A sneak peek

Pleased with the aftermath of yesterday's reading. Cheery emails with Robin and some nice feedback from folks, and texts from Mark. I need a more restrained day, with only one solicitor's letter to send and no agency work to do. Read another book of Paradise Lost in a cafe, and did some light bits of work. Beth cheery today as she has got a part as Fannie an ugly sister in a panto in Cairo. She will be put up in a five star hotel too, which should be great fun.

Was phoned by Tracey for a pleasant and commiserating conversation - she is a nice woman especially when you bear in mind she is an estate agent. 

Lorraine and I walking to get a sneak peek at our new house and check out the neighbourhood again. It is within five minutes walk of two good boozers, as well as a little parade of shops just around the corner, with a nice very middle class butcher and grocer, a general store, chemist, off-licence, vet, a fish and chip shop, a nasty looking pizza takeaway (the new Ace?) and a bus stop with four or five buses an hour into the town centre.

On the good omens front, noticed that there is a fuchsia bush by the gate (reminding me of my grandmother's garden in Guernsey) and not only is it the same number as my old house in the Twitten, curiously the postcode is almost identical too. Surely with this hardnosed empirical evidence nothing can go wrong.

Walked home across the park, still warm and busy for this time of year.  Lorraine and I feeling hopeful and cheery. Offered some work in London for a couple of weeks too. Home to supper with Betty, and an early night, both Lorraine and I having sore throats and so on. Beth still not fully recovered either.