I took Joe to Gainsborough today to go to a meeting of the newly formed committee to run the West Lindsey Churches Festival.

I spent a lovely couple of hours going round Gainsborough Old Hall very slowly with nobody to explain anything to or to demand that I hurry up and not read every label, and a less lovely half hour in Lidl grabbing the food necessities for the weekend.

In the meantime Joe had collected a huge bundle of papers reporting on the West Lindsey Churches Festival 2007 including statistics showing that Swallow had far more visitors than any other church open on the second weekend of the festival: the aptly named Greetwell had been the most visited of the first weekend. Joe had also received plaudits on the way he personally welcomed everyone who visited Holy Trinity.

I hope he doesn't get even more grandiose plans for next year!