Fancy an abseil?

I found this photo on the Stroud local history  society's webpage. The building, once the HQ of the Stroud and Swindon building society, was completed in 1991. It's now owned by Ecotricity, the green electricity company, which has been put up for sale recently. 

I've signed up to raise funds for Allsorts (a children and families' charity that I sometimes work for, by abseiling off this building in September. If you'd like to sponsor me, please comment below and I'll give you the link to my just giving page. 

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/helena-petre?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socpledgemobile&utm_content=helena-petre&utm_campaign=post-pledge-mobile&utm_term=w7PpgEGX6

A hot day, today. Steve and I drove to town to look at a postcard-art exhibition which features some of his photos. We did some shopping in the centre, and then I came home and sat out in the garden for ten minutes, which was enough. I could feel my skin burning. Back inside, I read my book in a darkened room, until I finished it (Redhead by the side of the road, by Anne Tyler). 

Walked down to town with some falafels I'd made earlier, and had supper with my friend GS. Then we went to àn old building to see a rehearsed reading of Pammy Michell's play, Refugee Matters. 
The beginning was very good, but unfortunately because of the heat and the packed bodies in the room, I nodded off and only woke at the end. Oops. Will have to go and see it again. It would make a good radio play, I believe.

Then I  went to the pub for tea with friend AK. She's a party animal, I'm not. She TD me a horrible story about a friend who recently died in London. Nobody knew which morgue his body had been taken to, because NHS patients are identified by date of birth as well as name, and the deceased had repeatedly given out false dates of birth...

Night night, folks. Tomorrow will be cooler, I am told.