I know: they’re all busy weeks. But Tuesday was one of the busiest days for quite a while, packed with excitement and incident. First, David arrived back in the UK from Canada; then Carrie and friends took our old sofas away; then I went up to the Archant agm, which turned out to be very long but quite promising, for everyone except Maryta.

Dot arrived for the buffet, having stayed at home to supervise the exit of the sofas, and we chatted to a number of people, including Doug Bird. Afterwards we ran into Tim Bishop, formerly editor of the Evening News, then head of Radio Norfolk and now top man at the Forum. He was keen to chat about Archant: his wife still works there as a journalist and is less than enthusiastic, despite the agm announcement that 70% of employees were “satisfied”. Presumably the other 30% were journalists. At some point during the agm I chatted to current EDP editor Nigel Pickover, who told me to send him a poem. I’m not sure his idea of a poem is the same as mine.

Later the same day we had our hair cut and then went to the Julian meeting at Howard’s, which was as enjoyable as usual.

The same could not be said of the meeting with the church accountants that Simon and I “enjoyed” the next day. It was not the accountant in question – Fiona – who was charming and intelligent. Nor Simon, who knows a lot more than I do about accounting. However, it became clear after I had provided some specific figures later in the day and felt the blood rushing round my head that I needed to relinquish the post of treasurer. The next day I wrote the necessary e-mail, but have had only two responses – from Carrie and Eleanor, both very kind. The others probably think that if they ignore me I will carry on.

In a week of sofas, our new leather one arrived on Friday, together with a chair that turned out to be broken. It was taken away again, and we await news of a replacement. In the evening we both went to the Paston agm (something that the computer denies exists, insisting on “age” or “ago”), which was held at the Manor Hotel, Mundesley and went very well. A nice bunch of people and far too many sandwiches.

Yesterday it rained all day, and today Granite Man came to arrange for a new set of kitchen tops for us. He was very chatty, and we eventually made a choice – or Dot did, as I was not particularly worried. So within a couple of months we’ll have a new worktop in the kitchen. Wonder if it will happen before the replacement chair arrives. Meanwhile, we await the critical encounter between Norwich City and Sunderland, which could decide the future of the club as far as the Premiership is concerned.