Day 146 - Preparations

Due to a bit of a mix-up, I wasn't sure whether or not I had a match this morning. Having heard nothing, I assumed not and so made other plans for the day. I am about to go away for a week with my son, so dedicated the day to a mixture of preparations for our trip as well as spending some time with Mrs L whom we are going to abandon...

Preparations were all that which you expect: selection of team shirts, washing and ironing, cleaning of golf clubs and packing of bags. Every year that we go away, we manage to pack even more efficiently it seems: we shall after all have a washing machine available once we get there.

For our day out, Kathryn and I drove down to Guildford and explored the towpath along the Wey for what proved to be a most entertaining walk.  We walked down in the direction of Shalford until we found a bridge across the river and then headed back towards town.

This is definitely an area to which we shall return - we quite fancy walking all along the river to Godalming and then maybe taking the train back.  It was all very peaceful, with only the sound of the occasional barge chugging by...

Thence home again to watch the final from Wimbledon, which ended up being depressingly one-sided (wish it had been a Murray-Djokovic match-up!) and then the golf from Gullane. The weather at the latter looked better than when I played the course...