I’ve got work to do, just emails and general admin and I’m ignoring it. I must get on with it tomorrow. Half a day’s work, if I get down to it. It would have been so straightforward to do some of it, at least, today. But no, I have to take it to the wire.

Anyway, there is one thing I did, which I’m glad of. I have meant to phone our friends Mike and Ann for some time – we’ve spoken a couple of times in the past year, once I phoned and once Ann did. Mike’s memory has been failing for a few years, I’m sorry to say and he didn’t remember my name, but Ann thinks he’ll know me when he sees me. I’m going to check something – a meeting that needs to be rearranged – and may be able to call and see them next week. I’ve left it far longer than I should, I let the long, hot summer drift away from me. I meant to go to London on business and couldn’t face it, but I must deal with that too, at some time. But friends before business, at least in this instance.

One of the bits of admin is, quite simply, sending out the agenda for a meeting. I received a form that other committee members need to fill in, back in the summer. I asked what to do but, as it wasn’t urgent, I was told that it could wait until our November meeting. Haven’t the faintest idea where I safely stashed it. That’s why I haven’t done the agenda yet, this form must go on it, so I have to name it. No idea. I know the room where it is. I may even have filed it in exactly the right place. Stranger things have happened. Ho hum. I used to be so reliable.

I have, however, just put my (required) name badge in my handbag today, for a school tour on Friday afternoon. Not tomorrow Friday, next week. No leaving it until the last minute, if no actual effort is involved.

I had a cheerful morning in the kitchen, putting away all the things I bought in Narberth, stashing them in jars and labelling them. I moved everything to clean underneath and then made celery soup. It’s good to have the Aga back on again. I’d invited Wink in for dinner, so lit the stove in the dining room. It wasn’t especially cold, but not quite warm enough to sit for an hour. There had been heavy rain this morning, let’s hope it moves on before the bonfire parties this weekend.