Judi who arrived from Toronto on Friday. Whew!

25 May 2025

Sorry (again). Those of you who care will undoubtedly feel short-changed (again). We’ve been very busy following our return from Cumbria – we have Open Gardens in a week’s time but, more importantly, we had to prepare for our upcoming visit from our very good friend Miles and his wife who arrived yesterday. So, this edition will be mercifully short and hopefully somewhat succinct.

18 May 2025

Sorry. I forgot to say that we will be away this weekend – we’re visiting our lovely former neighbours who are now living in the Lake District. So, no News today! I am putting this together on Wednesday, before we leave. Fortunately, we have much of our copy ready for (repeat) publication – we’ll steal the last bit of our Polarsteps SE Asia travel log to fill the gaps.

11 May 2025

We had a lazy start to the day. Jessie’s scrambled eggs are getting better and better so a leisurely breakfast was followed by an equally leisurely outing to the Nha Trang Oceanography Museum and Aquarium.

4 May 2025

The next stage of our adventure is another travel day, this time from Đà Lạt to Nha Trang back on the coast, a three-hour ride in a 12-seater minibus – plenty of room to stretch out and snore.