Sunday, sunny and inviting. A slow start with a croissant breakfast as later we have the adventure of going to friends for a Sunday roast. We are meandering through, my partner goes to the shed to use the exercise bike, I am organising a new food and training diary and transferring over my training personal bests. I get a phone call from my youngest daughter who is asking where her usual post breakfast facetime call? I chat and take the phone to the shed so she can talk to her mother. After a short time I am summoned to the facetime call now taking place, apparently my daughter want to talk to us both. She tells us that her partner has asked her to marry him and she has said yes. There is much whooping and congratulations. There is no timetable as yet but she is clear that she wants a sparkly ring.
After a shower I get ready to drive the family to a friends for lunch. We arrive with bottles of drink, a plant and truffles and are shown to the garden where there are bowls of nibbles and drinks await. The sun shines and we settle down to chatting before lunch. It seems there are things talk about as we compare notes on surviving COVID and exchange news. The lunch is fabulous, it is so deliciously luxurious to eat a meal that has been cooked by someone else. A roast followed by an ice cream, fruit and honeycomb sweet and rounded off with cheese, biscuits and grapes. Sitting replete we sip coffee and nibble truffles. We talk hedgehogs, spaniels, voluntary work, and a host of other things, I note that a crescent moon has risen in a clear blue sky. Before we know it six o’clock has come around and its time to go and we take our farewells jokingly pointing out that we would help with the washing up but that we are not allowed inside. I drive the family home and watch Leicester win the FA cup semifinal. Of course I am hooked on The Line of Duty and watch the drama with increasing loss of commitment. Of course the end leaves in the midst of gunshots and blackness. I wrote the blog to the background of Mock the Week and reflect on tomorrows tasks; charity shop run, stepping stone leveling, training and blog. Its all just stuff.
