After the two minute silence at 11 am I drove mum home to London. Then it was a drive to little brother’s house where his friend and musician, Mark, announced that “I am playing a gig at your place In the spring”. That was news to me…..

Then I figured it out. We have agreed to host a fiftieth birthday party for a friend of brother and she has asked Mark and his band to play. Looking forward to it (I assume we will be invited as it takes place in our barn!). After a quick natter and cuppa it was off to N17 to play with two of the grandchildren. A treat indeed.

And an opportunity to inspect their olive tree which, this year, is smothered with green fruits which are now ripening and turning black. This gives me hope for our small specimens in the courtyard.