What do you most value in your friends?

"Their continued existence."  (Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22)

And today, revelling in their continued existence, I'm off up to London
to meet some of those very friends.

To have lunch at Wahaca  

 (Just how tasty and nourishing ARE Mexican markets? A lot of canvas, I expect.)

Then, to see a film together...I kind of hope it will be Byzantium and not Ironman 3...
but being with my friends, it doesn't matter that much - 
oh, as long as they don't eat popcorn too near to me.

Happy days!

About priorities - "Things which matter most...

must never be at the mercy of things which matter least," said Goethe.

(only I bet he didn't. I bet he said 'Dinge, die am wichtigsten darf nie zum Spielball von Dingen, die zumindest Matter sein,' or similar)


Look! It's 7 o'clock in the evening and I'm only just writing my blog. I considered my priorities today, on an extraordinarily long To Do List. Here they are:


1. Clear Poppy's fields of the dreaded Ragwort.

Quite pretty but it causes a slow and painful death for horses if they eat it. I've said on another blog that I hate Ground Elder. That's just annoying. Ragwort is a killer. 


2. Get ready for my friends to came round for a garden party.
3. Party! ...without for a second thinking about all the other things I 'should' have been doing. (Success!)

4. Watch Andy Murray losing to Federer. Sigh...


NOW I can write my blog, safe in the knowledge that today, for a change, my priorities were well sorted - protecting my horses, entertaining and enjoying the company of some very dear friends and family, watching the tennis with them (much more fun than watching it on my own) 

And NOW I can get on with my work (deadline tomorrow) - which, in the grand scheme of things, matters least (especially on a Sunday) only perhaps don't mention this to my clients. 

The job will be done and done well, just not FIRST!