A relaxing day training Sam for some water retrieves and then watching the Barbarians give the All Blacks a run for their money before taking Gary with Dan to lunch.
Some time on my computer installation and then at evening at St Mary's Church to see Handel's Messiah by the St Neots Choral Society in the front row by invitation of sponsors Nigel and Lynne Smith
I had a day of relaxation; watching Rugby Union in the afternoon and then going out in the evening. I would have liked a bit of a lay in to start with, but Diana woke me up before 7.00am with my morning tea and got us all going. Della did not want to join me for Sam's run and so I took him out on his own and did some water work. Now that the weather was a lot milder, I thought I should get him back to retrieving from water.
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Daniel had his friend Gary to stay again for the weekend and I took them both along with the family to have our traditional lunch at The Happy Eater. A slow lunch for once and then came my afternoon's rugby match. The cosmopolitan Barbarians team, with their tradition for free-running and attractive rugby, gave the All Blacks a run for their money on their last match of the tour but it was only the England team, last week, that could beat them. Some time with Daniel and my computers trying in vain to get the Laserwriter IINT working with the Amstrad via windows. It should work that way but we could not get it to.
Then the evening at St Mary's Church by the invitation of sponsors Nigel and Lynne Smith listening to and watching a moving performance of Messiah by St Neots Choral Society with specially invited soloists. We could not have been closer to the singers, being in seats numbered one to four and sitting less than a metre in front of them. I was quite taken with the young lady soprano who overcame nerves and a slight cold to deliver a near-perfect performance with " The Lord Redeemeth" in the third part as the highlight. Quickly home after as the skies had cleared, the barometer risen, and the temperature was dropping again after a few mild days.