Another weather record

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It has been another warm, hot and sunny week, until the weekend arrived. We had rain yesterday, taking the recored longest period without meaningful rain to 47 days, and a little more this morning, but today has been noticeable for its cooler temperature and wind.

It has generally been a quiet week. Nicky had her usual three church events, and life group on Wednesday evening. She has been dealing with the upsetting email she received last week about the prison outreach volunteer work, but has made progress in a positive way. She has also managed to squeeze some reading in-between the house chores. Her foot still isn’t back to normal and has started to be concerning again this weekend, so we have had a quick trip down to the White Cross clinic this evening and she has been given some more antibiotics.

My work week has been quiet, with just one on-site job and a little remote support. I spent most of Wednesday building a Keynote presentation with Jancis, and had a good discussion at Deep and Meaningful on Thursday. I have also spent quite a bit of time reading, but didn’t especially enjoy the book - Dominion by CJ Sansom.

We had a late breakfast yesterday and in the afternoon Nicky popped over to Stella’s for Scrabble and a catch up. I have got back to scanning our photographs again and made some good progress. We watched the Peter Jackson version of King Kong last night and quite enjoyed it.

Nicky was at church this morning and Jancis came over this afternoon for some technical support. Nicky made two lots of scones for tea which were very enjoyable.

On the house front, our Consent Application went in on Monday. We are hoping the approval will come through in mid-March and Burt can get started.


Take care, Rick

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Moira and Peter said…
You know how to leave your readers hanging - upsetting email, outreach work???

Please explain!

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