Old Home

Today feeling a bit better, sun was out and although quite cold, took the chance of being driven to my parent's first house in the UK, bought in 1970 [£5,000] when we moved from Trinidad to the UK. My father had left Norfolk in 1947 for Trinidad. The house was sold in 1979 within months of my mother dying very early at 52 from cancer. My father couldn't cope with the memories.

So mixed feelings particularly as the main reason for the UK visit was to visit her grave in the village and organise for my father's ashes to join her. My illness had prevented any action on this.

Anyway, good to get out for the first time and even ended up doing some grocery shopping. 

I mentioned in the car that I missed not being able to buy Grape Nuts in Germany. Call was made from the car to Waitrose Wymondham  who were brilliant,  a member of staff dashing to the shelves to check there were some there and offeringto reserve them! In Germany you can'teven get the phone numbersof nationwide supermarkets & the idea of phoning up to check on stock would get you a lifelong ban.

Then to Tesco in Norwich to buy some UK essentials to take back, primarily Paracetamol. Here I learnt the trick of going through checkout twice using different payment methods.  Then by special request, got cooked a lovely lamb supper. Lamb is very rare in Germany,  not the state of cooking but availability.