Real rain + Wind = Stay Home

Another of our guests have been the quail.

After several days of overcast and threatening rain, today we had the real thing. Rain in the morning and early afternoon, then high wind. We did our gym workout in the morning, did a little shopping for non-food supplies, then went home and stayed there. We're spending a lot more time indoors than we anticipated. We leave for two weeks in Turkey on Thursday and maybe the weather will finally be Spring when we return.

Most of the towns and villages are quite old and have very narrow streets. Traffic is tight and parking is at a premium. A lot of the street parking either fills up very early or is restricted to residents of the area. There are public parking lots, but it is often poorly identified and is almost always paid. This poor identification has caused us problems, such as I described in Pangbourne. We have Henley and Wallingford pretty well figured out by now. You pay up front and put the receipt on the dash; this usually results in overpaying. The Brits are flexible and often offer their unexpired tickets to a car just entering the lot. I've been the recipient of this twice and the offerer once. Anything to "put it to the man" (or the Exchequer)!