Very quickly, because it's so late ...
On Tuesday afternoon P and I delivered Memorial invitations to most of the outerlying parts of Tingrith (I still haven't done the middle of the village, oops) which was really good fun. But it set off what I'm sure must be hayfever; I'd had itchy eyes for a while but it's progressed since Tuesday to a runny, blocked nose and a dry, itchy, sore throat. I asked P this evening if he was alright after having done Tingrith:
'Yes, fine'
'Oh good, it's just it set off my hayfever and I was worried about whether you were okay ... '
'Oh, that must be why I've been feeling - my eyes ... when I was trying to read I couldn't see properly'
- oops. It's almost become a tradition that he helps me do the outerlying parts of Tingrith, and I hope it doesn't put him off for next year! I did apologise, but I don't know whether he heard me. Though, it obviously hadn't been as bad as I was imagining it could have been, otherwise he would probably have made the connection. Yes, I'll console myself with that!
Onto better news: Em, El and I went to the Cabin Pressure recording on Wednesday. Oh my goodness it was AMAZING!!! So, so hilarious, and we spoke to John Finnemore afterwards. The way he speaks is fascinating and he is a true gentleman. He was so unbelievably sweet, and seemed genuinely surprised that we wanted to speak to him. He's so very modest too - on his blog he is (http://johnfinnemore.blogspot.com/) and he is exactly the same in real life. I can't go into detail because I must go to bed, but he obliged when Em asked whether she could be so bold as to ask for a photo, and he really listened to us too, even though he was struggling a bit to hear (as were we; strange, because it wasn't all that busy. All of the teenyboppers who'd been there purely to see Benedict must have left!). Even when another lady butted in and he couldn't hear her very well, he tried his best to answer her questions. [I actually got the impression beforehand that she was there for Benedict, who wasn't able to make it due to total lack of voice, and all of her questions were about Benedict's part. But oh well, his answers were interesting nonetheless.]