Virus is still around... but this was Saturday, week 23

And so another week draws to a close. Our actor son-in-law's theatre group did their second on-line complete show last night - they're amazingly good. They improvise a musical from audience suggestions - in last night's case, the online audience.  They did it in a hall, yards away from one another and behind screens, with SIL introducing and directing the show while doing the vision mixing (if that's the term) to make split screens or to switch from one person to the other. You'd think it was impossible. It's still available to watch online.

Today was a great step - well, let's hope forward - because we took the Edinburgh grandchildren out for lunch. It's the first time we've been in an indoor cafe since lockdown. It wasn't busy and the staff were wearing masks and altogether it felt safe. I think. It was lovely, anyway. We went to Swanston, to the brasserie beside the golf course.

Then we climbed the hill, past the cottages (built in the 1760s) of the village and up a sometimes muddy path. It's been rather wet recently.

The children enjoyed this hollow tree.

Yes, rather muddy, as I said. But fun.

Then we came home for tea and a bit of Brio-ing etc. By this time, sadly, the children had both developed streaming colds. They were very uncomplaining about this but I somewhat fear that we are doomed. There was a lot of sneezing. Still, it was a lovely day.

But there's a distinctly autumnal chill in the air... .

Happy birthday to our lovely son, our youngest child. He was 36 today. Sadly, we didn't see him but we did see a video of his wife and children singing Happy Birthday to him, and Medium Granddaughter blowing out the candles on his cake.