I'll start with the low point: our plumbing is completely screwed up. We got the sink unclogged, but now everything else messed up and leaking into our downstair neighbor's flat. Fortunately, our landlords are on it, so it should be fixed in a few days. In the mean time, I'm sharing my flat with two rather large plumbers, who asked if I could make them some tea. So I put the fixings out for them and left. They can make their own tea, thanks.
Yesterday, I went for a nine mile "ramble" with the hiking group from the American Women's Club. I can't remember where we went, but it wasn't as spectacular as the hike that Jim and I took...or as strenuous. It was fun, though, and very muddy, and a few minutes into it we were in a village where a bank robbery had just occured AND where the movie "The Holiday" was recently filmed. In the future, I think I'm going to help out with planning the hikes, which means that I'll do a pre-hike with a couple of other people to check it out and find the pub where we'll eat lunch, etc.
Our meager belongings that we shipped to ourselves are trickling in, so we're feeling more and more settled every day. And we figured out that the scary sound in the night was not a dying cat...it was a fox.
