I got up and did a walk/run up to Bury Knowles Park. I love Cuckoo Lane, the tunnels and walls. At the park I did some ‘leg busters’ a routine to strengthen skiing muscles. While there I checked the bus stop for tomorrow when Dad & I go to the Proms. I also found the Headington Shark, which I knew from a card Alan sent years ago. It is a house with a giant shark crashed into the roof.
Ed wanted to see a dentist to look at the tooth he cracked at Natalia’s. He tried calling but couldn’t get in so he walked to the London Road and was able to get into one quickly. He was able to get a temporary fix and will probably only need a crown at home so that is good.
Next we drove to the Victoria Arms for lunch. As soon as we pulled into the parking lot, I remembered it from 1976! Vast lawn down to the river, swans, punts, etc. That is when I first had a Ploughman’s lunch/platter. Dad remembered it too but I don’t think Linda did. I had a smoked fish platter. Linda and I walked a bit down the path from the pub.
After we got back to Jenkins’, Linda and I walked into Oxford (about 2 miles) and she bought a t-shirt from TOAD – The Oxford Artisan Distillery – which we happened along, and a sweatshirt for Dad at the punt hire near Magdalen College.
When we got back, Tiffany and her husband Iain were cooking dinner. It was our first time meeting Iain. He brought haggis from Scotland. Really liked him. Greg and Becky and their kids came was well. Tiffany had a call with someone from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC at 8, then we had haggis, root vegetables, sausage, pork pie and tiramisu for dessert. All delicious. It was Ed’s first time having haggis.
Ed and Alan are leaving for Wolverhampton in the morning for a football game. Dad and I will leave for London around two for Last Night at the Proms.
