Friday.

Busy day today. Worked, fairly successfully, in workshop all morning. Ann was helping at the Ansell Luncheon Club. Picked her up outside it at 2.45 pm and drove to Stowmarket for a haircut. Then on to Bury St. Edmund's, to the garage where we bought our car three years ago. They sent us a letter a few days ago, to let us know that they could offer us a really good deal if we would care to run it in against a new one. Deal turned out not to be quite as advantageous as they'd suggested (well not to us anyway- probably would have been from point of view of garage ) . After a good deal of discussion, hammered out a deal that 'we will think about and let them know'. On the way home we called in on our good friend Terry to deal with a problem that her clock has developed. I'd assured her on the 'phone that I'd be able to put it right in minutes but in fact couldn't deal with it in situ so had to bring it home (top had broken off suspension spring of pendulum) - so much for breezy self confidence - shall have to remember to sound much more pessimistic when diagnosing horological problems over 'phone - customers will then be more impressed when I do cure their clocks - mem. take leaf out of book of medical profession. In fact cured problem in five minutes when in workshop. Will take pendulum back to Terry tomorrow - hope she hasn't read blog in meantime, she being a member of the medical profession. I think the idea is given in Fielding's Tom Jones that Doctors always look gloomy when examining a patient. So that if he dies they can say 'told you so', and if he recovers they gain the more credit from dealing with the case.
Oh, by the way, above photo is of Terry and your blogger taken a while back at Sue and David's. Good night all.
P.S. Sorry Terry. Shouldn't tease.