Unusual sociability, continued

I went for lunch with a relative of the Gentleman Friend, the sort of person who cares so hard that he doesn’t let himself feel it. His particular obsession is wildlife, and he is better travelled to see it than anyone else I know. It was a pleasant lunch; he had some advice about New […]

Boxes, boxes, boxes

Our boxes arrived yesterday, hurrah. Unopened, barely touched, as usual my fretting and fuming during the dispatch period was for nothing. Anyhow, we spent all of Monday first unpacking and then repacking our belongings, discarding things along the way where possible. One box which had been left here in London had contained a camel hair […]

Milk to China

Our boxes have arrived on British shores and are now making their way through customs. I went on the website to pay the final delivery fee and my attention was caught by the little advertisement for sending baby milk to China. Sensible, I suppose. Does make one think of how there are so many more […]

Hamilton woes

My birthday present to the GF this year is (or will be next month) a pair of tickets to Hamilton as he is a great fan and has virtually memorised the entire show. I was fortunate to find two quite good seats on Ticketmaster and was full of praise for their anti-scalping measure, ie making […]

Self-preservation

I have another cold. Not a bad one, but enough that I’ve lost my appetite, feel unwell, couldn’t sleep last night, feel unwell, and have had a bad headache all day. I did manage to convince myself for a short preiod that I was going into toxic shock, rather than a mere cold, which suggests […]

Brexit march

I wish I could have gone to the Brexit march in Central London today. It’s something I feel very strongly about, and also entirely disempowered about, so it would have been good to have made that small gesture. But today was the day that someone’s ashes were to be confined to the ground, in the […]

Football

I watched (part of) my first World Cup match today. The Gentleman Friend is very keen on the sport, though in recent years has been thwarted by important matches playing only on paid sport channels, and a dislike for pubs and bars. But the World Cup is playing everywhere and tonight was the first England […]

Your clothes

My mother’s birthdays are always sad. She had mixed feelings about them; she was excited, they never lived up to the anticipation. The birthday parties required immense preparations, great expense and a lot of stress for everyone, but were something I had to endure for her sake, though I was less kind than I could […]

Cambridge suburbs

I went to my accountant today, who has rooms between Milton and Cambridge. I hadn’t known that a new train station has opened only 20 minutes away, so got a return to the main station and then walked 45 minutes each way. Not that I minded, as it was a pleasant walk, especially on the […]