It’s gone very quiet as far as I’m concerned, although the accountant is talking quite noisily to Dot in the kitchen at the moment. For Dot herself, life is very hectic. She went to Gateshead with Barbara on Friday (I took her to Scole), and their Saturday session in The Sage for the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival – following a comfortable night in the Ramada hotel – went pretty well.

They arrived back around 10pm on Saturday, and on Sunday (after a rest instead of church) she was off again in early afternoon to pick up Barbara for a drive down to Islington, where they stayed at the same Travelodge we had used before our Treyn holiday to Switzerland a few years ago. Just inside the Congestion Zone, so that was £10 to pay for the Monday, plus £15 for the parking. I paid the CC online, and it was very straightforward.

Dot and Barbara then took their P4C to Vittoria School, which was quite hard to find because it was more or less barricaded in. Very impressive, however, and the session again went well. They then drove home, and Dot arrived about 6pm, feeling a “little” tired. I hadn’t done very much over the weekend: the weather was not good, and my energy was not high, for some reason. But I had taken church money into the city on Monday morning when the sun came out, and I had not reached the top of Prince of Wales Road before it started raining.

Since then Dot has been working hard on various upcoming projects, almost without a break, so I am looking after the cleaning and cooking. Fortunately Judy supplied soup for the Tuesday Group last night, and all I had to buy was bread. Needless to say, it rained all afternoon. Still, I have managed to write an article for my website and have made inroads into the Christmas event, as well as writing prayers for Remembrance Day on Sunday. I’ve entered a poetry competition, finished my song based on a Dali painting and assisted Dot with some quotes, laminated for her P4C session on Friday. Perhaps I should charge her…