Mary to go to her chosen school

A really early start today with a breakfast meeting of Ambassadors at Grasmere House Hotel where members and visitors were given an entertaining illustrated talk by a Quantity and Building Surveyor which involved a "Barbie" doll, a helicopter and a cocktail shaker.  A lively and amusing start to the day.  Sara did her usual stint at the Lord Nelson today and I spent much of today writing up the month end accounts for Complex and sending out the monthly bills to clients – not too much earned this month for a variety of reasons, but principally because  there had been little progress on my biggest case and the failure of my laptop had meant that I had to spend quite a bit of work time this month restoring a lot of the records.  February, however, is often a slow month and so I am not too concerned as we had four very good months prior to that.  Mary received her letter about her secondary school and is delighted to learn that she is going to her chosen school of St. Edmund's Girls’ School and Sports College in Salisbury.  Most of her friends are also going there  so she is very pleased about that.  Of the nine pupils who took the 11+, seven have passed.  A good result.  Mary’s friend, Harriet, is one of those who will be going to South Wilts Grammar School.  Mary was really delighted for her and had a sleep over with her tonight after they attended a school's disco.  This evening Sara and I watched Arthur Millar’s play, “Death of a Salesman” starring Dustin Hoffman on the TV.  I had previously seen the Warren Mitchell version of this play which I preferred.  Not sure how much of it Sara saw as she seemed to be dozing off through most of it. Guess we'll have to see it again sometime.