15/9/2005

Dear Dennis,
I must have missed your note about your third holiday this year - the last @mail I rmember from you was 1st August.

We trust you had a fine time and returned suitably relaxed and de-stressed. Thanks for speaking with Saul today on the telephone - I think it's important that he gets to know his "uncle" Dennis, don't you? You'll be needed to keep him grounded in this world and not fly off on tangents like his old dad. Although hopefully one day you'll explain the virtues of a good solid shed and cooking sherry.

I spent this past weekend at "Father and Son" cub camp in the rain and under canvas (all meals cooked on wood fires) Bacon and eggs every morning at 7:30, light lunch and then big cooked dinner every evening (not easy in the pelting rain) it was tiring but very enjoyable and we bonded whilst poking the fire with sharp sticks and with our fried chicken, peas and mash rapidly turning to soup in the rain.

Went to the Doc on Tuesday with my knee. He told me to do more exercise but then fell silent when I how I was supposed to exercise with my dodgy knee. As I got up to leave he told me helpfully that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and how he enjoyed curry for breakfast. I think he must have mistaken me for someone else and I smiled while closing his door quietly on my way out.
D.