Friday.

 

Scene of unbridled hedonism outside riverside pub at teatime last Sunday. There's a good reason for printing yet another shot of last Sunday's get-together, which I will eventually get to in the course of this blog. Patience!

Been a very busy last few days. On Tuesday morning we drove to London. Viewed Arms and Armour auction at Bonham's, Knightsbridge in afternoon. Slept at Lizzie's. On Wednesday morning we both pottered (with granddaughter Beth) around Chiswick High Street, and eventually had lunch outside a rather nice little restaurant in Devonshire Road (mostly omelettes) (that word always looks wrongly spelled- have mentioned this before I think, when spelling it differently, and it still looks wrong.) (Mem. toooo many brackets in this blog). After lunch Ann and I went back to Bonham's and bid (note alliteration! more brackets though - sorry.) Got three lots-none very exciting, but, let's hope, eventually profitable. Back to Lizzie's, had early supper with Beth and Danny, then drove home to Suffolk (back home 9.30- ish). Thursday drove over to Whittlesey for annual get-together with old friends Barbara and Alan. Ann and Barbara were next door neighbours as children. This, being in the Norfolk fens, meant that they lived about a quarter of a mile apart. These days Barbara and Alan spend half their year exploring the outer reaches of the continent in their mobile home, so that we meet up annually in summer. They have a glorious garden, of which I took copious photographs for this blog. This gets me back to my remark in the first paragraph regarding the above picture, in that when we got home I found I had forgotten to replace the memory stick in my camera, so cannot publish photographs of glorious Cambridgeshire garden!!!! Had lovely lunch, afternoon and evening meal with them, but had to leave immediately after breakfast this morning in order to be home for one o'clock wedding at which we (the choir) were singing. It's a thing we notice every year, that although we haven't met up for a twelvemonth, we are immedialtely able to pick up the threads where we left off. Comes of having known people all our lives, I suppose. The wedding, and singing, went quite well. Now I must get some fresh photies together for benefit of blog. Cheers, all. Mike and Ann.