The past month

It's been a little over a month since I returned. In that time, it has mainly been catching up with friends and family. Lynsey had a barbecue round her place on the Saturday end of July and I didn't leave till Monday morning, going to her Bethnal Green church and then seeing relatives in another part of London before kipping back at her place again. I am coming to the conclusion that DIY barbecue doesn't agree with my constitution; as Hugh-Fearnley Whittinsall chided his charges about the state of their camp cooking, it was ideal barbecue food - burnt on the outside, raw on the inside. Doesn't mean I'll stop partaking in it though. On that Monday morning just before departure, amidst the tranquility I saw from out the window a red, red robin really go bob, bob, bobbing along. Quite an unusual sight these days.
I went up to the Midlands for a week to see another grandfather that Monday. I also went in the middle of August to a county cricket match - Sussex against one of their bogey teams, Warwickshire. The latter racked up a score past 500 and said to the home side, beat that. That was mostly on the Friday my dad and I were there. Suzzex gamely tried to achieve that, with some pyrotechnic cricket on the Saturday, a certain Richard Montgomery notching up 195 runs; an amazing score, but oh so close to that double century. Sussex at least drew the match with half their batting order still intact at the close of the match. The glorious thing about cricket is that it is so laidback; you don't need to worry about missing a few balls and even can fall asleep on a pleasant day without being overly concerned on missing some of the action, since the match is spread across several days.