A lovely day

Lovely to see you looking so smashing Cath.
Julian and Louis turned up on Wednesday morning. Louis seemed to recognise me (called me granpa) and realised that he had been here before.
He was full of fun and now I cannot find my door stop to my bedroom door!
Ruth rang up and we agreed to meet her outside the Randolph in Beaumont Street, which we did.
Then it was high tail it to the Trout in Wolvercote for lunch. Once more Louis was the centre of attention as he watched the ducks and swans on the river.(not the one where the two old ladies see the streaker run on,where one lets out a screech and one has a stroke, but the other just couldn't reach) (Sounds like a 2 Ronnie sketch). Anyway to return to my day out, we all had a very nice lunch. with some drinkies, and Louis made friends with other (nearly)2 year olds.
Next step was to go to South Parade (Summertown) on the Banbury Road where Ruth was determined to do some shopping at a classy butchers and returned with a half leg of local spring lamb, plus veggies for our evening dinner. She had previously done some M&S shopping for clothes to replace those spoilt in the house fire and looked sassy, having also lost a few pounds during the stress of the fire. Next stop was Wheatley where they went into Asda and I stayed in the hired car.
Ruth has agreed NOT to join the orchestra for this year's Garsington Opera as she was committed to play in an orchestra in Paris.
But we went to Garsington where they were staying with an old friend (Mrs.Wyn Jones) and we spent the rest of the afternoon in Wyn's garden, looking out for miles to the countryside of Oxfordshire below, with Louis enjoying the freedom of no shoes and pants and was playing on the grass. We spent an hour or two in this lovely garden, while Ruth was trying out the Aga cooker and was preparing our evening meal. As the afternoon closed and the sun eventually went down, we went indoors and joined Wyn for dinner of roast new Berkshire lamb. The best lamb I have ever tasted. We sat and chatted for an hour or two until my lovely Julian drove me home to K/s and back to bed for me.
Needless to say you were were in all our thoughts, Cath and we agreed that after a visit to Ruth's Dad Tom on the morrow and lunch with Ruth's friend Kipper in Chipping Norton on Friday we would all make arrangements to come to Wales before the return journey to France. Lots of love from Dad, Julian, Ruth and Louis.