As I sit here AGAIN looking out on a wet Sunday morning, Golf has been abandoned because it RAINING and I am a fine weather golfer.
This week has been eventful, it started wet and guess what it is finishing on the same note “WET”, don’t you just love English summers. Monday was a bank holiday so rain was expected; we can’t have a day off work without the weather to go with it. We went back to work on Tuesday and the sun came out and stayed out for the whole working week, while I was stuck in a warehouse with no windows, typical.
Thursday saw the arrival of the Twinning association from Herblay, ( http://www.yeovil-twinning.co.uk/herblay/index.html ) they arrived at 4 to 4:30 pm, we were expecting them from 4:30 to 5pm so we were a little surprised to find them settled into the Red House enjoying a cold one, After tidying up the house for a week and stocking up on nice food, I learnt that my guest had not made the journey as she was poorly, my wife was disappointed and relieved at the same time as she cannot speak a word of French, this was to be our first hosting and we didn’t know what to expect, but now we get to eat all the food and the cleaning is already done. “Party on Dude”.
Friday we ( the Twinning Association in Yeovil, http://www.yeovil-twinning.co.uk ) took our guests to Weymouth and Portland, in Weymouth we had a presentation from the Olympic team about the progress made so far regarding the 2012 games, the new road is now open making getting there a lot easier, and the sun shone all day. We were to met the Portland Town Crier at Portland Heights but he didn’t turn up, so we did our own thing, the view from the war memorial looking over Weymouth and the Chisel Bank was spectacular and it was loved by everyone, we went on to Portland Bill for a walkabout and an ice-cream in the sunshine, it was great to wander about without a care in the world, forgetting the hurly-burly we had left at home, and even better I was not the designated drive, we were all on a South West Coach, We got back to Yeovil around 6pm just in time to collect the boss from work, giving us about one and a half hours to get ready for the get together at Grahams house where he had a marquee set up for a bit of a do, we all had to bring so food, my contribution was Cheese’s from Somerset, we all had to bring something different, and what a spread we had, it was great, the food was excellent the company was excellent and the venue was JUST THE JOB, Thank you Graham and Heather, without you it couldn’t of happened. A great night of socialising and party game followed, did I say it was Great — It was, even the Mayor of Yeovil came, he’s always welcome.
Saturday saw us going to the Royal Bath & West Show, and the sun shone all day for us. The last time I went to the Royal Bath & West I was pushing a pushchair some 30 years ago. Thing don’t change much, there were still animals and tractors in large numbers, there were thousands of people making moving around difficult, but the good weather gave an old man lots of scantily dressed females to look at, I know I’m married I shouldn’t be looking, but there were so many of them you had no choice. Once again we went on a South West Coach, the drive there was uneventful except for a fox that decided to race us in the road, we won and the fox dived for cover in the hedge. It never ceases to amaze me what you can see from a coach, you sit so much higher up and you can see over hedges and stuff, none of what I say could be seen from a car, even though there has not been too much rain it is still a Green and Pleasant Land.
Our French visitors left for the ferry today, it was only a short visit, but that was of their choice, I think they enjoyed themselves, I certainly got that impression, There is an outward Twinning trip very soon, to Samarate ( http://www.yeovil-twinning.co.uk/samarate/index.html ), That will be fun for those that are going, not me sadly as I have to work.
In July we see the Germans from Taunusstein, ( http://www.yeovil-twinning.co.uk/taunusstein/index.html ) I am not sure what we have planned for them yet but it will a lot of fun, and I am have time off work to be with them for as much as I can, my wife and I are not hosting, but we will join in with as much as we can, the boss will be at work during the day so I can do what I like “Whoopee”.
On a sad note: some thieving “low life” has stolen the bedding plants from my front garden, how low some people can go, I hope they have something they have put a lot of time and effort into, goes missing. You know how I feel I will say no more.
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