I'm now in Kent in a very comfortable and good value boutique hotel cum pub about four miles from Maidstone. I managed to get an hour of film today at slough and Bracknell whichwboth offer an interesting diversion from much of the normal offerjngs where reading in its many guises along with independents provide the backbone of services and allbthe drivers were very friendly and in bracknell i had aaplessant chat with a Burmese refugee who was surprised to meet someone with much knowledge and familiarity with his birth country.bit was sunny until afternoon then that evril sunshine and clouds. I was staying on here are it was supposed to be cloudy tomorrow although that is no longer certain. IllI get Maidstone finished first thing and catch the morning rush hour and hope that it holds out against the sun and then head to Chatham which can stand a degree of sunshine, it will be another month or more and the clocks changing before sunshine is a benefit filming rather than a hazard. The family funeral saw me up at a quarter to four am and straight down to Guildford where I took advantage of the light cloud and got the busy morning rush hour services then across Surrey and west susseS down to Littlehampton which I haven't visited for several decades. We had a family lunch although I stuck to ice cream albeit it turned out to be a shake whatever that is like runny ice cream with bits or lumps in it. Then north of Worthing through heavy traffic to get to the crematorium for uncle Roy's. Funeral and back to east Preston later for some lovely sandwiches and cakes to which my sister Yvonne served up in the absence of Mandy who is in ireland. I'm not really that helpless but usually I'll drop something and make a mess. Then I headed east to hailsham north of Eastbourne to see john and Maureen bishop swapping films, magazines etc and a welcome brew to keep me going and then back across to Brighton and up the aa23 and then some bumpy pot holes roads worse than Cheshire cat which I thought impossible to the country house hotel in the middle of nowhere. TThereading lamp didn't work and I was too tired to tell anyone but it was absolutely quiet and comfortable and I was straight to sleep waking before the alarm to be ready for breakfast at seven and I had a susages sandwich plus pastries juice and fruit. Then the hunt for somewhere to film, I tried Uxbridge twice , useless this time of year so that's how I ended up in nearby Slough. The hotel I'm in now has a noisy road outside even though it's rural but is a lot bigger and stylish than last night so much so that fasting day or not I'll try alight supper and pudding just to check it out for the future as well need somewhere for the detling rally in April. Home after filming tomorrow hopefully getting clear of London before the pm rush hour it seems to be holidays again for the children they never seem to be at school these days.
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