Gingerbread Travels - Februar 2020

Shortly after arriving back in Burnley for New Year we received an email from Papichen.  He was taking advantage of the New Year sales and had booked the ferry to come and visit for a few days.  They had booked the 14th Feb, Valentines Ferry (my last day of term) and would leave the following Thursday.  The main mission was to, as always, shop.  Little did we know that it would rain everyday, so we kept things local and undercover.  I’ve learned my lesson they are not a young and mobile as they once were so trips were short and sweet.  We still managed to clock up the miles.

Tim Horton’s was somewhere I wanted to take them as Papichen is obsessed with Maple donuts I’m not sure why🍁 🍩.  So we went to Bury branch stopping in on all of the charity shops on the way.  On a side note we started to watch Netflix’s “The Stranger” and it was filmed in Bury, in fact we sat outside the coffee shop the husband visited.

We went to Ewood Park as Mamilein wanted to buy Lilbigbro something, seemed to be the theme of the week.  We made a trip to Costco where Mamilein devoured the Crabstick Samplers.  If you’ve seen the meme of the guy in different costumes trying the samples he has nothing on her. It was a lovely week and it was a shame went they went home, we had gotten into a nice little routine, stills there is always Easter.

Gingerbread Familia - Februar 2020

Happy Valentines Day

We’re not big into Valentines.  Each year we say we’re not taking part, it’s just commercial rubbish, then one of us caves.  This year we bought cards, we’ll start with the romantic, then the funny and then the down right rude.

Gingerbread Life - Februar 2020

When we moved to the Northernshire we took Asterix to the Burnley Vauxhall Dealers Mechanic and the service was appalling.  They kept the car for three days, it was an MOT, overcharged us on everything and the staff were sullen and for lack of a better word, dumb.  The next time he was due for a service we looked further afield and found an approved dealer in Oldham.  It wasn’t too far from Tod and they really took care of us.  They even gave us a free photo session as a welcome gift.  We/I never got round to using the voucher though.

This time, after we took Gordon in for his first check up and received  the voucher, I made the appointment.  We headed to Altrincham, found a Tim Horton’s and has some photos taken.  We have selected a photo as our free print and are going to save up to buy them all at some point, we are saving up for so many things at the moment.  I like the photo we have chosen because unlike all of the the other photos of us we aren’t smiling.