We - Captain B, Jacks and me - arrived (via train and tube) just on time.
Danny and Gabi came so it was a chance to catch up with them - they hope to get down here for a weekend by the sea at some stage.
I am wondering if we will have another summer full of visitors like last year, or not.
Things I must do today are to shop, return or renew my library books, and study. And Col has his Butterfly Transect to do. He assures me he is just counting them, not actually transecting them.
Thank goodness that the Victorian passion for killing them and pinning them to things has gone out of fashion. What was the impulse that made people want to kill something beautiful as soon as they saw it?
Jacks and I spent the train journey back doing the Crossword in the free newspaper and having a sort of fugue(? if that is the right word) about what happens as you get older. We realised that the news in Christmas cards and letters now tends towards the "and John had his second bypass this year", "and sadly Mary's Alzheimers is worse" area.
And then we sit there realising that we can't remember who John and Mary are.
Aaaarrrgh
Anyway, a great launch and a mini family reunion.
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