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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) 