Sophie was driving to Leicester today to attend a conference and awards ceremony, and her route to the A14 was affected by the flooding. I suggested she go up to the A43 via Walgrave as there were no reports of flooding along this stretch of the road. Keith and I set out at 7.30am and I learned that the caravans at Billing had been evacuated, and we were due to have some of the residents taking shelter with us at work.
They started arriving mid-morning, and we not only had people, but cats, dogs and a rabbit! There would be nothing on this earth that you could offer me to do what they were doing - bedding down in our squash courts with total strangers for the night!
It has certainly been a trying day at work! Sara was working from home and when I spoke to her on the phone she still sounded ill. Jo was late in, as her daughter had given birth to a baby boy in the early hours of the morning, so I was answering calls with Kathy, trying to file the box office returns, scan the cash sheets to help Sheila and deal with the customer service emails. Phew!
When Keith collected me at 4pm, the car park was full and it was great to head home and relax. Sophie was looking forward to a good dinner, but later told me they were serving goat's cheese for a starter and lamb for a main course, two of the foodstuffs she loathes!
Keith and I dined on leftover chicken and vegetables and managed to get the cats in nice and early. We've had no rain today, but there is more due on Wednesday, the day Sophie and I are planning to go to Oxford!
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