The weather forecast suggests that tomorrow will be better than today, so our decision to spend the full five days allowed here looks like paying off. We did our final shopping trip; as planned, we went to the butchers that doesn’t have a shop any more.
It was very efficient; you go to a hatch in the warehouse and ask for what you want and the guy brings it to you, and the pricing was pretty standard, but it still felt very odd.
You need to know what you are looking for – there’s no display – and you can’t see the meat before you buy. I don’t think we’ll bother again, not that we’re likely to be back in Abingdon in the near future.
This afternoon, we put in a solid hour's work on the quiz for the Braidbar Owners’ weekend in September. We know that we’ll be pretty tired after the National, and boating like fury to get from the Thames to the top of the Macc in the time, so it seemed a good idea to get it set up.
Forty questions (four rounds of ten) were generated in that time, so we felt pretty pleased with ourselves. Sheila had put in a bit of time before lunch analysing the previous two years’ results, so we had a reasonable idea of what works; there’ll be no picture round this year, some will be pleased to hear.
Apart from that, we had an easy day of it, reading the paper and attempting the quizzes which are a feature of Saturday in the Independent. Tomorrow, we’ll set off down river; we plan to stop above Day’s Lock, so not a huge amount to do, maybe two hours boating or so.
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