Monday 1st May 2023

On Friday I got the X7 bus to to Southampton, I was a bit worried because I was running a little bit late. I managed to get the bus just in time and sat upstairs. .

It's quite a pleasant ride, we went through Alderbury and Whiteparish. In Totten there's lots of union jack flags along the street and round the traffic island, why can't Salisbury do that?

I went to CEX in the Marlands & found some more blu rays, I always find something thing in CEX. Just down the road is another shopping center called WestKey where IKEA is.

Went there for lunch and used the plug to charge phone. The window overlooks the harbour where the cruise liners park up, there were three of them in today. One of them was the Queen Mary 2, I could identify the others. Lots of people are arriving for the coronation. 

I got a cycle hat in Decathlon,  tried on cycling shorts bit they didn't feel right.

I cycled to the Downton village cuckoo fair on Saturday, had to marshal Park Run first. Went to Heart shop to pick up a mirror, the staff couldn't find it at first: turned out they were looking for the wrong one!

I went through Odstock & Nunton, the hill approaching the hospital is bad but the hill into Nunton is worse!.  Two to three miles of Downhill!  I got off at the busy road, lorries thunder along there at motorway speed.

The cycle path leading to Downton past Charlton All Saints is fairly narrow with brambles hanging across in places, the X3 bus came past jammed to the rafters; this is why I cycled.

I parked up at Trafalgar school and went across the playing field to the  green where all the tents are, last time I came with my cousin Alan who is so controlling and bossy its unbelievable. 

There are many marquees at the Cuckoo fair.  The Downton Cuckoo Fair's first recorded history is from 1530, the fair was discontinued after World War I and revived in 1979.  .