Day 359 - Moving Day

Mum in her new pad

My mother has recently moved house: after 35+ years in what was the second family home (nothing to do with second families...), last week she upped sticks and moved up to the top of the village into a small three bedroom town-house.  It's been a major move and has required a lot of tough decisions to get rid of both oversized furniture as well as accumulated clutter.

My brothers Tony and Roger had done a great job in actually making the move happen as well as getting the new house set up. When I go there today, it already starts to feel like home and it is great to see so many photos and pictures helping it do so.

My job was to sort out the technical stuff: we got the wifi fixed up, the phone line repaired, the TV connected and the CD player working as well as ensuring that the bluetooth speaker works off the iPad: no excuse for no music and entertainment going forward!

I had driven up for the day in my Tesla: a good test of the technology as I knew that I'd have no opportunity to recharge when there. When fully charged, the on-board computer states that it has a range of 245 miles and the round trip journey is a touch under 220 so it should be no problem?  I knew however from online research that this range can degrade in the cod and wet weather, especially if you travel over 70mph and make use extensive use of the heater.

Poor quality pic of my journey tracker

I am pleased to report that, with some careful driving and extensive use of the AutoPilot and Traffic adjusted cruise control, I managed to get home last night with 12% (35 miles) still "in the tank".  Kudos to Tesla's on-board software which worked perfectly.

Before we went out to dinner, Mum and I spent a fun half an hour leafing though some of the envelopes she had kept entitled "children's letters": she had catalogued and maintained all the weekly missives that the four of us were then required to send  home when at boarding school.  We looked through years 1977-78, when I was at College - all I can say is that my handwriting was more legible in those days and that my own children have never ever written letters to us like those!

Out for dinner at the newly refurbished gastropub the Cockhorse Inn ; if you are ever in Lavenham, I can thoroughly recommend the pork belly with sage mash!