Highlight of the past few days without doubt was David’s visit on Mothering Sunday (yesterday). Dot and I went to church before his arrival – a Holy Communion followed by what should have been the DCC annual meeting, except there weren’t enough people for a quorum. In fact there were as many people in the worship group (Phil, Dot and I) as in the congregation (Judy, Matt and Liz Day). Some were on holiday in exotic places like Morocco and Naples, others enjoying Mother’s Day events.
We cooked a chicken roast and apple and berry crumble and had a pretty relaxing time. We even went for a walk to see if the new car park has any charging points. It has. David is on a mission to track down charging points across the country because he is thinking of buying an electric car.
We also watched a bit of the Lithuania-England football match, which was fairly dire, although we won it. David has given me a list of Netflix must-see shows; so we are fairly tied up for the foreseeable future.
During the last week or so someone has damaged our back gate. I suspect that a tree was felled, or at least a big branch lopped, on the footpath behind us, and it smashed part of one of the cross-bars. However, no-one seemed to see it; so I can’t prove it. In similar vein, Dot has also had a tooth removed, following which she felt pretty traumatised; so on Friday and Saturday we did very little.
On Thursday I went to the doctor to check on my kidney results. It seems I’m fine, which is hard to believe. However, I’m certainly much better than either of my brothers, for which I’m extremely grateful . I spoke to Andrew on the phone this morning, and he was very grumpy, but at least he managed to say something, which is an improvement on last week at this time. Meanwhile Dot has gone to North Walsham to put some flowers in the cemetery. After some sunny days, it has turned cloudy, and throughout there has been a very chilly wind.
My DNA results have come in. Rather disappointing – I am over 60% British/Irish, just over 20% East European, and the rest Spanish and Italian. Nothing much happening there.