This Time is Was Pete

Phone call on Saturday from Pete asking me if I would like to accompany him to Cheltenham to pick up some Bee Hives he had seen on eBAY. Right, so he turns up on Saturday morning to take me with him to Cheltenham. One thing about eBay is that I get to see different parts of the countryside. This time it was via Chippy and Stow into the beautiful Gloucestershire countryside on a lovely April morning. "Oh to be in England now that April is there" Well we were there and it was lovely!
I don't know how many miles we travelled but we eventually arrived in a field full of boxes that turned out to be "bee hives" Pete was not very impressed as they appeared to be made out of ply-wood, although the frames were OK inside. To pay some £65 each seemed like daylight robbery so we reversed and continued on through to Cheltenham and made our way along the A 40 and home. A beautiful drive but not so good on the way back as the Cotswolds. I went with Pete to Forty Green as Jess was packing up ready to fly to the Plillipines (Manilla), on the morrow, via Brunei. Beth was out and was hoping to return at midnight, so after a cuppa and some food, Pete drove me back to K/S. A lovely day out.
Today, I spoke to JJ and Julian on the Skype. JJ was a bit tired after his trip to Paris to try and get a visa, as he only had a Mali passport and they all got some 'baby' training, as he was very tired!! We said our farewells and I switched off Skype.

Just then I had a knock on the front door and received 150 special copies of Cherries, in three large cardboard boxes. I struggled to open the top box, anticipating who had sent me such a collection of cardboard boxes using the only sharp knife I had, An everlasting carving knife that we had bought in an hotel in Eastbourne on one Annual Meeting of the Catenian Association. The boxes were too heavy to move and they were in my front porch, preventing me from closing the door. However, I struggled and eventually managed to close the door. I had also managed to extract the first book, confirmig that the delivery was indeed, Cherries from Chauvet's Orchard, so I rang Julian to tell him my good news and I have been reading the top book and have got halfway through when I realised that I still had this email in draft form. I have passed M. Chauvet's passing and I will continue after tea. So long all and I hope you will all soon receive the book and love it as much as I do.