Soho Square

After holiday, the first week (well, four days), was what I would call nicely busy. Spent Thursday at a meeting in Soho Square, which was very pretty.




Then the weekend was two very long days at Modified Live at Brands Hatch. While there was some traditional racing, the key events were the drifting championships, which were impressive.

Although more impressive was the gymkhana where drifters took paying passengers around a course of cones in the paddock.

There were some gorgeous paint jobs going on too, very detailed, even going so far as to extent the painted themes inside the engine bay.

Wales was wet.

Monday I took a day-trip to Caerphilly. Contrary to the baking heat in the East of England, Wales was raining. At just four hours each way, one can get a decent meeting done without an overnight stay, which is rather useful.

The Building Center.

Tuesday in the office, and went to The Building Center in the evening. They have a scale model of central London in the lobby there, which is more or less kept up to date - it's worth seeing if you happen to be in the area.

Wednesday and Thursday were in the office - had a panic Thursday morning when couldn't find purse, as I couldn't remember seeing it since Tuesday. Finally found it Thursday evening, but only because Callie and Rio were having a squabble and I dropped things under the sofa that needed rescuing.

Friday was another very long, but thoroughly enjoyable day, at the Henley Regatta until the traffic on the return journey. A 25 mile tailback on the M25, and the M20 closed at Ashford which caused a gridlock meant that I got home at 10.30 pm.

The Regatta was fun, and quintessentially English. It was lovely to see the men making as much of an effort as the ladies in their caps and blazers. And the arms on those rowers - there was a lot of fanning going on that wasn't entirely due to the heat!

Returned to find tribe giving me Extremely Dirty Looks - I think this is due to the fact that they have more or less been abandoned over the last three weeks, with little attention time. Or perhaps it was because I went shopping and failed to bring back treats.

In any case, this morning I was determined to have a lie-in, and managed to not wake up until 11am. Tribe was surprisingly happy with this, as I woke up in furry, purring three-point restraints, which makes me very happy.