Retirement with No Problem

Lots of activity in the galley today.  It will definately be nice to have a bit more working space next year, although I have got used to working in a 24 inch square work top!  Next year I am promised three times that amount, I won’t know myself!

Well the Xmas puds are steaming away on the stove, and are beginning to smell georgous.  Hopefully I will resist eating them before the special day.  Vic kept out of the way and checked the bank of batteries, just topping needed where necessary.  He popped in to do a final stir and add his wish for the year to come, wonder what it was?

Had just sat down with a cuppa after finishing, when Colin came by. ”Yes I think it is about 5 years Sue” says he.  I have never met Colin in ‘real life’ before.  5 years of chatting on the internet all the way back to the days of ‘Screaming Net’, one of the very first cheap dial up ISPs.  I remember sometimes having to dial over 100 times to get a connection to Screaming Net….. Not like nowadays for sure.

Colin invited us to meet up with his son who was playing football for a Milton Keynes Youth Team, New City Saints, at an away game not too far away.  Lucy was invited too, and we all piled into Colin’s car for the unexpected trip.  The team won 6-1, so a good day for The Saints today. 

Lucy enjoyed herself too.  After a whisper in the ear from me that running after footballs today was definately not on the cards, she sat down by the touchline and actually looked as if she was enjoying the game too!

After the game we all set off again in the car, and were in for yet another surprise!  “Here is the bridge where the Great Train Robbery took place” said Colin…. WOW!  Colin had taken a detour on our return trip to show us where it all took place.  Saw the embankment where the robbers passed all the bags down forming a chain to do so, it was amazing to be just right there!

A pic of Bridego Bridge taken quite some time ago.  Today the road is wider, and there is much more traffic now.  But the bridge looked the same today as it does in this pic.  If someone had told me when I woke up this morning that today I would be watching a football match and would travel under the Bridego Bridge, the scene of the Great Train Robbery I would turned over in disbelief and gone back to sleep!

Great day Colin, thanks, and hope to see you again soon.