I hear that those blooming earthquakes have cranked up a gear again - I wish there was some magic potion I could send your way, particularly because I know that this weekend there will be a lot of hype and discussion focussed on you all with the pending anniversary of the day all our lives were changed irreversibly.
You're all very much in my thoughts this weekend - it's just not fair. But looking on the bright side - I guess the spring bulbs are bursting into life and the gardens are beginning to look a bit brighter ... just so long as the third snowfall decides not to come. I remember one year I had to cancel a birthday party for dad (27 August) because it was the weekend we had that heavy fall and everyone lost their guttering/spouting in the middle of the night. So I guess its not entirely unprecedented.
Am still in Wales - until next Wednesday. The swimming pool still has no magnetic pull - though I often sit down there, watching everyone else. The water is often warmer than the climate! I'm then back to Steph and Ray's in Reading for about 5 days ... their son Russell is marketing his home privately at the moment, and we are going to have a bit of a chat about strategies etc. Then on the following Monday (12th) I move on to Philip and Rosemary for a week in Cirencester.
At the beginning of October, I'm off to Budapest for 5 days with Lynne - for whom I look after a rental, back at home. Not somewhere that I would ever have craved to go ... but now that I am, I'm told it is beautiful and well worth a visit ... I will give my opinion in due course, no doubt.
Travelled by train (on my Pensioner's Pass) to Newport today, to visit Jean - my flatmate from the early 1970's when I was in London on my first OE. We spent 5 hours together and reminisced and caught up without getting a chance to take breath it seemed. Where on earth have those last 40 years gone??
Keep safe my friends -
Nos da.
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