Lawn Mowing, Clay Pigeon Shooting, and a BBQ

The whole family went to Stroud yesterday morning to collect some kit from the St John HQ, and we also went to visit my sister in law, Angie, to pick up the electric hedge trimmer.
When we got back, I spent the rest of the day cutting the hedges, mowing the lawn, and doing general tidying work around the garden. (some of it involving leaning on a tree inspecting how well my new grass seed was growing!)

This morning I was invited along as an honorary employee of Cotswold Green bus company (I maintain their website) to a company clay pigeon shoot near Cirencester.
It was good fun, but quite difficult, and I managed to shoot 14 out of 25 clays.

This evening we have had a BBQ with Rob and Angie, and the kids have been eating their body weight in burgers and cake!

We are both very tired tonight, so early to bed, as it's back to work in the morning.

By Royal Command !

This blogging lark is more difficult than I thought it would be. If I had time to update it every day, I might stand a change of actually remembering what has happened!

I have decided that this will now be an "occasional blog", which I will update when I have a chance.

The past few weeks have been really busy, both at work and at home. I have also been working non-stop in the garden whenever the weather has been suitable, as well as training for the St John Ambulance regional competitions.

I had a manic day at work today, and hardly stopped all day. One good thing happened though, just before lunch time I set up a new PC and printer for the kitchen staff, and they rewarded me with free lunch and flapjack!

After work today, I was lucky enought to be one of the two ambulance crews who were invited to St John County HQ, to meet various important people, including HRH The Duke of Gloucester and the Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, who had come to look round the headquarters. I firstly had to lead some demonstrations of ambulance equipment for the cadets- who were very quick learners, and then show the guests round the ambulance garage. It went really well, and I had a good discussion with the Lord Lieutenant about the merits of different models of Land Rovers !