We have a fairly quiet weekend with David and Laura, living their village life. Laura knows that Peter loves to fix things, and has a short list. Peter and I work together to reglue dining chairs that are becoming wobbly. There are two remotes that are no longer doing what they are supposed to do, one for the heating and one which automatically opens and closes curtains. After a long struggle I finally get the curtains under control, but as at the time of writing, we do not yet have automatic temperature control.
Saturday morning is spent completing the Listener crossword, which Laura and I have been doing together for more than a decade. We work separately, normally comparing results by email when we're done. It was fun to be doing that in the same room. The end game was particularly obscure, and it was Peter who finally found the key that allowed me to solve the puzzle.
Saturday lunch is fish and chips brought in from a shop in Knaresborough. In the evening we prepare a picnic and head into Knaresborough for an outdoor performance of Little Women, a play adapted from the book. It was a very good performance, compensating for the fact that being an outdoor audience in an English summer requires scarves, puffer jackets and beanies. I wisely decided to wear my thermal singlet, by the end of the show I wished I'd worn thermal pants as well. We were sustained with pork pie and a glass or two of wine.
On Sunday we make a leisurely start to the day and head to the Goldsborough village pub for lunch with Laura's friends Roy and Sue. We all return to the cottage for homemade rhubarb and apple crumble for pud, then sit around talking and drinking for the rest of the afternoon - it's quite a shock when the curtains close automatically, signalling that it is already 8pm. But we just open them again and carry on until around 9pm when Roy and Sue go home (which requires them to cross the road to their house opposite), then we clear the table and go to bed.
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