Initial plans for the day scuppered by request to go over to Barnes as reserve for QP as Rod stuck in traffic. Rod arrived moments after I had put in £2 for 2 hours parking! QP was for enthronement of Archbishop of Canterbury taking place today. Could 't go round to Patricia's as Raymond taking mid-day service. Mooched about in Barnes indulging in some retail therapy for an hour. Middx committee meeting in the evening. Very cold. Gave notice not standing as ass sec again.
Roving Ringers/Cottage holiday Leominster
28th July - 4th August 2018 Photos Itinerary Mike was based with Rovers at the YHA in Leominster , while Suki and I stayed in a cottage a few minutes drive away - The Owl Barn near Kimbolton. Just a few days after the Barnes Summer Trip we were off on the Roving Ringers week. At the last minute it seemed that no-one was going to be organising the catering, so I ended up taking this on - with the help of a suggested menu and shopping list from Becky, who would be providing the meat. I cooked a vegetable pasta sauce for the first night, and then did a huge online Sainsbury order to be delivered direct to the hostel on the Saturday night. This worked extremely well - and it was certainly much more pleasant to sit in the garden on my computer than pushing two trolleys around a supermarket and then packing/unpacking the car. It was just as well we did it like that as there wasn't much room in the car for shopping once we had got all our stuff and the handbike and