We’re currently on our way to Manchester, from where our flight to Naples is due to depart at 4.15 p.m. We’re in very good time which is just as well because we are still awaiting the results of our PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests, of which more in my next post.
I have managed to do some other activities than packing this week! Lots of swimming at the David Lloyd club, and a bit of socialising. We had dinner at Michael and Lil’s on Saturday evening, and it was so lovely to see them again after almost two years. That evening was the women’s final of the US Open, which unusually had a British finalist, the eighteen year old Emma Raducanu. Although she has been competing since a young age, her rise to the very top ranks of tennis this year has been meteoric, and she had to go through the qualifying rounds. Michael put on the tennis match in the background towards the end of dinner, which was great, because we could watch it while having dessert (delicious plum crumble) and chatting. What a match! Both young women were excellent (the other finalist was 19 year old Leylah Fernandez), however Emma won the day, the first British woman to win a grand slam title since Virginia Wade in 1977 - which I also watched!
We went for a meal to The Ivy with Ally and Cat on Tuesday, a celebration of our last eighteen months together and possibly a farewell, because by the time we return from holiday, or soon thereafter, they will probably be in the process of moving to London. They are currently flat-hunting and are planning to make the move around the beginning of October. We will miss them very much, but we are also excited for them as they start the next phase of their lives together.
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