Saints do it again!

A long and fulfilling day today.  I woke up early with Tom going off on his paper round with Sara (who is currently helping him due to his injured arm) and then went off to East Grimstead to attend the BCP Early Morning Eucharist being taken by Elizabeth (whom I haven't seen for some time).  A very small congregation there - just six of us (two of whom, myself included) were from Winterslow.  I returned home and ate the remains of last night's smoked haddock for breakfast.  Sara and Mary went to the All Saint's Parish Eucharist and I went into Salisbury to attend the more evangelical CityChurch service to listen to their in-depth talk on "Gospel Advance".  Quite a contrast to the East Grimstead service - there being at least 100 people there.  I left before coffee (so didn't have time to chat to anybody this morning) to get back in time to pick up Tom to go to Southampton.  Sara and Mary spent the afternoon down at the Recreation Ground where the Winterslow Calendar Girls were putting on a BBQ for friends and families.  Sara's niece and family also attended especially as Tom and I would not be there to support them as we would be at St. Mary's supporting the Saints in their re-scheduled fixture against Birmingham City.  When we arrived in Southampton the weather turned really nasty with thunder, lightning and torrential rain resulting in both of us being absolutely drenched before we got to the stadium.  We had to sit in our seats rather wet watching the torrential rain falling on the pitch.  Saints were superb again beating Birmingham 4-1 to go back up on top of the table.  They look so strong and comfortable in their football and it was pleasing that all four goals were scored by different players (Lambert, Da Prado, Lallana and Chaplow).  We are now looking forward to the cup tie against Preston North End on Wednesday and the away game at Burnley next Saturday.  It's wonderful to think that Saints are now 21st in the whole league - with only the 20 Premier League clubs above them!