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- Awoken by B ( Julia's housemate ) going off to
put the horses on a walking machine to exercise them ( her
job ). More sleep.
- Had a wierd dream about drug use, and a police
raid, and a shotgun and other strange stuff. Woken by Julia
passing through to set up church ( in a local school ).
- Break fast, grunted at Alasdair and Julie, off
to church in the car ( which by now had developed an interesting,
expensive creaking noise in the power steering ).
- Lovely group of people, a very pleasant church
service, it's good to have a bricklayer giving the sermon which
while unfocused was interesting; on holiness. Also the free
form praise was rather inspiring and liberating.
- Met some people I hadn't seen for ages; Allison
Thompson and her Mum, good to catch up, she is so much better
than me at the violin now it's a shame, felt cowed. Still she
does teach it and play all the time.
- Drove around for a while seeing the lovely
countryside and trying to find a pub for lunch. Eventualy
retreated home for toasted, bacon and brie, olive bread
sandwiches which were extremely fine.
- Off for a walk around Julia's jogging route,
across some of the training area for the young horses, pretty
skylines in various directions, rather distracted by the matter
at hand. A lovely saunter.
- Back home for tea and chocolates, and then the
farewell and got a lift back into London with Alasdair and
Julie. Had a long and fascinating discussion with Alasdair
about the dangers of post stressed concrete girders and
demolishing buildings containing them. Interesting that
moterway bridges are designed for a lifetime of 120 years.
Julie fell asleep in the back.
- Tube / train home. My laptop decided to suspend
to disk extremely slowly; I was amazed when upon feeding it a
new battery it recovered nicely ( apart from some X screwups
a mode changed fixed ).
- Thought I was doing well with Dad ( being vague ),
but Mum saw through me. Tried to stall with a discussion of
power steering to no avail.
- Mum: "If she less than 6 years older that's fine,
XYZ aunt & uncle were very happily married..."
- Dad: "Does she look like the back of a bus ?" Me:
"Sadly not: extremely pretty when she smiles" Dad: "Very dangerous
these smilers" ( Father's philosophy of women is that ones that
look like the back of a bus don't run off on you ).
- Mum: "You don't want anyone from those awful flat
places" ( born in Yorkshire ).
- Dad: "I don't know anything about this strange piece"
- Mum: "So when am I going to meet her?"
- Dad: "Look what I was lumbered with" etc.
- An evening of general comedy :-)
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Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
