We spent another sunny day mainly hanging out around the house. In the morning, Mum and Tim took the two children to the river down in Pandy, while Sarah and I went into town for a coffee and shop in Waitrose. Fi and Dan arrived after lunch, so with Fern around as well the terrible trio were unstoppable. Getting the paddling pool out was a brainwave and amused them for some time. I worry about Fern sometimes - yet again she wanted to strip off (and Emily naturally wanted to copy her)!
Tim and I went ahead with a planned run, despite the unseasonable heat. We drove to Llanfoist and parked, then ran along the old railway track path. Neither of us had a good run, in the main due to the conditions, but surely not all attributable to that? I turned around after 20 minutes of slog - though in my defence the route was a steady uphill gradient, albeit very shallow. The return was comfortable and quicker and I was able to get some enjoyment out of it, finally.
Back at Mum's, the lighting of the BBQ was accompanied by thunderous rumblings from an ominous cloud front coming from the west. However, we managed to eat all of our meal before having to retire indoors, and it didn't really come to much in the end.
I made the big mistake of staying up to watch a late film, simply because it had a sort of Japanese theme. It was 20 years old and felt very dated, though enjoyable enough, but by the time it finished it was past 1.30am. The latest I have stayed up in many a month.
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