Sorry about the rain

I owe an apology to anyone who has got wet this morning - the rain falling in the South East has been caused by me using the hosepipe and sprinkler yesterday evening on our parched back garden, in an attempt to return a little green colour to the grass before my party on Saturday. The weather gods obviously noticed this and decided to help out - see the photo from my office, taken this morning. Oh well, this will save me from having to water the top part of our garden tonight. Every cloud does have a silver lining!

Lara's party weekend

Lara has had a very social weekend. On Friday we decided to make the most of the lovely weather and went for food and met some friends in pubs in Marlow after work, then yesterday Olga and Lara came to Littlewick Green whilst I played cricket. Our match was drawn, and it went on quite late, only finishing at 8pm, and by the time we'd had some drinks afterwards it was 10.30pm before we got home. So this morning she was still pretty tired and overheated, so she had a lazy morning on the sofa, cooled by a wet flannel:

Come on Holland!

I'm cheering on Holland tonight, they're the underdogs, we had a lovely holiday in Holland in June (although we also went to Spain!!), and I've got a Dutch friend who's not very well at the moment, so I'm cheering them on for him.
I've decided to settle on ITV's coverage for the build up, I like Adrian Chiles' cheeky approach, but for the game itself, I'll be watching BBC but switching the commentary to the Radio FiveLive audio, as I like Alan Green's no-nonsense attitude.


PS - oh well, never mind, the better team won, and I'll not blame Howard Webb, if he'd sent off two Dutch players in the first half he'd have been slaughtered for ruining the Final, although the de Jong karate kick probably should have been red..

Girls in the pub

Just a couple of photos from the pub this afternoon, the first is blurry but we love Lara's pose. The second is just a clearer one of the little poseur.

A sunny week

 

 

The weather has been lovely this week, and today was a sunbathing afternoon for the girls, before we headed down to the pub for a meal.

Olga found a website that shows when the ISS is passing overhead particular locations, and this week it's been coming right over Wycombe, so we popped out at the right time to see it last night. It looked like a very fast-moving aeroplane, but without the flashing lights, and of course it was moving much faster than a plane. It's passing overhead twice tonight, so I'm hoping to get a photograph of it. The website is here: http://spaceweather.com/flybys/country.php

Oh, and happy Independence Day to any Yanks reading...