the past few days have been busy . . .
monday ( flood in the office):
back to work after my hols. not an awful lot of work had been done while i was away due to the fact that the offices had been closed most of the week due to a mammoth flood which had occurred the week-end prior to my trip to cornwall. so it was all fairly hectic. much of the town hall decoration has been ruined, ceilings have come down, computer systems had been disabled - heaps of disruption in fact. it is all well under control now but there is still a lot of catching up to be done. VERY busy!!!
met pauline in the evening at the essex which was nice
tuesday (hallowe'en!!):
it's a sad fact but most people in england are very disapproving of trick-or-treating - and yes i know it is an idea imported by the colonials (lots of people say 'oh well it's an american thing' in a very dismisive way) and of course most of us still haven't forgiven them for the boston tea party (lol!!) but i think it is fun to dress up and call on the neighbours - when the girls were small we always made orange squash, mixed it with food colouring and served it to our visitors and called it stupid names like 'bat's blood' or 'spider juice' - it was just a bit of harmless fun. nowadays there seems to be far too much tsk-tsking going on!! kill joys!!!
wednesday (mass and grass):
all saints mass at school in morning - which was lovely although i found it more than a little emotional!! - cut the grass in the afternoon - i hope it will be the last time this year but as it is still quite mild and wet i suspect it will need at least one more - alex came home while i was mowing and not only finished it off but mended my lawn-mower as well - hoorah!!
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