Milo's Fans!! October 17

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October has been a month of opportunities and experiences.

To start, raining for the London Marathon is progressing nicely, I am pleased to share at this point I am now running 14 miles and looking to push another mile on Sundays. Fund raising is slowly gathering pace with a number of activities planned, please do go to my ‘Just Giving’ page to make a donation if you can, link is above.

 An amazing moment unravelled one Friday evening in the Cherry Tree and I was lucky enough to watch the reactions between Milo and his new found fan base! Different music was being selected on the pub tablet by different people and Milo was asked to put something on. He put on chill music from his music channel called ‘pitterpatter’ (link below)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKrasU1qR9l0DJ1tQ98uGLA

Two young European women were standing next to us and recognised the artist, Milo picked up on their recognition with glee and a conversation entailed where the women shared they were keen listeners of ‘Pitterpatter’. Milo’s face shone with delight and he carried the conversation excitedly for several more moments before he pronounced he was ‘Pitterpatter’. The women were overwhelmed and in complete awe of Milo. They were astounded in a back of beyond pub where they had no phone service they were having a pint in the presence of a ‘celebrity’, their words! Lots of jolly conversation pursued and selfies with Milo the centre of the attention, quite a new experience for him – he loved it.

The most major event that has taken place for us is, we are in the processes of buying a house for us to live in (not buy to let as we initially thought). The house is a brand new build, three bed detached and energy efficient in Hingham. 

We are thrilled to find such a good looking, well thought layout home, hope you agree from the plans I have shared? After being adrift from the rat race for a while we feel like we are climbing back on board again and finding ourselves at the mercy of other agencies decision making in order to move on in our lives, i.e. applying for a mortgage. These feelings have been quite alien to us for these past three years and it has been a welcome relief, at this moment in time we are approaching our house purchase in equally balanced excitement and hair-raising fear! It is looking like we will have the keys just before Christmas but we plan to move in when all furniture is in place so will be after Christmas. A remarkable thought is Dylan has spent almost half his life in the caravan consequently he has reservations in the thought of leaving the field, Milo has no reservations; he can’t wait to shut a door!

My birthday was a treat celebrated in the middle of the week, I came home for and then back to work the morning after. After taking Dylan to school, Jerry Milo and I went to the cinema via breakfast. It felt like a sneaky treat on a late Wednesday morning, expecting to be in an empty theatre which was actually quite busy. We ended up watching ‘Kingsmen 2’, a brilliantly light-hearted spoof of Bond movies, exciting and action packed, had me on the edge of my seat being quite exhausted by the end. In the early evening we wined and dined altogether in a local Moroccan restaurant, for us was quite different with tagine dishes accompanied with couscous followed by sticky sweet puddings, a very nice Moroccan wine to wash down our scrumptious meal. Sometime ago I had booked a birthday treat in a trip to Brighton for ‘Legend Live’ concert. Thoroughly enjoyed all four acts

•  Hot Chocolate sound was as groovy as they ever were losing a bit of the sex-appeal without Errol although the replacement had an identical voice
• David Essex continued to be the cheeky, wide boy of our youth as he stood on stage bellowing out tunes at 70yrs, he was fantastic.
•  The Osmond’s were Merrill, Jay and Jimmy. I thoroughly enjoyed watching three old codgers doing appropriate old codger dancing opened with 'Crazy Horses'.and they were really good. I run to ‘The Osmonds Ultimate Collection’ and all the songs that were sung was from this album , I knew all the words!
• Suzi Quatro leapt around the stage with her oversized guitar in leather, straight from the 70ies singing all her hits. Suzi really enthused the audience great fun to watch.

Our weekend in Brighton came to an end with an experience on the British Airways I360, the vertical pier, across a brilliant bright clear Brighton coastline.  Jerry coped well hanging onto the railings and not looking down from inside the capsule, he is not good on heights. Then home to homemade birthday cake, lovely time.

I had been caught up in the outskirts of an accident at the beginning of the year, when a lorry transporter tipped its load across the dual carriageway of the A11 as I was passing. The lorry driver pleaded not guilty so the case went to magistrates’ court and I was one of three people called as a witness. It was once the witnesses were all sitting in the room being instructed on what to expect did the lorry driver then change his plea to guilty which changed the context of court process. The Magistrates allowed us to watch sentencing, acknowledging us at the beginning of the process expressing the importance of the witness in having a presence in court in enabling the justice process. I found the experience upsetting as the lorry driver is a decent man who made an error in a split second which has had an enormous impact on his family’s lives even before he came to court, then he had to deal with his punishment. His error was not due to speeding or distraction of his phone, I was relieved to hear that but felt for him!

October concluded with a day trip to Dover where I was introduced to Ivy Mays' grave in a quant cemetery meadow, an emotionally moving experience and one I was grateful to be part of. It made Ivy May a real person seeing her name on the gravestone, a joy to plant the bulbs for her children and small colourful plant for her grandchildren in UK and Aus. Mum chatted about life in Dover as we visited Kearsney Ave, home of Ivy Mays parents hence mums grandparents, and viewed all those small yet significant places of Mum and her sisters childhood. Even went to the bakery shop and asked for ‘traffic light biscuits’ not sold now but reflected upon with the saleslady who also ate these biscuits from the same bakery as a child too. A lovely sobering day listening to mums reflection of her childhood, lucky to have had the time with her.

Halloween seems to be a necessary event in our home led by Dylan’s need to celebrate so we go  over the top decorating his space with pumpkin carving and costume, always a sweetie treasure hunt. The most amusing part of Halloween is when Dylan hides sweets for his elder brother then we watch our 18yrs son search for his Halloween sweets, biggest belly laughs ever.

Hope you have enjoyed my October adventures if you feel like sharing your thoughts with me then reply on the covering email if you are not able to leave a comment on the blog. I will put any comments on the blog myself for you.