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Brighton Day 0 the epic drive down.
Aug. 10th, 2021 10:47 amMaybe Arachnia wasn't the best choice for a long distance drive to London, but it's my lovely new car and I wanted to show her off!
The upside is my car is a lot fun to drive. The downside is Flickums isn't insured to drive. 270 miles is quite a journey when I'm doing all the driving. At least it's motorways nearly all the way. Shame about traffic. Still wasn't too bad. Wish the weather was less changeable though. Sunny one minute, so I took the roof down. 5 minutes later it was pouring with rain.
Hermione, the know-it-all Satnav insisted we couldn't take the A23. I was sure I knew better. There's no way it could be so congested that the back streets of Sussex. Turns out the A23 was completely closed. Hermione sounded particularly smug when she told me to take the next exit. Grudgingly I took the exit. Diversion sign said go one way. Satnav said go the other. Decided to trust Hermione this time. She took us to a closed road.
Still, arrived eventually. Saw parents for the first time in nearly 2 years! Fridge was making a buzzing noise.
Day 1 Fridge had stopped buzzing.
Went to a small Comic con in Sussex. Flick's idea. An artist she likes was there. Actually a decent drive from where my parents live but this was a nice drive around Sussex country roads.
Went to the con. Flick saw the person she wanted to see. We bought more prints than we really should have but the guy was delightfully nerdy.
Flick wanted me to take her up Devil's Dyke, so I did.
Devil's Dyke is a valley with a nice view, and a pub at the top. We had a rather too heavy lunch there, before returning heading to my favourite place in all of Sussex - Middle Farm. Home of the greatest Cider collection in the world! Seriously - there's a shop with over 100 barrels of cider and perry from across the country. Don't think you'll see that anywhere else. Even most Cider festivals are smaller.
Returned home to be fed a Roast Beast by my dad.
Also discovered that the fridge had stopped buzzing because it had packed up. Cue a panicked phone call to my brother to store some food there, and transferring the stuff from the freezer to the spare freezer they have in the garage. My dad's Tetris skills proved useful as we squeezed everything in there.
The upside is my car is a lot fun to drive. The downside is Flickums isn't insured to drive. 270 miles is quite a journey when I'm doing all the driving. At least it's motorways nearly all the way. Shame about traffic. Still wasn't too bad. Wish the weather was less changeable though. Sunny one minute, so I took the roof down. 5 minutes later it was pouring with rain.
Hermione, the know-it-all Satnav insisted we couldn't take the A23. I was sure I knew better. There's no way it could be so congested that the back streets of Sussex. Turns out the A23 was completely closed. Hermione sounded particularly smug when she told me to take the next exit. Grudgingly I took the exit. Diversion sign said go one way. Satnav said go the other. Decided to trust Hermione this time. She took us to a closed road.
Still, arrived eventually. Saw parents for the first time in nearly 2 years! Fridge was making a buzzing noise.
Day 1 Fridge had stopped buzzing.
Went to a small Comic con in Sussex. Flick's idea. An artist she likes was there. Actually a decent drive from where my parents live but this was a nice drive around Sussex country roads.
Went to the con. Flick saw the person she wanted to see. We bought more prints than we really should have but the guy was delightfully nerdy.
Flick wanted me to take her up Devil's Dyke, so I did.
Devil's Dyke is a valley with a nice view, and a pub at the top. We had a rather too heavy lunch there, before returning heading to my favourite place in all of Sussex - Middle Farm. Home of the greatest Cider collection in the world! Seriously - there's a shop with over 100 barrels of cider and perry from across the country. Don't think you'll see that anywhere else. Even most Cider festivals are smaller.
Returned home to be fed a Roast Beast by my dad.
Also discovered that the fridge had stopped buzzing because it had packed up. Cue a panicked phone call to my brother to store some food there, and transferring the stuff from the freezer to the spare freezer they have in the garage. My dad's Tetris skills proved useful as we squeezed everything in there.
