Followed by a morning in the rain and a visit to the Lego store.

Time to leave London and head home. Perhaps via a bookshop…..

But now we have two hours on the train with a group of 4 pretend posh muppets getting slowly drunk and talking about the most inane and boring tripe going (how to squeeze whiteheads before they become blackheads, how my dog likes to chew things, Gerald remember Gerald, I have to get my hairdresser to come out I used to go to west row but my water is rubbish, we have a barn, blah blah blah).

It’s almost 2 years since we moved into the “Field with a House” and boy have we done a lot to it. This week managed to get the patio and field stairs replaced, remembering of course that the previous owners actually had the patio laid upside down (no idea why), all of the steps were starting to crack and tons of awful pea gravel.

So weeks of disruption and it’s done, the right way up

The before

The Inbetween

And The After

Oh and we’ve also chopped down the bush at the top and put a fence in.

And that’s that for year 2!

We now almost have a finished patio and the stairs have now gone in preparation of their replacement. The downside, they have taken the old steps away and not started the new ones just at the point the heavens are gonna open.

Get ready for the new waterfall and swimming pool!

We spent the last night HERE

So this is us in Boulder City, 30 miles from the airport for the return tomorrow (boo) and the flight is already showing as delayed. We’ve done a full circuit round Arizona, touching Nevada, New Mexico and California, awesome.

So now a womble round Boulder and time for grub

Standing on the Corner in Winslow Arizona, right HERE

A long old drive today from Sedona up 6,500ft across to Winslow for us Route66 addicts and then across to Williams, via 2 Harley stores for more T-shirts

Spectacular View

And one of the many T-Shirts (sad or what)

And now a couple nights in Williams to chillax before we have to think about heading home.

And these were from 2017 when we had young Kevin in tow (wish you were HERE eh Kev?)

And guess what young Kev, the worlds best guitarist and singist is still at the Best Western and he remembers you! (He asked Mrs Fogg where her daughter was😄)

and for tea tonight, let’s try the 16oz Porterhouse steak each, oh yes!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

So finally a kick back and chill round the fire pit

As a foot note, I have a fascination with toilets around the world, after We were bought a book many years ago about weird and wacky ones from around the world, so I am always on the lookout for the strange and unusual, which is why this one in Winslow made me smile. Some gents urinals have an “aim here” target painted into them (usually a fly), which is positioned to limit the amount of splash back encountered, so I quite like the inventive approach by this little place, just aim for the ball!