On the 10th October Sue was due for a cataract operation at Salisbury Hospital. After all Sue’s preparation, a wait of 3 hours in the waiting room, preparation for the operation in theatre the machine to do the operation malfunctioned! Needless to say Sue was very upset it didn’t happen. The new date for the op is 1st November.
We had left some weeks free to help with Sue’s recovery, but now we had some time on our hands so decided to go away with the caravan to Chichester. Due to the short notice we couldn’t get onto any of our preferred sites, but found a privately run site which turned out to be OK. Believe it or not the weather we had was just about wall to wall sunshine. It was however a bit chilly (icy) on a couple of evenings.
We had a good pitch which was in the sun all day. We were close to the A27 which is busy day and night.
Enjoying the sunshine
| The camp/mobile home site with a few geese thrown in. | West Wittering beach |
| Bishops Palace Chichester | Bishop’s Palace Garden |
This is a formal garden with meandering paths and planted with mature specimen trees. The garden also includes an ornamental fish pond, herbaceous borders, annual bedding, shrub beds, a rockery and rose borders. The Garden has several areas of open grass and plenty of seats for relaxation.
| Sue in the Bishops Palace Garden | View of the Cathedral |
On the Monday we visited Uppark House which was not too far away. It is a fine late 17th Century house with many treasures. It is now owned by the National Trust. The fully restored mid-18th Century interior (following a devastating fire in 1989) houses many paintings, ceramics, textiles, furniture and the famous dolls' house. Extensive servants' rooms are shown as they were in 1874 when H.G. Wells' mother was housekeeper.
| Uppark House – spot Sue | The Dairy |
We did plenty of geocaches whilst in the area. Some of them took us to the beach and others through the countryside. One of the ones I enjoyed the most was an Earthcache (I haven’t enough time to explain, but can be found using Google). We had to find fossils of rays and sharks teeth on the beach at low tide. I asked a local person for help and she pointed me in the right direction. We found some fossils, but no teeth. The woman reappeared to show me a sharks tooth she had found previously.
| Old sea front property West Wittering | Rays tooth fossil |
Sharks tooth fossil
In a nearby geocache the cache owner had kindly put these fossils in so geocachers could see what they looked like. This tooth was very sharp!
| Medmerry Windmill an early 19th Century tower mill |
Selsey Lifeboat station |
Tony and Ellen don’t live too far away so they came over bearing gifts – a very nice quiche for lunch. As you can see the weather didn’t let us down. As I write this in Ringwood it is one week on and it has been raining all day!
| On the campsite terrace, waiting for the camera to ‘click’ hence the smiles | Filling in a geocaching log in Birdham |
| Chichester Marina | Returning home |
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