After the lovely day we had on Thursday, we woke to grey skies and pretty steady rain. Steve and Gill went off to do some grocery shopping, and I stayed home to blog and deal with some emails and plan for London. Steve and I had planned to go to Tithe Green, to the burial site where we have memorials for both Mum and Dad, but we decided to put it off to see if things would ease up.
It didn’t! It became a stay-at-home day (thank goodness for Wimbledon entertainment), until Rachel and family arrived. Xander has shot up – at 14 he’s the tallest in the family! Nathan is a pro trumpeter and had a gig elsewhere; we had an early dinner, so he could get away, and then the adults sat around the table and drank wine and talked and talked... Rachel teaches in a very disadvantaged area of Newark, and deals a lot with the Traveller culture – both Romany and Irish. She struggles with family unwillingness to commit their kids to any sort of education. It sounds as if she’s an excellent teacher with an impossible job!
A late night, a lot of wine – Saturday will be paced very carefully!
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