Back to my family – this is my father and mother with my two brothers, Andrew and Philip, at Land’s End. The picture was taken during our last family holiday at Perranporth. Of course at the time I thought it would go on for ever, and I’m sure the others did too. Quite a good shot for a ten-year-old, with the interesting low angle, just before I stepped backwards off the cliff.  Oh no I didn’t.

The plumbers have put on the new taps in the bathroom, and now we are on the brink of completing the current round of house improvements: the carpet men come tomorrow to do the stairs. Yesterday afternoon I spent a couple of hours with Rupert Mallin, Lisa D’Onofrio and Lisa’s husband trying to fix one of the vending machines. We (ie they) eventually got it to work, and we packed it with boxes, ready for transportation to Wells on Friday.

Went to new-look agm at St Luke’s Church in the evening, where Howard was presented with his fine wine for completing lots of years as churchwarden. He also spoke in a debate on whether churches should tithe their income and convinced just about everyone that they should give more than a tithe. Quite an achievement, from the heart. There was also a meal.

Afterwards I fell asleep on the sofa (not unusual) while watching a TV programme about colour films in the 1920s. It would have been nice to have some of our family.