Chad and I are doing a bit of a staycation, hanging out together along with visiting a few folk in the UK and I cannot wait.  The only downside is that the cats have to spend time in a cattery (which we hate doing) but I am sure that they will be OK. 

I am also going to break my blogging / google reader / twitter addiction for the next 14 days.  I am also going to disable the email on my Blackberry to help facilitate the brain rest. The Crump is officially off-line. 

I’ve got two great creative / business books to read (my favourite genre which Claire my business partner bought me for my birthday) plus a load of trash thriller novels (my second favourite genre).  So I am going to be paper-based for the next couple of weeks which is all very exciting.

It will be great if the weather improves but ho hum if it doesn’t – I am going to sleep until 9 every morning and it is going to be bliss.

So my friends be good and ‘have fun’.

We stayed in a quaint little cottage which was on the Walcot Hall estate. It is called the Dipping Shed on account of the fact that they once dunked woolly beings in chemicals to keep them tick and flea free. It is suitably cottage like – just want us Londoners need from our weekends away.

However there was something very strange about this place…

Here is the cottage…
Here is the lovely view…
However, the interior was like the set of a b-movie horror film…

Then it got a whole lot worse…