Home working day; started sharp and front loaded the day. Plan was for a former colleague to come over for lunch.

I remember thinking from a long way back that a lot of what I was doing / going through wasn't stuff you could look up on the internet, so I'd been after a beer / coffee / whatever for a while.

He came over for lunch; pork and cider casserole; we talked for a long time; and I think both of us got a lot out of it. So a good couple of hours.

Then biked around getting the boys picked up; not done that for a few weeks. They were in good spirits; joyful, loud, boisterous. Makes the place so much more lived in.

And a low key evening; chatted a lot later on. She's coming out of the daze a little, but slowly. And it seems apparent there further merging; a definite common goal / outlook being forged.