Life!

I popped over to Majorca for a few days at the beginning of the month - flew out on my birthday.  I had a voucher from booking.com so I treated myself to a night at a hotel in Gatwick with an early flight the next day. Lee and Emma came to stay for the week to look after Suki (and Mike!!). Sam met me at the airport and took me to the apartment - and I then had a few hours to myself to shower and settle in before kids came in from school with Sam and Amanda came in from work.  We all went out for a lovely meal at Meson Son Ferrer - I had a fabulous fillet steak, and a calypso coffee to finish.  We had a lovely few days - the weather was a bit mixed but generally sunny.  Amanda had taken a couple of days off work.  We took the kids to cafes with free soft play areas - just had to buy a drink.  We also had a lovely day at the Aquarium in Palma - as well as enjoying the exhibits there was a nice playground for the kids while we had lunch, and a soft play area at the end where we could sit

Aunty Edna died on 6th October.  I couldn't make the funeral as I was in Devon but John emailed a copy of the service booklet . I watched a lot of Rugby (World Cup) - mainly England matches.  It seemed very decadent to be sat watching TV on a Saturday morning. Mike did a half day choral workshop with Chiswick Choir which ended with a short concert.  I walked over to Grove Park (2.4 m) for the concert, and then we went out to eat with 4 other members of the choir (Caroline, Brian, Christine and Mike K) at  Tarantella .  It was nice to eat there at a reasonable time for a change - usually it is after a full concert and we only sit down at around 10.15 pm.   Geoff Willis died on 7th October.  We went to the funeral - which turned out to be a full on Requiem Mass - music by Faure with The Long Day Closes by Arthur Sullivan at the end.  It was a very long service indeed - the music was great but the clergy indulged in lots and lots of words and plainsong.  Also everyone took