7th March - Not a nice day

Completely different day weather-wise. No clear blue sky today but heavy drizzle and we were lucky to have had our little walk yesterday. Also, bad news - I learnt, via an email from his daughter, that Ray has been admitted to Hospital. She doesn't say 'what with' but I've asked her to keep me informed. Plus, of course, Beryl in Hospital with a stroke and we don't know much about that either. David and Brooke though seem a bit better.

In the evening we went to Mansfield National Trust for the monthly meeting and heard a lecture about Belvoir Castle (history and tour). Interesting and Yvonne enjoyed it a lot. I thought it was good, but suffered from having no slides; without which peoples attention was flagging and there were a few 'nodding'. It was a very nice social occasion though and we had nice chats to lots of people. Peter always makes much of us and I had a talk to Gordon - about computers of course.

Jean was very happy to let us park on her drive for the Morecombe trip and we have agreed to provide a taxi down to the coach. We tore-up and folder the raffle-ticket counterfoils again. It has become our regular job. And Yvonne was out front holding the tin for people to pick tickets from, which she was happy to do. She reacts so well to folk in that sort of environment and 'loves abit of social'.

Patchy fog while driving home. And, it was a relief to find that we HAD programmed the video successfully but the timer might be a couple of minutes out. Will create a 'sticky' and check it tomorrow.