21st September

A picture from our visit to Clivedon, this is "The Fountain of Love" which was one of the first features that we came upon. Ursula is posing for me!

Back at home, and getting back to normality. Grass to be cut, apples to pick up, tomatoes to pick...all the usual garden chores.

An interesting e-mail from a friend who had been delighted with the Angmering web site. Had a look and found it good too. Our local one is very interesting and useful. Let's say the Angmering one is pretty professional. I left a message in the Angmering site guest book so we will see whether there will be a reply.

Horticultural Club Jolly to Chesterfield

Off for a 3 night stand to Chesterfield. Visited Clivedon en route. Our room overlooked a motorway. The noise was very bad at times. Opening the windows to get the tempersture down brought in the noise. There was an adjacent disco which ran through the night. We should have asked for a room change but were too polite to embarrass the tour organiser, who is a friend of ours.

The restaurant menu in the room was excellent, at table we had a different one, a typical charabanc special. Water for whisky appeared in pint tumblers. There was a resident idiot who declaimed in the bar. He liked to wear his hat all times.

There were many conference rooms, a ballroom even a swimming pool. But sadly the hotel wifi worked for windows OS but not for linux. Happily Chesterfield Station wifi is accessible from the hotel and worked well, so the day was saved.

The lift is probably 1920 vintage but does function quite satisfactorily.

Our room had a communicating door to the next one, on our last night we had what might have been a honeymoon couple in residence. There was a wedding reception at the hotel. We were somewhat embarrassed, it added to the motorway noise and the disco noise and sleep was in short supply.