I did sleep well, considering. Have a full day today, running my mum around! And although I expected to wake with a headache, what with all the stress and crying yesterday, and the fact that it's thundery showers this morning - oh! as I just glanced up, there's the most fabulous rainbow right outside my window!
Even while the rain is teeming down! - but I
don't have a headache! I'm fine. And William's son in law says a plan is kind of formulating in his mind. He's a lovely guy - reminds me a lot of William, but is quieter - not nearly so exhuberant. In her brief outline of her dad's life that she's doing for the Memorial Service, one of his daughters wrote "Dad never knew a stranger." - which is William exactly. He loved people, and meeting new people, and was always the first to greet anyone new in church or at meetings or anywhere. And invite them home! I remember one Sunday we came home from Church, and he sat in his armchair, and I was pottering around the kitchen making our lunch, when there was a knock on the door. There stood five young men. Strangers to me - but suddenly William was bounding out of the chair like he'd been shot! One of the young men was explaining to me "Sorry - we missed you leaving the church. Your husband invited us for lunch - I hope that's ok."
William had completely forgotten he had invited them!
But I very quickly flung a couple of tins of tomatoes, more garlic, and some flour in the (thank goodness!) pasta sauce I was cooking, put on some frozen veg, and opened jars of bottled apples to make apple crumble - so it was fine. And poor William was so thrilled that it was ok, and he wasn't in trouble, and his lunch invite wasn't a disaster.