Uncontrollable laughter, the best medicine

 After a few unexpected events, sister and her friend didn't arrive until about 5 pm on Monday - no matter, they got here eventually.  We've been having such a lovely time, lots to chat about and catch up on.  We went to Wells yesterday, my favourite little city here, sister and friend have both been before and they like it too.  For lunch we bought hot pasties and went to sit on the benches by the moat around the Bishops Palace (for those who don't know, it's the official home of the bishops of Bath and Wells diocese and is next door to Wells Cathedral).  We ended up in fits of laughter as we quickly acquired a large flock of pigeons as a hopeful audience - especially when one of them suddenly landed on sister's lap and friend was so startled she inadvertently threw her phone right in the middle of the flock (neither pigeons nor phone were hurt!).  We also got the giggles about husband, who sat on the moat wall in front of us, there being only enough room for the three of us girls to sit on the bench.....in view of his sometimes lack of balance and general clumsiness, we all had visions of him toppling backwards into the moat - we'd have been so helpless with laughter if it happened, we couldn't have saved him if we tried.  The moat is fairly shallow so he's unlikely to have drowned if he did fall in - although the shock of the cold water probably wouldn't have done his heart any good.  Thankfully, it didn't happen!  That set us all off reminiscing about times when each of us had had falls in funny situations, we laughed so much we were attracting amused glances from passersby.

The weather has been pretty much perfect and we're really enjoying ourselves, Betty is delighted at having more people in the house, although she's not keen at being left downstairs overnight.  We're off to Minehead today, husband and Betty are staying home.