Bank holiday weekend frivolities

On Friday night, we watched City of God which it turns out is very good indeed. It is an extraordinarily powerful film, and, dare I say it, some of the images of the shanty town in which the town was set seemed, at least in flavour, to bare a passing resemblance to Florencia de Mora. So yes, it was indeed a fine film.

Yesterday a happy band of us descended on the beach at Budleigh Salterton, since in our own impatient minds, summer must surely have begun. In the event, the weather was reasonably good, and very sunny at some points. Highlights of the day included an expedition byLHD, me, Tim and John to the other end of the beach which involved fording the surprisingly deep and rather swift mouth of the River Otter, the brilliant lunch compiled by Fliss, Lucy and James, and of course, throwing stones (and occasionally rocks) at one another. Simple pleasures.

Yesterday evening we had an excellent barbeque (the first of the year, and no doubt, the first of many) in our lovely little garden, as the sun sank and the sky darkened. Ahhhhh.

Today will be marked by a significant logisitical challenge. Its the Great West Run today which basically means that unless you are silly enough to take part (although of course I respect those who do!) its very difficult to get anywhere in Exeter. It so happens that all available routes to Belmont chapel for the morning service must pass roads which are part of the race course. Last year I failed to get there from halls, after trying various routes for about half an hour; this year I'm going to give it my best shot - you never know, I might come across someone I know doing the race anyway...