Got up at 6.30 as awake. Had breakfast before walking suki as news more interesting. Bought map updates for tom tom which took over an hour to downloaf but very pkeased with price. £38 for 6 updates over next 18 months. Went to Chiswick after walk in southfields park. Ordered more certificates for middlesex and spent my £10 raffle prize voucher in posh deli on rustic bread, olives and posh quiche. Had bread and olives with Spanish cheese, serano ham and chorizo which I had brought back with me from Majorca. Walked suki in acton park in afternoon and met up with Lee and Emma. Then sorted out compost. Forgot to put gloves on and hit my fingers on side of bin while trying to mix the compost up with hoe. Washed all the food bins out which smelt foul after keeping food in them for 5 months. Made good inroads into paperwork today too. Went later to ringing as not in quarter. Apparently a good one of plain bob minor for Jackie. Didn't go to pub. Had glass of wine at home and uploaded photos of Majorca trip to Picasa. Google plus a nuisance and took me ages to get back to basic Picasa and find sharing options to allow contributors to upload photos. They have messed around with Gmail too and now get small pop up box for replies and compose which is fiddly and difficult to use. Margaret Thatcher died today.
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 ...