Making Friends and an odd Coincidence

Thursday 20 March

Chores, chilling, cycling, swimming (Louis) and socialising - enjoying our time near Cromwell.

The Lowburn Freedom Camp has only one drawback, proximity to SH6 - the noisy trucks and crazy commuters start up around 6am.

Looking the other way though, by 8ish the dawn light on the lake made up for the early awakening.

Our morning was filled with chores - supermarket shopping and laundry in town. Funny adventures in the supermarket - we dropped the trolley at the end of the aisle, came back and picked up another trolley in error… only realised 5 mins later so spent a while hunting down our trolley and doing a swap with the lady who had ours… (still not sure if it was us or her making the original error) then bumping into her up & down the aisles and giggling! 🤭.

Good old Liquid Laundromat came to the rescue for the large pile of laundry we had collected and we ended up having a lovely catch up with Abby & Jez while our smalls and T-shirts tumbled dry! Loved the car outside where they had clearly just washed their trainers but didn't want to tumble dry them!

After a late lunch in Banjo, we hopped on the bikes for a wee cycle up Lake Dunstan to Pisa Moorings which was a rather Stepford Wives type new development.

Our favourite thing about it was Kevin the goat who was being taken for a walk by his owner, alongside a lovely black Labrador 🖤

Back at Banjo, Louis struggled into his wetsuit in the heat of the afternoon then I dropped him off 3km up the lake so he could swim back to camp.

Meantime I popped to the orchard fruit store for a few fresh treats - including our favourite ruby kiwi fruit ❤️

Come the evening, we trotted off across the camp for cheese & crackers and wine time with our new Snowy friends Jenny & Warren and their new Moho neighbours Elaine & Richard. Funnily enough the latter had lived in Pyrford 5-6 years before we moved to Byfleet and were big in the local NCT too!

It’s a small small world... Under a dark dark sky - the moon never rose that evening.