Sunday.

 

Snapshot of a particularly festive aquilegia (or granny's nightcap) in the garden. One of Ann's favourite flowers. On Friday we were invited to Orford Castle to give an opinion on a rather nice goat's foot lever (device to span a crossbow). A good and complete specimen, probably 17th century. We took Matthew with us and did a bit of shopping in Woodbridge on way. Yesterday Ann put Matthew on train back to London. We had thoroughly enjoyed his visit, as I think he had, too. Went to scrabble club in afternoon. There were two new men there. They were from Ipswich, and explained (rather condescendingly) that they had heard of our scrabble club. The younger one played at my table, and, during the early part of the first game, kindly explained all the finer points of the game to us. he grew rather more silent as the game progressed, and (I am rather unsportingly glad to report) was soundly thrashed during the first two games. He then shut up, concentrated hard, and did manage to win the third game by a narrow margin. He did say he had every attention of coming again. In a way I hope he does if only so that we can continue to teach him sportsmanship, and hopefully we can all learn a bit more about scrabble. Been a busy day of rest today, two services, both of us in choir this morning, self in choir this evening, and Ann serving. Off to bed now. Goodnight.