Doesn't everybody pop over to The Netherlands for lunch??
We left here at 3.30am Sunday morning, drove to Dover, crossed the Channel and arrived in Calais at 10am local time. 30 minutes to get off the boat and through customs and then we were away for a 3 hour drive through France, Belgium and on into The Netherlands the whole time accompanied by Vee 'singing' or sleeping.
It was absolutely wonderful to see Genevieve and Raymond again, they are true friends and I can't wait for our next get together :-) Their cats, as ever, were gorgeous and it was wonderful to see Cc and Bunny looking so happy. I think we had about 4 of their adults squeezed into the carrier at one point but I didn't manage to sneak them out! So, we had some lunch had a chat and then had to start on our return journey back to Calais.
The boat was delayed for the return trip and then at gone 10 o'clock at night the M25 was solid through the Dartford tunnel and then solid again just before the M11 junction, only in England!! We eventually arrived home in an exhausted heap just before 1am!!
Many thanks to Clair and Chris for checking our beasties during the day and an enormous thank you to Genevieve and Raymond for Lucy, she is utterly wonderful and I can't tell you how delighted I am to have a Jarod baby :-)
Lucy 'Uskaya URASTR8 du Hovali' is a Chocolate & White Selkirk Rex straight female, her sire is the stunning SGCA Jethro Jarod du Hovali and her dam our very own Lelaurier Backtosquareone. We had wanted a Jarod baby from the day we met him and since he only sired a few litters, one to Bunny, one to Ollie's mum and one to Ollie's sister we knew we'd be bringing part of a line back in to the UK but Jarod's pedigree is a one off and one we are delighted to have been entrusted with.
TTFN
Claire
