Following a visit to Dr Thompson late Friday afternoon to renew my prescriptions (and ask about my gastric upset), we went to Ditchingham for the parish weekend away. Weather throughout was good, and the children had a great time, as can be seen from the picture taken at the open air swimming pool. Interesting shade of green, but the water quality was assessed as safe by our resident expert from Naiad Aquatics.

Pretty tired for most of the weekend and didn’t enjoy the “formal” aspects of it very much, especially as they were conducted in a chaotic way which was supposed to be democratic but in fact could be described as the dictatorship of the pushy. Felt very out of it by the end. The informal aspects – meals and general chat – were good as always.