Tuesday 28th May, 2013        1900

An eventful couple of days but little to actually report I am sorry to say.

Last night we went to Pop’o’Fish where we were met by Georgina, Echo and Jane. Although my discount card was of no use there they had booked online and made a decent saving by doing so, it being 52y for two, or about £2.60 per head for the set menu which included two kilogrammes of fish and presumably all the other stuff they ordered for the hotpot after we had finished the fish. Well I say “we” but they very kindly ordered the sizzling prawns for me so I never had much of it. Towards the end we were joined by the girl whose name I didn’t know - and still don’t! Sadly I had departed in such a rush I omitted to take my camera which I blame on the following:

We had arranged a departure time of 1800 which I made, in fact I was ten minutes early, but events saw everything rushed. Firstly Alice, Kevin’s assistant, contacted me to say she wanted me to sign my revised CV and needed to give me my passport back. I was down at the supermarket and said I would be there for a further 20 minutes. That passed and so I informed her I was leaving but perhaps we could do it at ten to two this afternoon. Her reading skilss aren’t up to scratch for she then agreed to meet me at ten this morning. No thank you, I only have one day in the week I don’t have to rise at dawn. Oh, please wait for me. I did. I signed, got given back our passports and was then staggeringly told the FAO would be needing them back in a few days! Why the bloody hell didn’t she just hang on to them?? I predict what will happen now is that at some point it will become “urgent” and one of us won’t be able to be there. Maybe I should construct a short course on nous.

Anyway, to top it, Daisy and Susan had begged a lift from Kevin so he wanted to leave earlier. Fine, I just had to lock the dog in, dump my shopping in the bathroom - depositing my passport on the worktop in the process. On my return later I was horrified to find that for the first time in a while Pooh had opened the bathroom door. To my relief the only casualty was the shampoo which he’d knocked to the deck and the passport was where I had left it. Had he dislodged that and Pepsi decided it was good chewing material then I would have had a serious problem. Lesson learnt.

Today as usual I only had one afternoon class but at lunchtime the monitor sent me pleading messages for the students to be allowed to attend a singing competition to support their classmates taking part. I agreed and went along myself, wondering if it would be possible to sit quietly at the back observing and not get roped in as a judge. I need not have troubled myself for Kevin and I were instantly appointed “distinguished guests” and the judging was left to others. Out of 21 songs there were even a couple I really liked!

That’s the end of my report on a hot evening and I shall bid you goodnight while I cook myself some bangers and mash.