Just back from the monthly Archant coffee morning, with Robin and Shelagh, Brian and Tricia, Bill Woodcock, Neville Miller and many others. Maryta still in hospital, of course. Afterwards I went for a walk round the Mall to get some steps done, as I have been very lax the last three days – partly because of the bad weather. Dot is now at Alpington School, where David went as a child, to talk to both staff and pupils.
Andrew is still in hospital, and Walsgrave seems to be set up specifically to prevent patients being located, or for anyone to find out their condition. Minster Lodge tell me he’s nows stable, having been through the antibiotics, but is still suffering from diarrhoea. Apparently he’s now on Ward 30, but according to the hospital website, that doesn’t exist.
Still trying to catch up with some Paston Database work (editing material provided by Rob and Peter), which will be followed by a partial rewrite of the leaflet and some words for the Monument display board, both at Blofield.
Last Thursday went up to Boots to get my new glasses, only to find they had been wrongly put together and had to be returned to the workshop. I haven’t been feeling too great over the last week – fuzzy head, bad knee and achey back; so I could have down without the pointless walk, but I guess the exercise was good for me. Dot has now booked me in with Verona for Friday, mainly to look at my knee. That should be interesting.
On Saturday we went up to the church hall to “help” with sorting out the store room, but I didn’t feel I did much, especially as I couldn’t lift because of my back. Dot went to Screwfix and bought some glue. Carrie was very busy, but she’s better at doing than delegating; so the rest of us were mainly at a loose end, and we eventually went home to watch Norwich beat Leeds 3-1 away. The team played very well, and Dot got quite excited.
Later we went up to Ipswich Road for a meal with Paul and Holly (my god-daughter), which was very pleasant. She is in the midst of plans to leave the Navy, where she is a Lieutenant-Commander, and work as a logistics expert for Amazon, somewhere near Manchester. She had her dog with her. As dogs go, it was OK.
On Sunday I led the service, standing in for Liz Cannon, and Liz Day did an excellent sermon on 1 Corinthians 13 – love, which she applied to people (especially politicians and the media) taking a positive attitude towards each other instead of looking for conflict. Afterwards Dot and I visited Jessie. Roger and Debbie were already there, but that was fine. Jessie doesn’t seem any worse.
Yesterday it poured with rain and was very cold. Julia and Allan visited us from Swaffham, and Dot did a lovely meal of individual shepherd’s pies. Very pleasant afternoon. Dot took a couple of people from the station to a centering prayer meeting in the evening.