I am in London for a few days so posts will be absent until I get back. My clever Helen is giving a paper at a conference for Historians in Minneapolis and is in the air on the way there as I write. She has promised faithfully to text me as soon as she lands as I shall worry.
She will not be back until Monday and James has work in Chambers so the grandparents are swinging into action to look after Florence and Beatrice. We have a timetable that is quite daunting but Grandpa Hugh has checked that the wine cellar (AKA corner of the kitchen) is well stocked and Grandma Felicity has assured me that there is a goodly stock of gin and vodka......
So the next few days will be exhausting but it will be wonderful also to spend time with the family. I shall return next week and will take a look at the pile of books awaiting my attention. I even take a book or two with me when I go to London but I never have time to look at them. When I do I usually keel over but I can never risk not having a book to hand.
Thank goodness I feel better now. Else I would probably end up on a stretcher....
Au Reservoir.
