It turned out easier to split the family up today when S woke up with all the symptoms F has displayed for the last couple of days - sore throat, temperature, feeling cold, headache etc.
Somehow A and E have both managed to avoid it so far, so they came with me and Baggins to Wickham for the day.

Despite being in the Hamble Valley (well, at the eastern most edge of our range) I have never been before. Can see why - not exactly the most exciitng place, with the exception of the uniquely interesting Chesapeake Mill

which is now an antique and craft centre with over 40 traders inside.
A fantastic range of 'stuff' from retro dolls and furniture to handmade everything else!
A was in heaven, and we spent ages just wandering about the three storeys just looking at it all. Picked up a wrought iron fruit basket for Uncle D's birthday next week and decided I must have one myself.
Took a handful of other photos as well, hopefully one might find its way into the new HV guide before we hit 'print' on Wednesday.

Asisde from the last 25 aa maps (of which I have now done only one...) I have been distracted into the world of F*xx again and revisiting all my bootlegs now the entire collectio is surrounding me.
Quite appalled how badly wrong I have labelled a couple, which are now sorted. Covers 23 Ultrav*x gigs, but this includes two that we only have a couple of tracks from.
Somewhere there must be a full recording of the Rainbow gig from Feb '77 (source of the Retro EP material) and similar for the Huddersfield Polytechnic gig in October of that year.
In fact, the Marquee on Dec 31st has also been used to source a b-side, so that too must have a recording somewhere.

I feel a rummage coming on.

And I still haven't had my discs back from Ris since my visit...