Science Museum
Alexander and I had an afternoon out in the science museum, mostly in the basement playing with the boats in the water. We managed to get out just after 12, after a false start where we went back into the house to make sandwiches as I had misinterpretted Alexander's wish to eat lunch in the museum cafe as meaning I was buying it when we got there. A slow walk to the station, stopping a couple of times to watch the men digging up the roads and a lorry emptying a load of steaming tarmac back onto another filled in hole. We got the 12:41 into Victoria (changing at East Croydon) and then waited for a bus to South Ken as a small boy wanted a bus rather than the tube. We had an entertaining 10 minutes or so calling…
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Back to Work
I'm standing on the 08:22 to Victoria on my way to work. This is an hour later than usual, but first day after a long weekend with my brother and his fiancée ; Couldn't face a cold breakfast this morning as it was noticeably cold when I got up at 6 and couldn't summon energy to cook something either. Also wasted home trying to wrestle wireless back into life as it seemed to have got very slow after last night's two and a half hour power cut.
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power cut
I was playing in the spare room upstairs with Alexander having put it back the way it usually is after Michael & Gillian had left. The lights went out and Alexander popped up from under the duvet to tell me off! He was pretty good in the dark (and it was dark because of the cloud and the fact that all the lights in the vicinity had gone off). We carefully made our way downstairs to find a torch and some candles and set to getting some light. A few trips were made to the garage to try and find the proper gas lamp, but it eluded us and the one torch we could find wasn't really up to the job (it being a toy wind-up torch). I did, however, find a bag of very large candles and Tracy had…
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A Hole in the Garden!
I got home this evening to find a barrier across the front door and a hole in the path between the drive and the door (I was able to get in because they'd helpfully laid the paving flags on the grass round the barriers). Turns out the chaps replacing the gas mains couldn't get in touch with us (they claimed) to tell us what they wanted to do, so they just dug the hole anyway. I am pretty unhappy at how this has been done (although I would have consented if anyone had bothered to ask). The drive is covered in mud and the hole isn't that well protected given that I have an inquisitive four year old. Nothing I can do about it now, other than perhaps take a shovel and fill it in. Not only that, there is…
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Re-enactors' Market
Went to the traders fair today, mainly because there was an officer's meeting for Fox's. While I was there I bought a few books from Paul Meekins, a small pottery kettle and some marbles for Alexander. I also had a tour of Warwick because I was driving sans navigator and went left onto the A425 instead of the A423. Still got there in the end though. Saw lots of people I hadn't seen for ages including, Edmund & Emily with little Ed, Paul Meekins, Howard Giles, Charles Kightly, Mutts, and Sophia Sidney. Also saw a fair number of others that I managed to catch up with at Sherwood Forest pretty ; Gist of the officers meeting was simply that we need to do some more recruitment, and to assist that effort we need to sort out some flyers and then…