Ocknell 2017

Camped up at about 16:00, we managed to get our favorite spot at the end looking over a little valley.

Had a couple of G&Ts and then spread Geza’s ashes over a little tree in the valley. It was the same spot he used to watch looking out for deer and rabbits 2 years earlier and sums up New Forest camping for us.

Pizza for tea, followed by a terrific thunderstorm, lightning the whole works.

Next day we extended our stay and took a walk to the Royal Oak, Fritham.

Tonight chicken indian, rice and small naan.

Tomorrow not sure may move somewhere else.

Setthorns, 24th Feb

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Wanted to visit New Forest to get a tree fix, so booked into Setthorns. This time we booked a standard pitch with EHU, not a Select pitch. The pitches are smaller as such harder to get level on, we managed but did for the first time park up somewhere we could not get level with the hydraulics, we moved.

We also had a look around and decided that Select pitch next time.

Saturday, walked about 6 miles to the pub and back, Geza managed it but was tired. When we got back a caravan alarm was going off turns out it was the one next door, nothing untoward but quite annoying, we decided not to move and they did come back under the cover of darkness.

As it turns out the walk was a bit too much for Geza and when we got back home we ended up taking him to the vet, after offering to put him to sleep which we declined we took home with some Antibiotics and pain killers. He did not move or drink/eat anything for about 36 hours, by this time we had been back to the vet and they gave him an anti nauseum injection whihc did not help. Tuesday morning after deciding if no improvement we would put him to rest, he seemed to perk up and almost back to normal. Much weaker but still quite alert.