Hi All,
Nice to hear from you Pete, I hope you and your family are all good.
Kylie's Birthday is on the 5th December.
Named because of the bike rack dilemma and I chose the quasi rack. So I thought the 2 would compliment each other and Esmerelda (beautiful though she may be) didn't fill me with the same excitement as Kylie for a companion. Na na na I can't get her out of my head..
Like you Pete we totted up some miles in the New Forest and the Lake District as well as the west country. We want to get to the Gower in 2019 as well as venturing into Europe via the shuttle.
In the outstanding summer we've had shes been a brilliant day bus taking us off to the beach late afternoons on so many occasions when most people had been beaten by the sun and retreated to their homes. We'd sit chilled, parallel parked facing the Beach front lapping up the Ocean breeze in our very own lounge of one of these aptly named vehicles. The Solent was a very warm and welcoming mill pond most of the time which is in stark contrast to how I usually feel about it and British waters in general, I'm not a hardened water activity fan. Many occasions we'd wait for the sun to go down before setting off home. We've been spoiled this year and long may it continue. The rack has seen little use in fairness but has been used almost exclusively for one bike (mine of course) on a handful of occasions.
With some house conversion work going on she has carried large sheet materials and long runs of plumbing waste pipes etc proving very versatile at the drop of a hat. Now as nice as the weather was through September and October, a great big hole in the roof of our house and building dust from ripped down ceilings meant it wasn't conducive to a decent nights sleep so for different reasons I once more had the chance to sleep with Kylie
on the drive.
Having access to a small Kia Cee'd belonging to Mrs 2020 I was able to keep the milage down on commuting a bit. I'm not to fussed as I have no insurance milage limitation but out of habit I have half an eye on the milage which is almost bang on 10,000. That should increase next year as I think there is at least a months less motoring than normal owing to being around when the building work was ongoing and not commuting. Its worked well for bringing us together as a family too it's a shame that my 12 year olds mobile still works though as she sits in the back and we shout "ohh look at that, isn't it lovely" only for her to pop up her head and reply "what??? oh wait I missed that". We'd explain the issue only for it to re-occur time and time again. First service now due I will enquire about any retrospective software setting following the emissions issue that held people up for a frustrating delay literally only a few days after parking Kylie on my drive for the first time.
Have a great Christmas all
had some very inquisitive caravaners spark up conversation
