A Rainy Day at Home

Another day at home today. The weather was terrible - heavy rain for most of the day. Neither Tom nor Mary wanted to go to school - Tom was especially tired and so there will be no more midweek evening football matches during term times. Sara went off to Morning Star and John H from lodge came around to hand over some papers to me and discuss arrangements for the lodge meetings this year. Sara came back shortly after he left and we had lunch together - carrot soup and cheese rolls. This afternoon I picked up Mary from school in the blinding rain and we went round to Jan(et)'s for an afternoon birthday tea - tea and scones with some of her friends and neighbors and two boisterous Labradors. Mary and I left early so we would be in when Tom returned home. This evening Richard invited me to the Lion's Head for a birthday drink and Klynn joined us later - having called in to collect his children from Sara only to find that they had already been collected by Susan - and we think we lack good communication in this household! Seems the same all over! A pleasant evening chatting about a multitude of subjects before we left at around 10.30 p.m. Anton gave Richard and me a golfing polo-shirt shirt each advertising the Ryder Cup which starts at Celtic Manor next week. Back home I watched the beginning of the repeated series Longitude - an excellent programme starring Michael Gambon as the clockmaker, John Harrison.