Today Mary was off with her classmates to Oxenwood - an outdoor centre/former school near Hungerford. She will stay overnight for one night and has an exciting programme ahead of her including a late night walk in the woods along "Spooky Alley". This is a supervised school trip and I know she'll have a great and adventurous time. Together with quite a few other Mums and Dads, Sara and I shivered in the freezing cold waiting for an overdue bus to come and pick her up at the school. Eventually, nearly half an hour late, they set off - most too busy chatting to each other to give a wave to the waiting parents. I think waiting to see them off is more for the parents than the children! Can't wait to find out how Mary found it all. After leaving the school I attended the mid-week Lent Eucharist at St. John's. There were about a dozen of us with four clergy also attending. Cynthia led a very short but contemplative service which I enjoyed. On returning home, Susan called in for coffee with her father from Belfast and Billy and I chatted about my times over in the Province and found we had quite a few Pele and location in common. Rosemary called in at the same time with a telescope she had picked up for her grandson in a jumble sale. Looking at it, it has limited use for any real study of the night sky but should give impressive images of the Moon to a seven-year old. This evening Sara and I attended a masonic white table dinner at Freemason's Hall, Salisbury. It was, unfortunately, quite poorly attended but we did have a really good evening. The meal was pate, chicken chasseur, ice-cream and cheese and biscuits and we had a magician called Timmy who gave us some entertaining David Blaine-style illusions and memory tricks. He was entertaining not only because of his tricks but also his humour - and not a white rabbit in site! Unfortunately, what was otherwise a very enjoyable day was marred at the end by discovering that we cannot get the week we want in the Bahamas this year - largely due to my fault in not securing our week earlier (as we did last time). We now need to consider another destination across the Atlantic to combine with our proposed trip to see Sara's Dad in North Carolina - possibly Mexico or South Carolina! I am really angry with myself especially as Sara is being so irritatingly reasonable!
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Magic!
Today Mary was off with her classmates to Oxenwood - an outdoor centre/former school near Hungerford. She will stay overnight for one night and has an exciting programme ahead of her including a late night walk in the woods along "Spooky Alley". This is a supervised school trip and I know she'll have a great and adventurous time. Together with quite a few other Mums and Dads, Sara and I shivered in the freezing cold waiting for an overdue bus to come and pick her up at the school. Eventually, nearly half an hour late, they set off - most too busy chatting to each other to give a wave to the waiting parents. I think waiting to see them off is more for the parents than the children! Can't wait to find out how Mary found it all. After leaving the school I attended the mid-week Lent Eucharist at St. John's. There were about a dozen of us with four clergy also attending. Cynthia led a very short but contemplative service which I enjoyed. On returning home, Susan called in for coffee with her father from Belfast and Billy and I chatted about my times over in the Province and found we had quite a few Pele and location in common. Rosemary called in at the same time with a telescope she had picked up for her grandson in a jumble sale. Looking at it, it has limited use for any real study of the night sky but should give impressive images of the Moon to a seven-year old. This evening Sara and I attended a masonic white table dinner at Freemason's Hall, Salisbury. It was, unfortunately, quite poorly attended but we did have a really good evening. The meal was pate, chicken chasseur, ice-cream and cheese and biscuits and we had a magician called Timmy who gave us some entertaining David Blaine-style illusions and memory tricks. He was entertaining not only because of his tricks but also his humour - and not a white rabbit in site! Unfortunately, what was otherwise a very enjoyable day was marred at the end by discovering that we cannot get the week we want in the Bahamas this year - largely due to my fault in not securing our week earlier (as we did last time). We now need to consider another destination across the Atlantic to combine with our proposed trip to see Sara's Dad in North Carolina - possibly Mexico or South Carolina! I am really angry with myself especially as Sara is being so irritatingly reasonable!
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