Opera and handbells

 

 It's the Queen's birthday and everybody is going nuts over the World Cup*.  I went to the opera.

It has been an unnecessarily exciting day.  Well, it started last night.**  I was looking forward to a nice weekend's gardening, because it's not supposed to rain and it's not too hot, and I glanced in my diary because I just wanted to check that there weren't any weddings this weekend that I had to ring bells for.  There aren't any wedding rings*** but my first Grange Park opera of the season...