Just got back from our regular Friday night drink at The Fox in nearby Corscombe.  What a friendly pub The Fox is. We feel like we have been regulars there for years. People are so interested in Australia and what we are doing here. Tonight the conversation was all about the scary creatures that apparently inhabit our country.

Off to London tomorrow for my birthday weekend. It used to be a milestone birthday.  It meant that you were eligible for the pension, but not anymore! On Monday we are spending the important day at Elstree studios watching the taping of UK quiz show “Pointless”. Yes, I know Rach – I am officially a bigger nerd than you. Last week by chance I met the presenter, Alexander Armstrong in Sherborne Abbey. It will be interesting to see if he remembers me.  Realistically, probably not!

What an amazingly interesting and rather busy couple of weeks we have had. Jim is still going to the gym and looking after his vege garden as well as indulging a new passion for jigsaw puzzles and fishing in the Nightingale Farm pond.  I have taken myself on some of amazing walks. It is also fun to have the time to enjoy cooking including a batch of scones that I would have been happy to enter in the Royal Melbourne Show.

We will spend Sunday in the City of London but have no plan. We will go back for a longer visit later in the year. If you have a quirky or secret place that you think we would love let us know.  We are very open to suggestions.

By the time I wake up in the morning the election will be over. “Thank God for that.” seems to be the overwhelming view of the people I talk to. It’s the first time in my adult life that I haven’t cast a vote and I feel strangely guilty.