Not a particularly pleasant start to today - raining this morning, but still warm. Rio (our great nephew who stayed over last night) was up early and I gave him some breakfast cereal. He is such a polite little boy and always says please and thank you. Thom did his paper round this morning. Later in the day, Sara took Rio back and she and Thom went off to look around Stonehenge with our National Trust cards. I drove to Southampton where I met an old colleague from Friends day, Nigel G, at the Ageas Bowl and we spent the late afternoon and evening together watching Hampshire v. Surrey. Surrey batted first and put on 219 for 9 (quite a slow rate) followed by Hampshire winning by 3 wickets (220 for 7) after Carberry was bowled out in the first over for just 1 (followed in the second over by Vince (also for 1). The bowling was quite slow on both sides and we didn't finish the game until 10.45 p.m. Nigel and I had plenty of time to chat about old times and how the company and former colleagues were now faring. Nigel left me almost immediately after the game had finished as he had pared his car in the public car park about 500 yards away whilst I stopped and had a coffee before returning to my own car which was parked in the members' car park. This is the last limited over game for Hampshire at the Bowl this season unless they have the quarter final of the YB40 competition here. Just a few days of County Championship cricket left. Mikey Roberts was on the scorecard to play today but his place was taken by Ervine. I rang his father, a friend of ours, on my mobile to discover that he was downstairs from us in the Executive Suite. We went downstairs and spent a quarter of an hour or so chatting with Michael who is taking up the offer of a partnership in the Cayman Islands. Very damp weather as we left this evening. Rain predicted over the next few days so my intended trip to Seaton tomorrow may be postponed.
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