Sara was up very early this morning – 5.30 a.m and so I was woken up by her with a cup of tea quite early. As is so often the case, the best laid of plans failed and Sara was not ready, as she had hoped, to set off for Spring Harvest at 9.30 a.m. this morning – in fact she didn’t set off until just before midday, Meanwhile, Tom and I, after a cooked breakfast of grilled bacon with sausages (for Tom) and mushrooms for me, set off for the Hilltop Grill where we were to rendezvous with other members of his football team to go, in convoy, to Bishops Waltham. On the one day when we wanted to get off early to Spring Harvest his football team had to have an away fixture at the furthest team away from Winterslow! It took over an hour to get to Bishops Waltham and we lost half the team on the way at the A34/M3 junction with a number of cars heading down the M3 towards Southampton! Eventually we all met up but, unfortunately, Clarendon Juniors were thrashed 5-1 by a much stronger Bishops Waltham side. Tom and I returned to Winterslow and had a lunch of pasta, bacon and prawns before we too set off for Minehead at around 2 p.m. We stopped off at Cynthia’s to see how she was but, unfortunately she is not feeling well enough to make the trip to Minehead today. Hopefully she will be able to join us on Monday. Tom and I arrived at Butlins at around 5 p.m. after a very easy and uneventful journey. The only event of note was Saints’ win away at Leyton Orient (2-0) which when combined with Huddersfield’s draw at Peterborough now puts Southampton in the second automatic promotion spot with two games in hand. What a great result today! Tonight, after a dinner of spaghetti bolognese, I joined the rest of our church group for a very uplifting and emotional session in the Big Top. Sara didn’t join us tonight as she has a thumping headache caused, no doubt, by the long day yesterday and the travelling and stress of all the packing today. Following the Big Top event I joined the rest of the group at Richard and Linda’s chalet for a glass or two of wine and a lovely evening of fellowship. Sara was already in bed when I return and so I made myself a cup of coffee and wrote up this blog.
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