Friday 27th July – The Hands family paid a surprise visit today – they stopped for a brief break, and to borrow a travel cot, on their way to London. It was definitely a surprise – they phoned as they were leaving home! Good job we both had the day off otherwise Bess would have been sleeping on floorboards in London. Or maybe Daddy would have been.
It was great to see them –Claire looked blooming with just 4 weeks to go!
They had brought lunch, we made ourselves cobs, and we ate on the patio enjoying the sunshine. Bess was able to test drive a “new” car – courtesy of Bridget and Megan, who kindly donated their car to be kept at our house for Bess to play with. Thanks girls!
Matt was also visiting – stopping over on Friday night, before seeing friends for a BBQ/mountain biking. He has settled into his new architect job, although finds the daily 3 hour commute makes for a long day. His University project work has been recognised as outstanding by the professional Architects Journal, and an image and article about his work was published in the Journal on Thursday. One of the Directors where he is working read the article, and took the trouble to find Matthew and congratulate him on his achievement. I hope to see the article, although I’m not sure whether the “AJ” is readily available at WH Smiths! We are both very proud of Matthews achievements.
Technically we live in Oaktree House, but sadly the tree had to go.
We now have a thriving Oakstump at the front of the house.
