This morning we woke up to fairly heavy rain and gusty winds, very chilly. We had to put the heat on. We didn't mind it too much and planned to spend the day working with our respective online classes and planning our upcoming week. But my laptop died suddenly. Turned out to be the AC adapter, so we googled some sites on Bob's laptop and found a PC World in Gloucester about 20 minutes away. They were totally helpful and confirmed what we thought and had a compatible adapter. So now I can access my hard drive. On the way back we took a a little detour through the back roads (actually, they're ALL back roads and so beautiful), got onto a narrow track through fields and pastures, but we eventually found our way back. We were in search of an "authentic" English pub called the The Butcher's Arms in a tiny village called Sheepscombe, recommended by an English couple standing in line next to us at PC World. We're almost convinced that they were having a bit of fun at the dumb Americans' expense and there is no such place! Will keep you posted.
I'm roasting half a leg of
More stuff as we get around to it.
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Were you able to find Sheepscombe but not The Butcher's Arms or was the village hiding, too? John and I were looking for the The White Horse Inn in the dark one night in Wales. When we finally turned around to head back, we found it. It was impossible to see from the other direction.
We found Sheepscombe but not the Butcher's Arms. Today we found a pub called the Butcher's Arms in an entirely different place. I'm still convinced it's a British ruse to get even over the War of Independence.
Or they didn't put the street signs back up correctly after WWII. That's John's theory after driving around Wales.
Online classes? I thought the PURPOSE of a vacation was to get away from responsibility!
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