It's all go...

On Friday I went to London to meet a friend. We had a fantastic time visiting the Museum of London at St Pauls. Then left to my own devices a little later on I decided to be a real tourist crossing the Millennium Bridge and back again and going to St Paul's Cathedral. As it was such a fabulous afternoon I decided in a moment of madness to climb all 530 steps to the top vantage point of the Cathedral - the Golden Gallery. This was a real workout!! But the view was breathtaking and I really enjoyed the feeling of serenity from this lofty perspective. I really needed a big sit down to recover so sat listening to the 30 strong choir. This preceded the evensong service to which I decided to stay. The service was hard to follow as it was in Latin!! Nonetheless, it felt majestic and was a peaceful setting. Suitably refreshed I went to Oxford Street to buy a 40th birthday present and bumped into Dale Winton in Selfridges. Alas, he didn't recognise me...

Yesterday, we also did something that we haven't done for a long while. We had people over in the evening. Neither of us could remember the last time that we had done something like this. We had a great evening playing the 80's edition of Trivial Pursuits.

I went to church this morning at the first service and was really blessed by the sermon. I found it very moving and challenging. It centred on Joshua 1 and the key verse was verse 9:

"Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go". Excellent encouragement during this time.

We then went out for a friend's 40th birthday to an exclusive listed Hotel for a 3 course meal. I now need to run up all the 530 steps about 4 times to burn off the calories...