All changed

I'm writing this in the flat, so you might be asking what I am doing here? Well, as the title suggests everything changed this week. After we got home on Tuesday all things went OK for a day. On Wednesday I collected all the walnuts Juci shelled for us and then at 5pm we trundled over to Margreet and Joop for dinner. They are such lovely people that we had a delightful time with them. And the dinner was delicious too. However, on our return around 9.30pm we got an e-mail from Alwyn that their daughter was taken into hospital three weeks earlier than the baby was due and that they were abandoning their cycle tour to go straight home. They managed to get an air ticket for Thursday for Val and that Alwyn is hoping to get over to us with the bikes first but he was going home straight after. On Thursday Alwyn asked me if I could help with transport and then I spent all morning finding a taxi firm to pick him and the bikes up and transport them to us. I succeeded, so on Friday he appeared around 1pm, looking tired, but happy. He stayed with us there until this morning when we gave him a lift to the airport, so that is why we are here. Just to make sure that things never go without some extra excitement, at the airport there was some security emergency and after dropping Alwyn we had to hang around for a while and nearly ended up paying £10 for parking just because the idiots collected everybody on the apron, which appeared to me about the stupidest tactic you can employ when you think something untoward is going to happen at the airport. Finally we got away and got in, feeling quite relieved.

The undoubtedly happy event of the day was seeing my little Canadian monster across the sees. You may note that I didn't write that I talked to him, because I wasn't even considered worthy of a wave, never mind a chat today. Still, I enjoyed watching him doing a puzzle with his mum and sneaking a peak at the TV at the same time. We are likely to stay until Wednesday now, as I am going geocaching with Andor and Zoli tomorrow and have an Opera performance I'm attending on Tuesday night. In the meantime the painter and decorator is starting on the Kottage front wall, but hopefully he can cope on his own as we left him with a key, so he has access to both electricity and water.