Living the London life again

We managed to get everything packed, the mini fixed, and lead the music for two church services on Sunday. Saying we were a bit busy is putting it mildly. Luckily, Jeff convinced our mini guy to drive 40 minutes to St Andrews to have a look at the mini in the afternoon. Turned out it was some corroded wire from the starter to the alternator or vice versa or something of that nature that only took him 15 minutes to fix! He even refused payment and a bottle of whisky for his troubles! Boy, things could not have taken a better turn... let me tell you. Ruth assures me that the mini is running superbly now. :-) We had a very emotional time at the church services in the morning and evening. In the morning, the church had a really nice send-off which certainly brought out the tears... unfortunately I was then expected to lead a song... now anyone who sings knows that it is just not good to sing when you are all choked up... I managed through though. We followed the evening service with a group trip down to the Old Course Hotel to enjoy some jazz music and crepes. It was a lot of fun; although, once we left I was forced to actually say some goodbyes. :-(

Monday morning we were off. We took the train down to London, where we are staying with our friends Libby and Howard in Surrey. They are the wonderful people who housed us for nearly a year when we lived down here. The week has been full of visiting friends from Bloomsbury, the church we went to here, and from Fairley House, the school I worked at, as well as taking in the old surroundings and food. It's been great, and we still have 3 more days to continue doing the same. :-)