A day with Mum

Lozza the Offenda doing a three hour Road Safety Awareness Course today, as well as Rhyme Time.

I went up to Edgware listening to podcasts about the General Election tomorrow. To hang out with Mum, who was in good spirits, chatting in the conservatory and drinking tea. We also worked out how to print from the computer. Off in the afternoon to the Waggon and Horses, had some nice food and I drank Guinness and Mum had a cider. We also talked to the guys in the corner, Steve and Paul, who came to Mason's funeral, and one or two others. In the empty pub you can hear Steve and Paul debating many things, including a good twenty minutes on why there was an archbishop of York and an Archbishop of Canterbury. 

Drove back home and had more tea, and more chats. Toby called so we three were able to have a chat. He's now installed in Washington with Romy and Meaty the cat... A long drive there from Toronto -- stopping in Ithaca, New York. The journey almost scuppered as the removal people boxing up stuff, also packed his passport. A five o'clock realisation meant Toby had to unpack and search. Nightmare. 

Home safe, but having to wait 25 mins in Lewes which is a bit galling when you are so close to home. Happy to boof onto the Gold sofa with Lorraine when I got home at nine.

I love this lovely picture Mum painted of a snowy Guernsey as seen in a kind of fish eye style from upstairs from the old family home on La Rue Des Grons.