Monthly Archives: April 2025

Tuscany ‘25

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Vicky and Simon have just returned from a fantastic trip to Tuscany, Italy.

We flew into Pisa, spent some time in Lucca, Florence, Trasimeno lake, Cortona, Monte San Savino, San Gimignano, Gambassi Terme and Pisa once again.

The entire trip was filled with laughter and great times. The cocktails, beer and of course wine was all free flowing and delightful – including this cheeky glass of wine in one of the many “wine holes” we located in the beautiful city of Florence….

We sadly didn’t’t manage to find an average meal anywhere – every single one was outstanding.

Massive thanks to Dafit and Jilly for joining us and making the memories – Tuscany, we will never forget your beauty, your terrific food, incredible wines (and bonus cocktails) and of course the great laughs we enjoyed all the way through.

We hope to see you again soon 🙂

Spring may have sprung

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it has been a lovely week of terrific sunshine and general outdoor warmth.

Both front and rear lawns have now had their first cuts of the season, the rear garden furniture is back on the garden and it feels warm during the day….

Last weekend we installed Elliot’s new led grill to Marco (although we have yet to sort the electrics to enable it to actually work) and this weekend (well today) has been a Mia special.

Olly has sorted out an oil change and the replacement of the rocker cover gasket – both of which have helped eradicate a ticking noise that the engine has recently begun to experience. Safe to say, he is delighted so we will need to do another oil change and oil filter change in the coming weeks (so we can check for any crap in the oil – given we know it was new as of today.

We took it out for a little run and it was in great form overall. Hopefully during this next couple of weeks (schco holidays) Olly will find the time in his busy revision schedule to begin to take a look at the door windows – the drivers side needs checking for functioning electronics so that we can put an electric kit back in it (previous owner removed it for some reason 🙁 ) and also to look at the passenger side to determine if we can just buy a repair kit to replace the cables – we think this is all that is required to ease the opening / closing operations (basically we think the system is gunged up and a replacement cable mechanism (rather than entire system) will suffice).