Sunday ~ 6/8/06

Up late ... lazy brekky ...

Up into Town ... mooched round, bumped into Paul W-S and his other half .. spent a bit of time with them.

Then wandered down to Hayde Park. Mooched round the Serpentine .. sniggering at the rollerbladers going arse-over-tit ... sat on the grass near a volleyball match .. wrote a letter to a friend serving in Iraq .. bimled over to the Rose Garden and spent a pleaseant few hours reading Matthew Reilly's "Seven Ancient Wonders" .. its an action adventure .. sort of like a well written kind of "The Da Vinci Code" ... and listening to the radio on my phone.

Was still sitting there reading as dusk crept up .. just as the radio played Elgar ("Nimrod") and Vaughan Williams .. sitting listening to that on a summers evening in a rose garden was wonderfully elegiac ..

Then lots of strange men started lingering in the gathering gloom, so I pushed off ... went and met Matt for a drink at Victoria.