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Today was the first day of the Middlesex show, and LBC is doing a lot to promote it, including broadcasting live from its own tent at the show. The weather could not have been better, although the traffic could, but after several hold-ups and an abortive attempt to find sun oil at South Mimms services Paul and I finally got to the showground in Uxbridge at about noon. We dumped our coats and jumpers in the car and headed into the ground.

We stopped by the LBC tent first to say hi to anyone we knew there, and used the nice loos, then mooched around the showground for a couple of hours. Mid afternoon, we went back to LBC to sit down and watched Therese Birch doing a bit of her show while Paul’s mobile merrily sung to itself in the middle of a question. Sorry, London.

We went home by way of Box Hill, where I’ve not been for years, and ended up getting lost in the woods. Went into shutterbug mode. The results are in a gallery.

Box Hill brought back a lot of happy memories. As we lay on the steep slope, heads down, feet up, overlooking Dorking, I thought about how I used to come here with my sister and grandmother (dad’s side) and walk for hours and hours, never getting tired as we ran in and out of the trees. There was a small grave somewhere, of a man who had been buried on his head so he could see the world from a different angle, and we had Tip-Top drinks from small plastic bottles.

Now there are other kids on the hill the same age as my sister and I were back then, and they are doing just what we did. They rolled down the grassy slope through the rabbit droppings that were probably there when I did my own rolling but was too young to care. Today I had looked carefully where the droppings were before laying down, head towards Dorking, feet towards the sky. Things certainly change.

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