One wedding, one graduation, one guinea-pig and 11 counties in a day.

So on Thursday little sister Ding graduated – again – this time from her Marine Archaeology MA. A lovely if rather rainy day was had by all. Me, Nan and Dong (Ding’s bf. What?) were watching the ceremony in one of the tents as space was limited, Mum and Dad were in the auditorium. There was a funny story about newts. It was pretty good being in the tent as I got to take photos of the screen, which saw what M+D couldn’t – Ding on stage.

Ding 2007 Masters Graduation

Afterwards we had the obligatory strawberries, cream and bucksfizz at the cafeteria, and then back to Ding and Dong’s for coffee before going to the Jolly Sailor (nice pub) for dinner. A good day!

Friday I was back at work and it was one of those days when you think “oo, today looks like a good day!” and by 9.30am a nurse had had a go at me for no reason, I’d had to apologise profusely to a client because we’d unexpectedly ran out of meds, and I’d had to apologise profusely to a referral vet because one of my colleagues had contradicted them to a client. Ace. Suffice to say by 6pm (an hour after I should have left) and after no lunch I was glad it was Friday.

On Saturday I drove for 10.5 hours, travelled through 11 counties, saw the end of a wedding and the whole of a play! Busy day… Me, Mum and Nan started off in Essex at 9.30am, drove through Herts, Beds, Bucks, Northants, Leicestershire (got lost), Warwickshire, Worcestershire to Herefordshire to arrive at 2.15pm for a wedding I was 45 minutes late for (due to satnav deciding not to turn on and us ending up in Leicester) but I got to see and speak to the bride so not so bad! Lovely weather for the wedding. Miss W (now Mrs P presumably) looked lovely with dragonflies on her boddice.

Wedding - Miss W and Mr P

Then back to Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire to see Richard II at the Courtyard – fantastic, best play so far imo. Jonathan Slinger was stellar as Richard II, totally different from when he plays Richard III and very compelling. Then home in the deluge via Oxfordshire and Middlesex among others to fall in at 2am.

Salt’s still with us 😉 He’s still eating and drinking and is getting about the hutch a little better after the steroids, though I need to work out if I can/need to make him an indoor piggy. It’ll make my menagerie two cats (one semi-paralysed), two guinea-pigs (one semi-paralysed), two rats and one rabbit – quite a lot to fit into my little flat. As Dong commented – it’s just as well I don’t work with elephants…

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