Compared to yesterday's fairly quite day, today was very busy. Bev from Morning Star called round at 9.30 a.m. and delivered some newsletters and other at paperwork for Alderbury which I delivered to Ann. I stopped off in Alderbury and had a coffee at the Boundary Café before going on to Alabare Place to undertake my first full session of chaplaincy work with the homeless. I spent three hours there chatting to a number of the drop-in clients, drinking coffee and generally being available to them. I also gave some advice on the telephone to a client of Complex relating to a difficult employment law matter. I also received a possible invite to go on board Queen Elizabeth at some time in the future. I returned home where I gave some further advice to a new Complex client before Richard picked me up in his car to go to the Ageas Bowl to watch Hampshire take on Essex in the T20 competition. A really interesting game with Essex batting first and scoring 182 and Hampshire winning by five wickets when they reached 183 with four balls remaining. However, their total of 183 included 33 extras and 6 penalty runs awarded against Essex for slow bowling. Without those Hampshire would have struggled to beat Essex. Bowling on both sides was poor as was the fielding. Shah scored 68 for Essex and Carberry 54 for Hampshire but otherwise there was no remarkable batting either. Hampshire are now through to the Quarter-Finals but it is still unclear who they will play. Because of the slowness of the game we didn't get back home until 11.30 p.m. It was hard to sleep again tonight as the house remains warm and muggy. We are expecting heavy rain tomorrow but a mugginess remains in the air.
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