Family time...

...with a dear niece L., arriving in London for a job interview. Jamie wanted us all to have dinner somewhere special, and after some wandering we settled on a French restaurant near the Strand - delicious mussels in cream sauce, lots of talk, a happy evening. We walked back across the Thames to catch the train home in a warm London teeming with people and with almost the feel of a summer night about it...this morning we drove out into Surrey and had a pub lunch, home via Epsom market where L. bought flowers, and then to the station for her to catch the train to have tea with Granny. Back at home I got on with domestic things, letters, work, and the rain suddenly pelted down and it's back to winter again.