Sound of Music

We went with friends to Paul and Sheilagh Taylor's house for a "Sound of Music" evening. We all dressed up and sang along to the songs as we watched the film. The film was actually great. Kath had never seen it.
When I was a child and we went to Germany for our holidays we often met Rangheld (a schoolfriend of my mother) and her son Christian. They would stay in our hotel for a few days. The hotel was on the beautiful lake Tegernsee. Rangheld's late husband was Wolfgang Reinhardt. Wolfgang was the son of Max, a very famous film director. Wolfgang bought the film rights of the story of the von Trapp family from Maria von Trapp for $10000. A bargain. Kath and I met Rangheld for lunch when we were staying with my Uncle and Aunt at Ammersee in 1978. She was charming.

Thunderstorm

We had the mother of all thunderstorms last week. It was a Monday evening and the electricity went off at about 6 pm after the most terrific clap of thunder with lightening a split second before. We had no electricity until 1 pm and no telephone until the next afternoon. I found out that lightening had struck a telegraph pole putting the phones out of action. Lightening also struck the surgery next door and was conducted along a metal fence narrowly missing a health visitor. A neighbour went out to the main road in the middle of it and could not see the road. Water was up to the windows of a car stuck on the bend going into Fryston. There was a mini tornado reported 1 mile away and there was photo of this in the local paper. I have never seen such heavy rain and hail. Wow.