And here we are, back live. Dot is at a DSSO meeting in Easton, and I have just been up to the Archant pensioners’ coffee morning, at which Maryta confided that she and Paul had split up. I revealed that I knew, and M then moved on to give Robin and Shelagh the shock news while I talked to people I knew less well about their holidays (and ours).
Yesterday was a lovely warm day, which we spent largely at North Walsham, having lunch with Jessie after walking to Sainsburys and back. Something happened on the way back that I would have put well beyond the bounds of possibility: I told off a driver for driving too fast. He accelerated fiercely up to us as we were crossing the road and told us we should be using the zebra crossing. I pointed out the error of his ways: it’s people like him who get people like me, who drive quickly but reasonably, a bad name. We did not come to blows, however.
Jessie seemed a bit better: we spent some time in the summerhouse. Her throat has improved, but she had a nosebleed before we arrived, which is a bit worrying.
In the evening we had a large meeting of the DCC, which went on until 10pm. Happily it was at our house. I can’t remember much of it, but Howard and Anna arrived over an hour late after getting stuck on the A14, coming back from Cumbria (family funeral). Nikki was driving.
On Sunday we were at church as usual, and gave Elwira a lift to High Green afterwards before popping round to see Joy with her birthday presents. They were about to have a takeaway lunch with Birgit and Joe; so we didn’t hang around. After lunch we drove up to the Plantation Garden. It was another beautiful day, and the Community Choir were singing, which included Chris from across the road and David Archer, whose wife Bridget and friend Heather were in the audience.
Very informal. After the choir we got what we came for, which was a performance by Colin Payne and his wife of songs such as The Boxer and If it Be Your Will. Colin is a fellow chess player, and we had gone in response to a round-robin e-mail from him. I was pretty impressed, especially by his voice, and encouraged by the fact that he used lyrics and chord sheets. Lovely afternoon in all.