And the beat goes on

 It has been a pleasant, if slightly cool, day. Ellie was a bit defiant when it came to going to school. She demanded that we go by car. The Gorse Fox was having none of it. In the end she went in the buggy (but only if the Silver Vixen pushed her). Clearly, grandpa was not flavour of the month. The whinging continued until we were halfway there. Then we heard "Ellie!, Ellie!" called from an intersection. Fifty metres up the path was Bonnie. Bonnie is he friend. They ran to greet each other, hugged, and the World was, once again, in equilibrium.

The day was spent working through the "book". It's pretty much done, in terms of content, but there's a lot of tidying up that needs to happen. For example, there must have been a dozen variations of "Dover" that need to be rationalised. There was "Dover, Kent", "Dover Harbour", Dove St Mary the Virgin", "Dover Charlton" and many others. These needed to be standardised, and what was true of Dover was true of many of the places cited in the text. This isn't a feature of the Gorse Fox being inconsistent, he should add. It is caused by all of the different ways in which locations are identified in source documents.

The Gorse Fox did contact several of the cousins for a bit more information. Hopefully, that will turn up overnight. One cousin, it turns out, lived in Hoddesdon for a couple of years during the 1970s. He was there, in the next estate, to where the Gorse Fox and Silver Vixen lived. Even walking slowly, it would only have taken 15 minutes to get there - had we known!

We collected Ellie from school and she stayed with us for the afternoon. After we had given her dinner, and had our own, we cleared away and then walked Ellie round to their house. As Urban-Cub wasn't scheduled to finish until 19:00, it was easier to get Ellie settled in her own home, rather than have to uproot her once Urban-Cub got back from work.