Bye bye Joe
Joe left this morning. We had a nice evening last night, despite the heated discussion on Guns and the right to own them… I think we did quite well. 10 days and the subject never got so much as a raised eyebrow and a quick change of subject tactic. Last night however it went further. I guess both sides will never understand the other. One says it is a “right to own guns and your freedom is infringed if that right is not respected”, the other says “who would want to own guns?”. There was even a statistical discussion led by Michelle, but hotly rejected by Joe….
Anyway. Suffice to say we survived the discussion. Our friend Julie who joined us for dinner (a spur of the minute invite when she ran into Michelle outside) was probably a little overwhelmed by it all – not having known Joe for more than 20 minutes before this all started, but she seemed to take it all in her stride.
So today the house is quiet. The washing machine repair man has been and gone – £58 later. I’ve been working on my Amazon.co.uk Wish List and generally just doing a bit of reading of other peoples blogs. It’s quite fun. I’ve found a few that I’ll keep an eye on over the next few weeks, they are:
It’s always nice to have time to just float around the net for awhile. I never had time to do this when I was working full time…
Anyway, I’m off to pick up some groceries for tonight’s supper. Home-made pizza I think – some arugula, fresh mozzarella, prosciutto and maybe some tomatoes or pesto… yum!