Very cold for the time of year, but happily dry over the last few days. Last Friday I took Phil to the doctor’s in the morning, had a long wait in the car park and then a longer one when he had to hang around for a heart monitor. So I walked to St Benedict’s and bought some new pegs for my guitar: one of them had broken and jammed in the hole, but I managed to free it. I also managed to free a hammer that had got jammed in the drawer by employing an ingenious method involving a hook and a piece of string. Satisfying.
David, Oliver and Amy came over to celebrate Dot’s birthday at the weekend, arriving mid-afternoon and going back mid-afternoon on Sunday. We had a roast dinner on the Saturday, and Amy used the remains of it to make a curry on the Sunday. I went to church but left early, missing a DCC meeting about the fabric and forgetting to pin up Dot’s Christmas dinner list.
During the weekend we managed to get in quite a bit of table tennis, and David sorted out my Cloud problems on the computer, caused by duplicate file-saving to different places in the Cloud. Lovely time all round.
Dot left shortly after David, heading south for a hotel in Croydon in preparation for a philosophy session at Rotherhithe next day.
On Monday I felt listless but walked up to pay in a cheque and then on a whim went to the Castle Museum, to see (mainly) an exhibition on the photography of Olive Edis. I have to say her pictures of people were sensational, given that they were taken in the late 19th century and early 20th. She knew how to catch the light.
Dot arrived back just after 7pm.
On Tuesday Angela and Rodney came round. We went to Prezzo’s for a quite acceptable lunch and then they came back to ours for the afternoon and stayed for a light tea. I showed them some holiday photos, but can’t work out why the TV shows the ones I’ve discarded or edited, and in a very random way. We also listened to some tapes we found in Ethel’s stuff, but there was not much of interest – just one of Vicki singing as a child, with which they plan to embarrass her as a Christmas “present”. This would have been a really nice day if I hadn’t been feeling rather under the weather for some reason.
Today I got out of the bath just in time to discover that I had put a visit to the cinema in my diary: so I got a £3 ticket for a seniors’ showing of The Magnificent Seven while Dot was at Diocesan House for a meeting with her boss. Very much enjoyed the film.Bought a train ticket for Coventry on the way home. I am due to attend a meeting there tomorrow.