Tomorrow morning, I will be leaving Reading for about 10 days with Philip and Rosemary in Cirencester. I have a couple of "dates" organised while I'm there and will be catching up with my Oxford (Bicester) friends for lunch one day and Karen (Gloucester) another day.
Steph has been a great 'patient' with her arm out of action for another 7 weeks yet. For the past couple of days she's insisted on making cups of tea and one handed folding of the washing and the like, but I've managed to do a couple of batches of ironing and will, again, vacuum through tomorrow before I leave.
I've been more use to her from the 'mobility' point of view, so we've done quite a bit of driving around to deliver prescriptions, shop, etc. She's almost as good as Tom with her directions but she DID make comment when I drove through a red light (which was about 100 yards from the next traffic light which was green) and she DID mention the tree that I backed right up to when I took her to choir practise. Tom would never have done that.
I almost got picked up for shop lifting when we went to do some grocery shopping yesterday. We'd had our usual "who will pay" argument prior to going in to the supermarket, so I know it was going to be Steph - which meant that when I saw a DVD on special for the King's Speech, I propped it up where children usually sit in the trolley, out of her way... then promptly forgot all about it until the security man responded to the alert alarm buzzing and took it out again. He wouldn't just keep the DVD but insisted that I return to the counter to make the payment ... all rather embarrassing, but at least no-one knew me there!
Tonight was the last episode of "Downton Abbey" and I was relieved to see that it was left "in the air", so presumably there will be a third series in due course. Strictly Come Dancing was on last night, with the half hour follow up tonight to tell us that Lulu and Brendon were voted off. It's ok, NZ, by the time it reaches "us" even I won't remember that fact. The final is just before Christmas, evidently.
The weather remains remarkably mild but the leaves are very autumnal now - with some beautiful scenery treats in unexpected places. A programme on the tele the other day was explaining why some leaves turn red but others don't ... all to do with the aphids evidently. I know that they're awfully slippery when on wet ground, too.
Julie sent me the DVD of the bus commentary in the red zone today. Very sobering but I was cheered to hear them say that it is hoped to have the Theatre Royal up and running again in 2013. I thought I'd heard that it had been demolished - so that was ONE nice surprise, at least.
I've been amazed by the number and duration of fireworks around the area. There have been a number of real "boomers" amongst them and Chai and I have jumped in unison at times. It's a miserable time of year for pets.
The days are certainly drawing in - and the build up for Christmas has begun. How this year has flown!
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