Hot Hot Hot

On the hottest day of the year (so far - today is forecast to be hotter still) we found ourselves in London. Though it was certainly rather warmer than we'd prefer, we managed to stay cool by taking advantage of various "air-conditioned environments". The lady above kept a close eye on our spending.

Our main reason for being in town was that we had tickets.

Superb show, well worth seeing, though we'd have preferred to have gone on a night that the M4 wasn't closed, making our journey home rather more of a pain than we'd bargained for.

Sock in the loose

The latest sock is done and set free after a couple of cast offs because the top was too tight. Though it now looks a bit frilly, it's still not ever-so-loose (or maybe it's my fat calves that are the problem?) I have yet to be convinced that the toe up method is the one for me!

Expect an imminent bout of SSS (second sock syndrome)
 

Fairford Sunday

Maggie mentioned the Fairford Air Tattoo in her weekend blog entries and we both hoped for a free air show at some point during the weekend. Well, this was it. At around 4.45pm, Sunday afternoon, there was a loud rumble and one solitary plane flew over. I suppose the wind was in the "other" direction and the residents of Oxford might have seen the show?

Yeah, right.....

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Shopping the world

A parcel arrived from Amazon.com for Edward this morning, containing something he'd ordered last week.

Unable to find what he wanted on the amazon.co.uk site, he placed his order through amazon.com.

The box arrived this morning, about 12 x 9 x 3". Inside the box was a similarly sized piece of card, shrinkwrapped in plastic. Sure enough, the bill is there, addressed "Lexington Kentucky", but oddly, the packet is postmarked "Deutsche Post".

There, in the middle of the card was his purchase - a single CD in a cardboard sleeve...

...with a "Made in Holland" sticker on it.