Tuesday 14th May

High tension in the Perry household this morning, as it marked the first of the eldest’s AS exams. We were all assembled on time for breakfast, and this morning it ran like clockwork. After waving the kids and Mrs P off, I walked down to the library in the sun. Am I starting to think summer might actually be around the corner?

A quiet morning in the library, but on the plus side there was a selection of chocolate digestives to go with my mid-morning cup of tea. Had one chap in asking how to put punctuation around foreign words, and I gave him a solution, however, typically, I found a better one later on. It’s nice to know I’m still learning as well, and to be honest I’ve a long way to go. On the way back up the road the sun had disappeared! Oh well, it was nice while it lasted.

I lunched with mother then we went to visit the ailing one in hospital. His operation is this week, and to be honest the sooner the better, but the nerves are starting to show. We’d finished chatting about the new news in the last 24 hours, and what he’d had to eat, the food being not at all bad for a hospital, when a couple of his golfing pals turned up, so we all adjourned to the day room for quite a jolly chat. One of the guys has had the operation and is as fit as a fiddle, so he was describing his experience, which was quite entertaining. They don’t have signs up saying it in the hospital, but sometimes laughter is the best medicine.

Got home just ahead of the rain, and rescued the washing off the line. The eldest came in having had a good exam this morning (much to everyone’s relief), but she now has to prepare for three more on Friday. That is going to be a long day. I can’t imagine how her hand will feel after that much writing. The youngest came in and as usual had nothing to report. I knock off the ironing then prepare a chicken and pasta bake, which turns out well. At least everyone cleared their plates, so either they liked it or they were all hungry.

After tea Mrs P and I go for a promenade to get some air and discourse on the day’s events. She worries people will see us and think either a) They’re together! or b) We’re slightly odd as we don’t have a dog and we’re not jogging, like most of the other people we pass.

For those of you following the Olympic Holiday saga, I got a response to one of my emails yesterday and they have done what was requested. So that is a pleasing outcome, it is just a shame the contact process was initially so difficult.

Yours, taking the air.

Jay