I scheduled four posts just before leaving for a short break at the end of last week. We were in fact driving down to Oswestry which is very close to the Welsh border, at one point we had to drive into Wales and then out of it again to reach Oswestry which is a place neither of us had been before.

So what was the reason for our jaunt? Well, it was a football match because Jack is a very loyal supporter of Dumbarton Football Club (soccer). They’re what other supporters would probably call a ‘diddy’ team as they’re part-timers, all of them having ‘proper’ jobs, but this year they’ve done amazingly well in the Scottish Challenge Cup (officially known as the Irn Bru Cup because of its sponsors) and because they won the match at Oswestry they have now reached the final which thankfully will be played in Scotland.

I didn’t go to see the match, I stayed in the hotel and got on with reading Anna Karenina, a much more sensible thing to do, especially on a cold February night. I didn’t go online at all while we were away so I’m just catching up with replying to comments and reading blogs.

I plan to do another RRS Discovery post this week and also to tell you about the books that I bought on our travels – a worrying amount of them, but I just couldn’t say no!