After meeting with the estate agent with Kaa eyes with my Dad and Brother, I took my Dad back to Essex again, having identified yet more asbestos and mercury in the shed.
(By the way, if anyone wants about 350 knobs for obsolete scientific ovens, a giant lathe bed without the lathe or an extremely dangerous home made band saw without a guard, I'm your girl!
) Still, it was nice to see him and he appears to now be on the mend after his recent accident.
Anyway, after that we had a walk along the canal, past the latest new million pound bridge, which was the company in charge of the latest massive housing development's idea of "something for the community" - which is only of any possible use for the people who will live in their new houses.
Anyway, I digress. We walked to a friend's house who was doing a Marie Curie charity tea party. She has a lovely garden, which we managed to sit in briefly before we all started to freeze.
But it was a really nice afternoon (even if I did have to engage in
small talk, which I'm hopeless at!!
Still, lots of money was raised for charity and the cakes were very fine.