<img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1261" alt="brigg-market-square" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/brigg-market-square.jpg" width="200" height="150" />Our temporary home is just outside Brigg in North Lincolnshire. I say North Lincolnshire but it has a post code that puts it in South Humberside and it seems there is a local movement to retain the Lincolnshire name which makes it all very confusing for us new comers.

Life here seems to run at a different pace - if you can imagine London runs at 50 minutes to the hour; Northampton at 60 mins to the hour; well here our clocks have about 75 mins to the hour. Its a pace that suits us retired folk and of course everyone drives slower which can be frustrating, particularly when you need to get somewhere fast. Maybe I'll slow down.

Because the pace of life seems slower everyone has more time to chat and therefore it is so much friendlier than Northampton but don't expect to get away from the shops in a hurry. We're also having to travel a little further to find the things we've got used to having - don't expect to find a range of mixed nuts in the local Tesco, no you have to go further afield to fulfil that need, along with LickyLicks for Murphy.

Talking of Murphy, he has settled in well but we only allow him out into the extensive garden accompanied in case his old, demented brain gets him lost. As it is he gets lost in the confines of the house.

On balance this adventure is doing us a lot of good. We have to think about where we're going and our lives are no longer on autopilot. Thank goodness for the internet which shows us where the nearest Skoda garage, or B&amp;Q or Home Bargains is located.