A really hot day again today with
the sun shining very brightly. Both Sara
and I were up early this morning as we had to take Mary to Fordingbridge for a
last minute rehearsal of her cheerleading routine in preparation for the
national competition at the Bournemouth International Centre tomorrow. We left Mary at the Burgate School with her
colleagues and then drove down to Bournemouth to try and find Sara’s
grandfather’s grave in the huge Charminster Road cemetery (a major junction
back in trolleybus days). We had only a
small plan of the cemetery with an approximate location but when we arrived
there we could see that we had an immense task ahead of us. We spent an hour and a half looking around
that part of the cemetery in the boiling heat without success but whilst
searching I came across an extremely interesting grave – a white one which
stood out from the rest – “John Nelson Darby” the founder of the Plymouth
Brethren. Only one week ago we had been
talking about this man over dinner with my pastoral care tutor in Seend – so I
felt that the search had not been completely worthless although Sara was very
disappointed as I think she had imagined that the search would have been much
easier.
This afternoon I watched the
Ladies’ Singles Wimbledon Final which was won by Marion Bartoli in straight
sets over Sabine Lisicki. Marino was
awesome and won convincingly although Sabine put up a tremendous fight at the
end – but too little too late. It’s BBQ
weather and our barbecue remains out at the moment so we threw a few sausages
and burgers bought from Downton onto it.
I love the smell of BBQs in the summer but could do with as little less
heat. I finished off writing my sermon
for tomorrow which Sara proof-read for me.
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