The Lords of Bookkeeping

 I think most of the Lords of Bookkeeping are women.  So when we got the invitation to go to the House of Lords for a you beaut bookkeeping celebration for the world's high flyers of bookkeeping, we said yes and viewed it as a culmination of the hard work Debbie has put in over the last 30 yar.  Getting the invitation in February for a trip in June is more like going tomorow for me. I am rusty at travelling abroad but got things going. Airfares, stopovers, accommodation and a nearby cruise all possible, so we went to a travel agent to set it all up.  We paid the first half last week including airfares flying Emirates to London.  This morning I am scrambling to remove Dubai from the itinerary. Our travel plans over the last few years have mostly gone astray.  Good thing we used a travel agent this time so we have someone working on this for us. I daresay the travel agent has a lot more urgencies than us at the moment.

Eerie Calm

 The heat has been topping out in the afternoons so we waited til after lunch to take the waters.  There was this overall grey that merged between water and sky. There were also few rain drops in the two hours we were there but that was it.  The jellies have gone away so hopefully they don't return.  We closed the Summer out by lounging in the shallows to cool off . Overall I think it was a warmer Summer than the last few and drier but without being too hot.  We seem to be using fans and bay breezes rather than the aircon these days. I would say we had the aircon going on less than 10 days and mostly to cool bedrooms before sleep or when there were visitors.