Slow start on another hot and sticky day but then family shopping expedition to Biggleswade, and trip with Daniel to Bedford for radio control batteries and the cinema for a James Bond film before preparing for the morning on The Lady
We had overnight temperatures of 60degF minimum rising to 81degF maximum today. The barometer rises slightly to 1015. Another hot and sticky today and I’m still quite exhausted from lost sleep earlier in the week and the heat. A slow-starting morning of paper and breakfast before completing most of my domestic paperwork. Then with the family to buy two bags of growers pellets for the ducks and to shop in Biggleswade, enjoying the market town and its more casual air. We went to the model shop but it is closing down and short of stock.
Home for lunch of mince pie (shepherd’s pie) and runner beans before getting out for Daniel all my old radio control gear and cluttering the dining room. I take Daniel to Bedford, to the Happy Kitchener chandlery to see motor boats and purchase a few items. Then to the model shop at Tavistock Street where we get some good advice on batteries and such. Lastly to McDonalds hamburger takeaway and on to the cinema to see ‘Octopussy’ the latest James Bond film, which Daniel missed last weekend.
Home to a setting sun on a fine day and, after dusk at 8.45pm, the full moon lights my way back to the house after putting away the ducks. Today the start of the football season with the F.A. Charity Shield between Cup and League winners of last year Manchester United and Liverpool. Late evening fiddling with the radio control models and gear trying to prepare a boat for the morning.