David and Jo's Adventures: Licences arrive!!!!

Fri 14^th Feb 2014

Today Jess leaves Australia! It’s Valentine’s Day and David got me a MMM Magazine! It’s also Malcolm’s and Johanne’s (Oz) birthdays - happy birthday to both of you. Woke to pouring rain and treated myself to a large/long shower in Val & Malcolm’s house as we are still on their driveway. Val came into Priscilla while I made homemade soup which we then took into the house for lunch. Just then the doorbell went and we heard “Parcel for Parsons” - a big cheer went up all around! Yes our International licences had arrived. We quickly got hold of Jess before she boarded her flight and changed her plans - she is now going to get a train from Heathrow to Brokenhurst and we will pick her up tomorrow! This works out better as we can travel over France to Spain together in Priscilla and she can see David & Sheila in Bridport before she starts her 24 day 12 country Top Deck Winter Wonderland tour of Europe on the 6^th March. Very exciting as now we can plan.

Sarah (Malcolm’s daughter from Luton) arrived for a few days and to celebrate her Dad’s birthday. Val cooked a birthday meal and then we played cards (Phase 10). The weather was getting terrible and it was all over the news! Milford-on-Sea where we had walked not 2 days ago had 25 people trapped in their sea side café! Had a great Skype with Bec & James (glad to see Bec looking so much better now). About midnight we all piled into the car and drove down to the sea front at Highcliffe to watch and wonder the dramatic severity of the storm! It was WILD!!!!!! Lots of beach huts that we had walked by the other day where all smashed up across the beach! Got to bed about 1am but didn’t sleep a wink as Priscilla was rocking and very deafening with the wind - it was very scary too.