Journal entry (thoughts about sports).

Journal entry (party; worries about David).

Journal entry (party time).

Journal entry (Barcelona).

Journal entry (domestic matters: house and garden).

Journal entry (no sale for Mr Pratt).

Journal entry (another centenary).

Journal entry (anniversary/centenary).

It's our 40th wedding anniversary on Sunday. We're spreading the celebrations through the year. They started with the trip to South Africa in February, and we're having a big party in June, when the weather is (hopefully) better. But we thought we ought to do something to mark the date itself, and what we decided to do is to go and stay in a B&B ( Read more... )

The biting cold easterly winds that have dogged us all month have at last moved round to the west and brought milder weather. We spent February in South Africa, thinking that we would escape winter altogether. But winter caught up with us when we came home, and for most of March it has been bitterly cold, with flurries of snow from time to time. At ( Read more... )