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- Up early, J mowed the lawn to prepare for parents arrival, showered, small breakfast.
- Church - video on "Ministry in the Workplace" same guy as "Thank God It's Monday" and the guy that started the "Adopt a Phonebox" campaign to rid our boxes of pimp's call cards.
- Lots of farewells to Julia and then back home to meet her parents and her sister (Sue) & boyfriend (Clive), and out for dinner.
- Off to the XYZ for a very pleasant dinner, and then the parents went shopping [ J' and I abstained ( Sunday ) ]. Managed to get Mr Griffin on his own and ask his permission to ask his daughter to marry me [ of course, only on the understanding that God thinks it's ok ]. Positive response - excellent.
- Back home, and off for a walk on the heath - where they race the horses - to take Clive's dogs for a run.
- Back for tea, a garden examination, and then present unwrapping - J's parents: masters of economy. They use wall-paper to wrap presents, at 1UKP / roll, far cheaper than 'wrapping' paper [ and thicker too ], good tip for the future. Also it was Sue's birthday soon, so she opened her presents early [ displaying a certain lack of the proper decorum, but understandable since all the family were there ].
- Julia got a bottle of "Superior Bath Foam" - essentialy a balsamic vinegar bottle re-filled by mother with Tesco's bath oil of some sort - to much merriment. Lots of other nice presents though.
- Read "Guns, Germs & Steel" to Julia as she packed all her stuff, amazing the spread of the food production package East - West in Eurasia, and the almost total lack of food technology spread in Africa and America ( North - South ) in prehistoric times. Apparently "America the Beautiful" is almost entirely wrong, in Eurasia the corn spreads thousands of miles under wide skies from East to West - whereas no indigenous American corn species managed to get from East to West America [ or sim. ].
- A spot of dinner: scrambled egg with cream instead of milk, yum; eatups time. The Girl went to bed, the Boy tampered with her luggage at some length.
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Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com) 