Should have gone for the simple option on Saturday of course, like yesterday's tea and cakes in West End, just ten minutes from home.
Paid £30 in £2 coins.
Still raining.
Kids very unsettled today - tired no doubt after losing an hour of their day.
It's week 18.
Prudence has been and gone as my choice for a name. Connie is now riding high. Constance Faith. or Grace?
Hmmm...
Are we thinking it might be another girl?
Archie was baptised in church yesterday. He's 8. Two sisters - Daisy and Chloe. Nah.
I was reading (Paul's letter to Timothy) and then of course on coffee, as always seems to be the case when there's an 'occasion'.
I'm sure its not just a co-inky dink...
First friendly face in the queue to help out was KR - wonderful to see her again. Looking radiant as ever. And somehow even skinnier. Place at Harvard all secured and TWO scholarships in place.
Told me I should read Eddie Askew
Put me in mind of how inappropriate I feel sometimes. It's laughable.
But how does being in a place of worship stop someone having a stunning figure, enjoying a good giggle and being an outrageous flirt with chocolate cake??
They'd fit in an egg cup, I'm sure. How marvellous...
I've always liked the name too, ever since I wrote War Games, back at Uni.
But it's one of Kink's middle names so I can't really use it again now.

Played tents all afternoon on the bunk beds.
Got nothing else done at all.
That's the second weekend my hoovering hasn't happened.
House is bursting with daffodils - my favourite flowers (except perhaps for gladys??). Atchoo!!

So I'm reading Eddie Askew. A Prayer and a Shouting. Meditations and thoughts.
Truly inspiring stuff.

Sixty quid in cash from Map Sales on Friday gave me enough to take Mum and Dad out for a cream tea in the Forest on Saturday afternoon.
I didn't take them - but I had enough to if it had worked out.

Where exactly is North Gorley, and how do you get there from the Godshill road? I've driven past one of the most hghly recommended tearooms in the Forest several times (and only three weeks ago) and D went there a couple of weeks back for the first time full of enthusiasm.
We couldn't find in anywhere, from the north and got lost in the maze of hamlets round Hyde and Hungerford. (I NEVER get lost!!)
In the pouring rain.
Try the 'main road way' - another five miles.
Hurrah. Now it's familiar. Left at the cattle grid and up the road. next to the pub. The Royal Oak that's it.
Fantastic.
What do you mean - closed?
"We are sorry for any inconvenience, but due to family circumstances we regret that the tea room is closed this weekend."
No facilities for children in the pub.
"Yo could troy the 'ide Garden Sharp, up the Garden cen'errr..."
Only ten minutes away.
Found it easily - loos very nice - at 4.15.
They close at four so we came home.
In the pouring rain.
Mum was great about it but must have been seriously pissed off.
We were out for an hour and a half and drove another 60 miles for nothing.
In the pouring rain.
She liked her card...