{"id":5784,"date":"2021-11-16T13:25:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T12:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=5784"},"modified":"2021-11-16T13:25:43","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T12:25:43","slug":"saw-amy-and-oliver-then-andrew-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=5784","title":{"rendered":"Saw Amy and Oliver, then Andrew too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Amy prepares lunch at Swan Close<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday Dot spent all morning preparing for the visit of Sue and Roger, who arrived about noon. Weather wasn’t cold, but not very exciting either.\u00a0 Dot did quite a complicated but very nice meal \u2013 fish curry, among other things \u2013 and we had excellent conversation. After we told them about Maryta, we found they had been told the same things by someone completely different \u2013 we think the GP that the Hendersons know. Small world! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bridget came to clean before the Eagles went and did the washing up! Great planning, or it would have been if we\u2019d planned it. The TV went wrong in the evening: we could watch things like Netflix but not regular terrestrial TV, except on the direct channel which ignores the BT box. Means we couldn’t arrange recording of anything, but it seemed the box was recording, because the red light came on. We managed to catch Dalgleish<\/em> live.
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Next day I fixed the TV box after going online and doing a factory reset. All seems to be well. Mixed weather \u2013 quite a bit of rain, but I managed to get in a walk to the Rosary while Dot was visiting a school at Long Stratton in the afternoon. I’ve also got the outline of the Alternative Carol Service prepared. Had our 5.30 drinks with Mark, Des and Chris. Lot of political talk but no blows struck. After HF meal watched England beat Albania 5-0 and then the second episode of\u00a0Dalgleish<\/em>. Excellent.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday was very grey at first with drizzle, becoming lighter and drier as we drove to Aylesbury. Stopped at Caxton GIbbet (tight parking) for tea\/coffee, and swapped drivers. I drove the rest of the way. Arrived slightly early and had lunch with Amy and Oliver, who has finished his quarantine and is returning to Warwick tomorrow. (He didn\u2019t get Covid). Vicky and Matt arrived afterwards, and we had a chat. Left about 4.20pm and drove pretty much in the dark to our hotel in Baginton, arriving around 5.45. Checked in and had pre-booked meal at 6.30pm. Very slow service but friendly. Food quite good. Watched film –\u00a0Fallen Angel<\/em> \u2013 an action thriller that was pretty good of its kind.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday was Remembrance Sunday. Had a rather too large breakfast, including scrambled eggs. After breakfast (extra \u00a315.98) we drove to Minster Lodge after avoiding traffic\/parking jam outside Memorial Park, where there was clearly going to be a memorial service, as I should have realised.\u00a0Andrew seemed pretty good: we showed him how to use his DVD player, but I doubt the information stuck. We had to take a lateral flow test, but it wasn\u2019t very rigorous. Drove home, stopping at Cambridge Services Costa for snack. Arrived home about 3.30, feeling very tired.\u00a0\u00a0Watched last episode of\u00a0Angela Black<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 not bad, but could have been better.\u00a0\u00a0David FTd: he has had confirmation of his residency and is now planning to get other things, like library card, driving licence etc. Another greyish day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday saw more pretty nondescript weather. Dot went to a couple of schools in the morning \u2013 Tasburgh and Saxlingham \u2013 and got back late for lunch. I cleared up quite a lot of leaves, but there are still a lot on the ground. I rearranged the Christmas Cake and Compline because Claire, rather predictably, couldn\u2019t make the arranged date. In the evening we watched England beat San Marino 10-0 and earlier watched Lewis Hamilton drive superbly to win the S\u00e3o Paulo Grand Prix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Thursday Dot spent all morning preparing for the visit of Sue and Roger, who arrived about noon. Weather wasn’t cold, but not very exciting either.\u00a0 Dot did quite a complicated but very nice meal \u2013 fish curry, among other things \u2013 and we had excellent conversation. After we told them about Maryta, we found … Continue reading Saw Amy and Oliver, then Andrew too<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5786,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784\/revisions\/5786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}