Day 344 - A Lucky Day

I spent all day in London today; our monthly Ofwat Board Meeting kept me there until late afternoon after which I decided to walk along Oxford Street from the office in Bloomsbury.  I took the opportunity to pop into John Lewis and saw a scarf that took my fancy: on presenting my card for payment at the till, I was then delighted to discover that it had been marked down by 50%: result!

For some reason, everything worked: I then took the tube from Bond Street back to Waterloo and arrived at the correct platform to catch the Cobham train just 1 minute after its planned departure - and it was still at the station, running a few minutes late. This was great news as I no longer had to hang around for the half an hour that I had feared. It's always nice when things work out in your favour like that.

Back home in plenty of time to work on tomorrow's Friday e-mail (only 2 more to go!) before getting ready for the evening. Diana had kindly invited me to supper tonight. It was to be the occasion where she, as current Lady Captain, passed on to Sally, as the incoming one, her embroidered lady Captain's sweater - and very nice it looked too.

Ann, the new Vice Captain, was there and Anna, the immediate Past Captain, so we were encircled by Captains of various ranks.  Fortunately, available partners were also invited and a very pleasant evening was had by all.  Kieran and I though are still on our Dry January sentences and were on best behaviour.

And I only complained about there being no tradition of a Burhill Men's Captain's jumper once...or was it twice?