Continuing our holiday, but now at home, we played another game of Scrabble. Martha started with a bingo (STRIPEs) and later I played MUSETTE so we were one all. No other plays were that great, but still I got 379 and between us a score of 711, which is our highest yet.

Our Edinburgh mini-tournament: 352-250 saw Martha handsomely beat me in the first game, despite having pretty well balanced tiles. The next day I had a more narrow 310-282 victory, also with matched tiles. Our combined average is still just on 600. We need to start bingoing (playing all 7 tiles in a single go) to move beyond this level.