To: Philip Porkridge, Chief Accountant, Stoney Grove Trust
From: Simon Tinsley, Executive Director, Stoney Grove Trust

Thank God you wrote - meet me at five. If I have to be pleasant any more I'll shoot myself.

They're all here. Everywhere you turn there is some relative of mine, or Ann's, popping out of the woodwork and commenting on what a lovely colour the curtains are, or asking if we have much trouble keeping it warm in the winter. Ann's cousins are pretty fit, but Dad is monopolizing one and the other spends her time in the bedroom with her boyfriend. Still, I suppose I'm past all that now, married man and all.

Actually I'm not nervous, nor have I got cold feet. OK, I'm dreading the actual day, but the thought of being married to Ann and all these people leaving and it being back to normal is the only thing keeping me going!

Just remembered. We can't go to the Idiot because Amy is staying there, and I don't want to be seen. I'll find an excuse to pop out, and you pick me up on the road by the entrance. We'll go to the Snowdrop in East Imbiben.

Better make it 4.30.

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