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Today the capsule containing dust and rock from an asteroid Bennu landed in Utah. Copyright NASA  Thinking about words children use and how they describe better than the words we use already. Lawning  More funner Fourses - after all you have elevenses 25th being Ophelia's 8th birthday and I hand over books for her library while having promised their school books - after reading their Ousted Report which commented that the 'range of books' was limited - I have now started ordering them - looks like 5 per year. It gives me great pleasure. Unfortunately some are paperback so won't last so well.

What a complete shambles. from BT to EE don't do it Stick with what you have. Hours of waiting. Then try changing electricity provider. I moved from BG to Octopus but even though my BG account is closed they have not let Octopus know so I will no doubt owe hundreds of pounds as they have no idea how much has been used - I do though from the submitter and it is a lot. Tom having miller sort of problem with Utilities Warehouse who are supposed to fix his phone line.  Service industries and pretty rotten. .

Kathy sent this picture. Incredible thunder storm last night. Right overhead I was singing Speed bonnie boat... Thunder claps rent the air And so they did  The children heard nothing. Then we had a power cut which kept switching off the computer. 

I slept in some ancient room. Ten of us met for dinner. We had a tour of parts of the Ashmolean then lunch at the Turf which was busy and seems to have been greatly expanded over the past 60  years. Then a fascinating guided tour of the botanic garden Magdalen bridge in the background. I popped into the pen shop for a present for Heath a mont tea and an unnecessary scone at the Old Bank then changed in Oriel, a taxi to collect my car and to Cherwell Boathouse for dinner.

Came up to London, staying at the Travel Lodge at Marylebone. Extremely handy for the train though rather noisy at night but as it was so hot not much sleep anyway.  I liked this old sign. Met up with Robert and he found a small Saudi restaurant for lunch delicious. In the evening expecting to go to Selfridge's where the tourists and general hubbub was too much went to Zizzi. Had a breakfast in luxury at the Landmark followed the next day by yogurt and strawberries from MandS. Luxury insect home somewhere perhaps near Warren Street station. Visited Yuta in Earlsfield but took wrong bus so had to resort to Bolt which R had told me about a while back and which we used last night too. Of course had to buy a few. Then by Bolt and tube to Green Park only to find Royal Academy closed so had salad at Fortnum found a suitable present for Jen. Prevented a theft and then alerted an assistant. Walked slowly to Horseguards as now had

Had friends tea in the garden.

Heatwave. Getting jobs done and fraudulent transactions on my account. Our geology expedition was cancelled. Have tried the upside down technique on the cascade picture. The figures which were not painted as figures are rather too large also the tree should be darker but an interesting experiment. The heat continues but there is now a little breeze and we are not getting the worst of it.