Sir Walter Raleigh’s Desk where he wrote “The History of the World” while imprisoned in the White Tower (of London)

We are at home now. It only took 4.5 hours to journey from South London. I have spent most of the day putting everything back into it place until next time and cleaning and sterilising all of the water equipment. There is still much to do tomorrow.

I have brought a bad cold back with me so am sneezing and sniffing a lot. It’s that time of year really, everyone catches some sort of throat, nose or lung infection between now and New Year. At least for me it won’t be flu as I am due to have an injection against it next week.

The car goes into the garage on Thursday to have the dent in the roof repaired. Someone threw a rock, and I do mean rock, up in the air in a street not too far away and dented my car roof. It’s about 3 mm deep and 35 mm across. There were a lot of people about but most were school children and they are the chief suspects. I can’t prove anything of course so I have lost a lot of money in excess payment on my insurance claim and then next year my premium will increase due to having made a claim. I will also be without a car for a few days. You have to move on don’t you? No good getting angry, I would be the only one suffering.

There were two new books on the door mat when we got back. ‘The lodger. Shakespeare on Silver Street” is one and “Contested Will. Who Wrote Shakespeare” is the other. I have started to read the first one but yet again it is a lot of detail and not much entertainment. Reading it gives me a feeling of academic study rather than pleasure. The more books I read on the subject of Shakespeare the more I feel my own rejected book isn’t too bad. I suppose it is some kind of schadenfreude, it makes me feel a little less incompetent.

As I have a good internet connection again I can post a picture or two now.

The Globe Theatre from the millennium bridge.