I am now back at work after my weeks ‘rest’. Amy should have flown to the USA on Saturday and Lise should have flown home to Denmark last Friday. Mmm, why are they still here I hear you ask? Well, it’s all because of a certain dust cloud or ash plume, as it is also known, blowing into UK airspace and causing all planes to be grounded. Today there have been some European flights. I believe KLM sent a freight plane off to Asia. British airspace is still in lock-down though. Let’s hope that Amy can fly out to see John this week.
Yesterday was very pleasant. The summer has finally arrived and brought with it nice temperatures of 20 degrees, which at one point threatened to get a little too hot. We spent the afternoon in Greenwich Park. The plan was that Amy and Lise took a stroll over there while I went shopping for provisions with Jake and Mia in tow. It didn’t start very well. I arrived at Sainsburg’s only to find that I had left my wallet at home. Then, after driving back and picking up said wallet I got stuck in a nice traffic snarl-up in New Cross. Luckily both Jake and Mia were impeccably behaved. As a treat I bought Jake a water blaster to take to the park.
I dropped the shopping back at home and decided to walk to Greenwich because I didn’t much fancy driving around trying to find a parking spot on such a fine day. Mia at this point was tired and a little cranky. It took until we had scaled the road up to Blackheath for her to calm down and go to sleep. I eventually met up with the girls, sweating and a little achey from carrying the picnic bag, pushing the pram and taking Jake on my shoulders to rest his legs.
We had great fun in the park. Jake ran around soaking the trees with his Barracuda blaster while the grown-ups sipped a nice chilled bottle of rose. Little Mia, our ‘Sweet Mama’ as she is also known sat there chilling out, cooing and smiling at the world.
We had to leave at around 3pm for our next picnic, the one that really marks the start of summer in my mind. the Hilly Fields Neighbours Picnic. The usual suspects were there; Trudi and the boys, Tricia and Keelan. Jake had crashed out in Mia’s pushchair so we left him to sleep while we drank a little more wine. Ahh life is good! Later on Fin, James and little Martha turned up which was a nice addition.
The only thing that marred the evening was that I had to go back to work in the morning. Boo hoo!