The oak floor is now stained and ready for use in the restaurant area which we should be using next week, but the door / opening alterations were not yet finished so we were in the bar again. 

It was lovely to see (& hear!) Richard and Andy and especially good to welcome visitor Stuart who sang 2 folk songs and played "Those Who Wait" from Tommy Emmanuel's CD "Only".  Tommy Emmanuel can be heard on YouTube and "Those Who Wait" can be heard at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdt4Y2fNXOI 

All the usual clan (Dick, Alan, Rosie, Steve, John, Karen, Martin, Vicky) did their tunes and songs and we had a few good choruses at the end of the evening.  Martin played & sang Bill Bailey's Cockney Medley - a risky little humorous number parodying various things including Old Kent Road.

Some of us will be at John Wilson's leaving do at Le De Spenser's Arms in Downley tonight and at the White Horse Festival at Grove this weekend.

Good luck to martin who gets his A Level results today!  Enjoy your celebrations!

P.S. Karen is very much enjoying a novel that Dick lent her - "Skinny Dip" by Carl Hiaasen.

P.P.S.  No one has yet solved the quiz set by Alan last week, which he has now given a clue for - see the comment on last week's blog.