Transpiring against me?

[Resurgam]

                               Well, I was planning on giving a new area of beach a good going over, for the third time this comming Friday. Friday the 13th! No bother, Ladders and black pussy cats don't scare me either. Unless the black pussy cat happens to be a bloomin panther!

                               With the wife repeatedly whispering in my ear.............it's gonna be cold..............it's gonna snow..............it's gonna be windy...........and there's gonna be ice on the roads; I just keep moving towards swinging the little  old Safari over some interesting sands tomorrow. But alas, fate has intervened and we we got a nasty puncture in the near side rear tyre the other day and you guessed it.................no spare wheel in the bloody boot. New car came without a spare wheel! The last car we had, we paid to have a jack and a spare wheel in the boot but never had to use it in all of three years.

                              Been waiting three days now for the mobile tyre repair service to call and fix the problem. Due any time between 0800 and teatime today! 

                              Both the weather man and the wife say there is heavy snow on the way but the BBC weather forecast for Rhyl says sunny and dry tomorrow. Hmmm, do I dar chance it?

[Dungbeetle]

Faint heart never won fair lady Chris, I was going to post a similar saying but it wouldn't have got past the censors 

[Val Beechey]

Just had a look on Met.Office site for Rhyl Amusement Arcade area for tomorrow. It says, at the moment ! It's going to be dry from about 8am temp' about 4* wind speed 35 with gusts up to 50 at worst.
They do have a habit of changing it though. I was set to introduce puppy to the beach this week while the tides are right but I'm getting soft in my old age. I've decided to leave it till the tides are right and the weather is right for me. Wonder if June will be OK 

[Resurgam]

                               Well, got the puncture sorted this morning and later went down town to do a bit of shopping and buy some dust-caps; despite only needing one. No dust-caps in Wilkinsons, ASDA, or Morrisons. Nipped into Halfords and I was 1p shoet of their price. Walking back to the car whilst scanning the pavement for an eyes-only 1p, I gave up and threw my last loose change into a busker's money box. Got to within 50 yards of the car an stumbled upon a Morrisons trolly with a bloody pound in it. Should have hung onto me loose change!  

                              Nipped into the market with me pound firmly grasped in me hand and asked a stall holder if he had any dust-caps. Yes £1.99. Argh!  
Returned to the car via the busker and threw the pound in his money box. Oh, me of little faith!  

                             Who is June, Val?

                             And as for you Christopher, I don't want to win a fair maiden; I want some gold, silver, or Roman coins to come forth from the ground for me. So now the hunt is on. The car is fixed, the wife is on side, and all me gear is ready to go. Just hope that I don't get to Rhyl and find that I have left me detector or me spade at home.  

                            

                              

                              

[scara]

Make sure you don't forget your batteries like I did the other week after driving 45 mins to one of my permissions, I couldn't even buy any batteries, not that I didn't have the money I had left the battery holder at home as well 

[wagis]

I managed one dig by turning up without a spade, fortunately someone lent me one they had spare in the car. It's all good fun isn't it lol

[Val Beechey]

Ha Ha serves you right for being sarcastic 

And guess what ?   I was looking for a washer yesterday in my box of wonders and there's a single spare dust cap in it 

[Resurgam]

                            LOL, nice one Val. I bet there is a dust cap somewhere in our shed but I aint going looking for it now. Just peeped through the curtains and there is a thin coating of snow on the car, garden, and pavement. That cancels using the A55 and going over the tops in the morning and I think I will use the coast road. Unless I can't dig the car out, that is! 

                           Will report back tomorrow evening. 

[Resurgam]

                                Driving through torential rain and wind blown spray, I drove down to Rhyl using the coast road this morning, Chickened out of going over the tops on the A55. Slow heavy traffic caused the journy to take an houre longer than normal and the fuel eficiency was down to 64 mpg by the time I arrived in Rhyl It had also stopped raining but the winds were wild and the sea looked like it was boiling.

                                 The wind had pushed the tide closer in than I had anticipated and I was left with verry little sand and shingle to detect. Walked some considderable distance westward, as far as the ASDA at Kninmel Bay and back but only managed £2 decimal and a possible half penny (pre-decimal). Plenty of aluminium and bits of scrap but nothing of much value.

                                 I had planned to have lunch in the car and then follow the ebbing tide out but as I got within 100 yards of the jetty car park the heavens opened and I was hit by a hail storm. The bloody stuff battered me and even drove into me wellies and under the soles of me feet. Darned hailstones!  

                                 Threw in the towel just after 1330 hrs and drove all the way home with a soggy bottom. Oh, and no signe of any more rain!  

                                  Hanging up the sand scoop untill longer and warmer days but may try one of my permissions next month, when the Mr Sushine shows his face earlier in the mornings.  

                                

[Val Beechey]

Like I said,  Wonder if June will be OK   

Hats off to you for being so enthusiastic. Now you've got it out of your system you can practice being sensible 

[Resurgam]

Ok Val, I think that you are starting to sound a little bit like my Mrs. Only a lttle bit; she was far harsher!