Bredonborough Wetness Greyness Morning reading
11.05
Bredonborough.
Wetness! Greyness!
Morning reading I…
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… and new reading…
… in Study Number Three I…
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11.45 Home for lunch and delivery of two adjusted-trousers. My legs are too short, it seems, or perhaps too long. M&S trousers are conventionally 31” or 29”. This is especially unfair to a person with 30” legs. Other manufacturers also sometime fall on the same standard division, as opposed to US manufacturers who usually go 28” - 30” – 32”. My legs are confused.
13.56 As lunch was cooking, and the Minx in need of an afternoon / evening out, I went over to the Bredonborough Arts Centre where the Bredonborough Opera & Dramatic Society’s performance of Singing In The Rain is at the end of a week’s run. Appropriately so, as rain is a constant of this week’s weather, and today it’s pouring down. Only a few seats were left, in the last row at the back, for this afternoon’s show. I politely declined. “Well, you can go out on the pavement and sing it yourself!” Thus the friendly badinage of the post-mature volunteer ticket-person.
Off to tea.
19.42 Tea at
Café Violette, a highly recommended tea-room sited in a modest conservatory, adjoining the Antiques Barn at Long Marston…
… with rain pounding the roof. We cared nothing for this and, one warmed fruit scone with tasty cream later, I was a happy boy I…
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Into the barn to view the pieces...
Not at Mr. Romain’s standard by a long shot, but with some useful and well-priced items.
Then to another Antiques Barn six miles down the road, returning home for two shopping expeditions, a walk around the town, supper and to gentle.
