I've actually had a weekend on the south coast to myself ... its a real novelty! It meant I got to have a decent lie in which has been wanted for a long time now!

I also made it into a pub, the first time in many weeks spending an enjoyable night in Fareham playing pool and drink a pint or 3 of Greene King IPA. Then it was crashing at our friends where we all didn't get up that early! Will then realised he had drainage hassles on the extension (using my professional knowledge in the process!) before I left them to go try and tidy up the flat.

This morning I had a mini lie in as it was Church parade (yawn) we had one of our Brownies reading and she did it very well with her own Pompey lilt. We had the most out of the uiformed sections with a whole 2 Brownies!! Other than that there was 1 scout ... one day maybe the church will realise having two main church parades a year will get more Brownies etc. Its only the second church parade I've made (always some how spend the first weekend in the month away!) and despite being dragged to church weekly in my youth i just can't follow the service (so what must it be like for the Brownies?). The vicar likes to be very dramatic which is frankly scary at times when he shouts mid sentence and then goes to whisper ... calm and even tone is good in my book. Mind you Kestrel said that now after 4 years she roughly knows what's going on. Other than our Brownie reading the only other highlight to the service (well other than the end of it) was that I managed to tread back onto my sheep keyring at the start of the intercessions (ie prayers) setting it off bleating! So you had me clenching it in my hand to muffle it while it went on ... so we were all smirking/ giggling for half the intercessions! I hope Dr T appreciates this event as he likes to annoy me with it at times!

Oh and talking of the Dr he was just up the road at yet another rally (he's been to more rallies than his age!) and was probably the oldest in years (but maybe not attitude!) .... one day he might retire from the things .... or is that a silly thing to say? His excuse is that he has to go to the reps meeting as he's alledgely the associate members rep.