Margaret and I had great fun playing tennis this morning. Well matched but she had the edge on me as she's a good badiminton player. The children both wanted to go tonight so we dragged Spook along and joined the club - £100 for the year. We can play anytime there's a court free and Finn checked out that we could even play at midnight. I showed Spook what I could do and he took great pleasure in using a few shinty maneouvres against me, to great effect. One or two more lessons required and then I'll sort the smug Highlander out. Megs hand/eye co-ordination has definitley improved and her baseball swipe lessened. She's a noisy player, like her mother, with lot's of squealing, and really enjoys it.
Checked out flight prices home and will book something by the end of the week. (I'm coming home towards the end of January for two weeks to catch up with family - can't wait). 3 travel agents, all friendly people. I found my self darting sneakily between them to get comparative prices. Two are straight across the road from each other, so I told the first girl that I would need to check prices across the road too. She said (her sons in Meg's class), bring the quote back to me and I'll see if I can match it. And when the really nice girl across the road who happened to be called Megan, offered me a better deal I'm embarrassed to say that I went home and changed my clothes so that she wouldn't recognise me when I took her quote back to the first girl. Ran sweating back down the road and dived into the first shop, left her a copy to ponder and raced back up the road in time to get Finns skateboard to school for his lesson.
An elaborate display which demonstrates that I just need a job.
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