Today was a lovely restful day. I slept in very late, then did some washing in a washing machine that is like
something out of the 1950s! It only uses cold water and you must put the cold
water in, drain it, put fresh water in to rinse the washing, then put the
clothes in the spinner section of the machine to wring them out. It does seem
to get clothes surprisingly clean though!
I then went off to The Grand Hotel to
watch the rugby. When I arrived at the Hotel, the big screen was no longer up
in the Octagonal Piano Room, so I asked if it was being shown anywhere else in
the hotel. It clearly wasn’t, but I was escorted into a huge conference room,
where 5 or 6 people scurried round to get the rugby match playing on the big
screen in there. They moved loads of furniture round, brought me a table and
chairs and offered me a cup of tea etc. I felt a bit embarrassed and told them
it really didn’t matter too much about the rugby, but they still treated me
like royalty. The Rugby World Cup was being heavily publicised by the Hotel, so
maybe they were embarrassed that they hadn’t set it all up. In the end, I was
able to watch the second half of Japan, the host nation sensationally beating
Ireland, one of the favourites in the competition, 19-12. I had some tea and a light
lunch and then I also watched South Africa thrash Namibia 57-3.
As I mentioned yesterday, today's photographs are the remaining ones from yesterday's fabulous Speech Conference in Maskeliya.
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