Following our long weekend off in Penzance, I had the following weekend extended-off type thing too. There was only one place to go. And that was to get the Monkey off Hilda's nephew's back. So we headed to the vets...
The Aberdeen WHITE-WINGED SCOTER had been seen on a fairly regular basis, but only at weekends, but we realised this was probably only when anyone was looking for it.
We decided to head up on Friday 11th August, give it a go and if necessary, stay overnight and look again on the Saturday. We knew there were rooms at the Travelodge/Premier Inn for £35.
This would be the 4th attempt Hilda's nephew had made for the WWS. The first, in 2011 when it was first seen was bizarre to say the least. Here is what I wrote about it at the time -
"I walked
out of the house at 01-50hrs and received a text from CJW. He had
arranged for someone to come round and pick his dog up as we were probably
going to be out all day. However, the person had not turned up. CJW was
walking up and down the street looking for anyone to who could help, but, not
surprisingly, there was no one about. Reluctantly, having waited to see if the
dog sitter turned up, at 02-30hrs we had to set off without CJW. "
He also missed it twice last year, and so we needed to break the cycle and get this bird in the hat. The trio of Shirley, Hilda's nephew and The Stalker set off at 2am or 3am, I can't honestly remember. But we set off at a ridiculously early hour with Hilda's nephew driving.
After 3hrs, he put his flaming music on again, including this song which I think is the worst song ever written in the history of popular music. See if you can listen to all of this without turning it off. There's a free seat and all expenses paid trip courtesy of the Clayheads the next time we go to Rothwell for those who manage it!! So six mins and 29 secs of this turgid monotonous tripe. Good luck.
No point carrying on with the blog now cos everyone has gone.
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