Saturday was the day we met Son&fiancé's dog for the first time.
She has been with them a few months now but had a planned operation on her leg which has needed very slow healing. Initial barking as expected but very soon it gave way to curiosity and wanting to explore the house garden and us.
Sunday was 25°C at 8am and quickly got a lot hotter.
E and R had their birthday, and we had invited them here for a birthday dinner with M and their dog too.
O was away at Kentwell being his 1970s self and
Daughter was working with The New Cambridge Waits parading the streets in wool clothing in this heat phew! 
We had afternoon birthday cake and an evening meal followed by cornettos, more favourable than a hot dessert.
When M was ready to take R and the dog home E stayed and we called it her moving in day.
Monday our coffee morning was outside for the first time this year. As you no doubt experienced yourself this was such a hot Bank Holiday weekend but thankfully we survived and so did the chocolate goodies people brought when I put them in a cool bag with ice packs and were enjoyed quickly, (would have been rude to let them melt).
E had decided upstairs would be her bedroom and she would use downstairs as her day room to relax in. She reported that being upstairs "the old people being noisy in the garden" didn't disturb her.
Tuesday was busy as I had my monthly blood test booked for 10:30am. Just over a week before neighbourJM announced it was her husband's funeral at 10:45am! That morning we discovered there were serious traffic issues on the Orwell Bridge causing chaos throughout town. The heat was actually making the road break up. We left home earlier than we would normally hoping to get in a bit earlier but the heavy traffic meant we got there exactly on time. Thankfully the very heavy traffic also delayed things at the crematorium. Hubby did a great job of zigzagging the roads and we parked and walked up the cemetery path behind the hearse which had just arrived. It was a lovely service and there were quite a few of us neighbours there showing our support.
Afterwards most of us headed to the wake at The Swan Inn. Unfortunately the room there was very warm and with a low ceiling it was really loud and just after some food came out I got the start of a migraine, so a quick bite cos Hubby had already got a plateful, and we made our apologies and came home.
Daughter popped over in the afternoon mainly to swap her car for mine when Hubby reminded her her's was booked for an MOT.
That evening E came in the lounge to discuss registering with our GP. Things have changed such a lot in recent years and E managed to actually register online. She then reluctantly set an alarm for 8am so she could phone first thing and amazingly got a face to face appointment with a doctor at 10am for a consultation who then made her a second appointment at 4pm for extra tests. She's done all this before living in Dorchester and again in Norwich so please all keep everything crossed some progress can be made this time 🤞🤞🤞
Wednesday Daughter's car failed, got repaired, then passed its MOT and of course was expensive.
Thursday Hubby's old school friendG came over, a social visit and also had a few things for Hubby to fix. Hubby fixed his phone but declared his car sat-nav way past fixing. Unfortunately he didn't bring his laptop and wants Hubby to go to his house to do it (an hour's drive away).
FriendM had been away in Spain until very late Wednesday so we switched our night out to Thursday. The pub must have been very busy feeding people this bank holiday and school holiday as we had a very limited menu to choose from.
Friday and E tried to get ahead of some admin like changing her address online and phone calls. It's quite a tiring brain activity that she managed really well.
So much more stuff for Hubby and I to move and possibly remove so E has space to unpack into and it's a useful job to sort some of our old clutter BUT why oh why does it all look such a mess before it improves?
Enjoy your weekend.
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