As the week drew to a close the weather forecast for Saturday had been suggesting that heavy rain was likely. This was not welcome, as Bubbles had booked us in for a morning's clay shooting at the Cotswold Shooting Ground in Childswickham.
On rising I could see that we had experienced a few showers overnight, but the weather was reasonable. There was a cool breeze, but no rain, for the moment.
After my early morning chores, I threw my gun and shooting bag in the car, and headed across the Vale of Evesham for a fun morning's shooting. My score was dreadful, but I had a pleasant time catching up with Bubbles' and Ben's news.
And, even better than that, not a single drop of rain fell from the sky.
In the afternoon my first job was to remove the touring screen from the BMW, so that I could affix my Crit ' Air* sticker to the inside. I know that I should have done this on Thursday, when I originally fitted the screen, but I foolishly didn't.
Basically I am now in the process of slowly getting ready for the tour to Germany. I still haven't ridden my bike with the panniers fitted, but I am sure I will get to that before next Friday ... I bloody well hope it is still manageable.
So, as each day passes, an item or two is ticked off the virtual list and/or is added to the pile in the bedroom.
As my holiday preparations continue I realised that my stock of bottled honey is running short, and I am hoping 30% will manage my little retail establishment** while I am away. I therefore spent a couple of hours liquifying and bottling the first batch from this year's honey harvest.
I now have twelve jars bottled, labelled, and ready for sale. That should be enough to keep her going.
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* A French vehicle emissions certification that permits access to municipal clean air zones
** A tiny little roadside table, not even worthy of the term, "stall"
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