Dot has visited a lot of schools this week, and possibly as a result went down with a cold yesterday; so we had to cancel Kristine’s visit. Actually we didn’t cancel it: we offered her the opportunity to cancel, and she quite rightly took it; Dot is in fact up and about today, but probably infectious. Would have felt uneasy if Kristine had come.
Eleanor called in this morning to bring a card to the people at St Augustine’s who she has just said goodbye to and who gave her a gift in excess of £100. We walked to her induction at St Helen’s on Thursday evening, and it was a lovely occasion: very relaxed and, surprisingly, warm. Quite a few people from St Augustine’s there, and I spoke to her sister Elizabeth (from Slough) afterwards. If it were possible, she seemed just as nice as Eleanor. St Helen’s is part of the Great Hospital and really beautiful – extremely old, of course. For the record, Eleanor (or Canon Langan) goes from being top chaplain at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital to being vicar and chaplain at St Helen’s and the Great Hospital.
Earlier in the day we had been to see Jessie. We had also been two days before – on the Tuesday – and both times she seemed very fragile. Roger is going in every day, and she has several other visitors regularly. This week the weather has improved, and it’s been predominantly sunny and quite warm for the time of year. I put this down to the fact that magnetic north is moving quite swiftly north-east. No-one knows why; so that’s all right.
I went up to the Rosary by a circuitous route yesterday and sat on a bench for a while. Beautiful afternoon, but I felt strangely lacking in energy. Huge number of crocuses.
On Wednesday I paid my second visit to Verena and she paid a lot of attention to my legs and lower back. I have a number of exercises from her which I can never remember to do.
The day before, Rob came round to discuss Blofield and the Pastons. We decided it would probably be best to do two leaflets, and I have kind of made a start, though I had a lot of trouble with my computer yesterday, which for some reason refused to connect with iCloud until I gave it a new password, which seems sort of self-defeating. Have been putting quite a bit of information into Peter’s Paston Database and discovered two duplicate entries. I enjoy doing it, but it can take up a long of time.
Dot went to see Maryta on Monday. She has been diagnosed with frontal lobe dementia, and it now remains to be decided what they are going to do with her. In fact Paul will have been to a meeting about it yesterday. Both Pete Kelley and I have cautioned him against taking responsibility for her care, because I know that the NHS will seize on any opportunity to do as little as possible if there is someone else to do it. We’re going for a cup of tea with Paul tomorrow (if Dot is well enough), and will find out what has been decided.
While I write this Dot is listening to Norwich City playing away at Bolton, and unbelievably they are winning 4-0 in the 60th minute. They couldn’t lose 5-4, could they? They have of course missed a penalty. Again.