It’s Easter Saturday, a dead day. But there was a kind of resurrection this morning when Linda came round and cut our hair. We now have a new life. It’s a bit chilly outside and snow is forecast for next week, but…
The current chilliness, though seasonal enough, contrasts sharply with the beginning of the week. Monday was pleasantly warm and sunny, and we drove to North Walsham, called at Sainsbury’s to buy flowers and proceeded to the cemetery. From there we went to Ebridge Mill, and walked along the North Walsham and Dilham Canal for a bit over half a mile. Very pleasant indeed. There was a lot of traffic on the roads, and hold-ups on the way home, but we got back just in time to have tea in the street with the neighbours, restricting ourselves to groups of six or less. I spoke to Jonathan and Mark, who has a badly injured knee following an accident in the States, and is going to haven operation very soon at Spire. I was tired after our walk, but cooked salmon, and later we watched the new Line of Duty, which is as mysterious and entertaining as always.
Tuesday was sunny again and almost as warm. We visited Phyllis at Thomas Tawell House, and she seemed pretty well. Afterwards we walked up to the Rosary after posting a letter to Andrew, then did some Paston editing. Spent an hour on phone to Lily, whose birthday was a few days ago, then ordered a freezer from John Lewis. Chatted briefly to Des and Mark.
Wednesday was still warm but cloudier. I finished preparing for our Zoom Compline and started getting a new collection of poems together. Dot has been putting together some rather nice Stations of the Cross collages for church, and after lunch we dropped them off at church, then drove to Catton Park and walked round it. Beautiful area, but sadly overrun with dogs. Dot spent some time in the garden, and in the evening we watched The Lone Ranger film, which was to my surprise very good indeed, with great action sequences.
Next day, cold air returned, but it was dry. Dot spent a lot of time Zooming with Barbara, then spent the rest of the day working hard on her P4C pages, which are looking very good. I worked on my poems, then posted Easter cards and walked up to the Rosary, where I had a brief interchange with four women of about my own age or older, which was nice. Come home and had bath, then edited another Paston page. Cooked salmon and watched The Terror , which has improved slightly. Spoke to Des and then Austin, the window cleaner. Later we had our Zoom Compline, again without Kim, then watched most of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, mainly because part of it was filmed on a mountain we went up in Switzerland – the Schilthorn.
On Good Friday we watched the Riding Lights passion play again in bed – it was still brilliant – and later had a discussion on it on Zoom, organised by Howard. Only four of us – Howard, Judy, Liz C and me, but Sister Pamela (living on the Isle of Mull) was also with us to begin with – sound only and with no idea why she was there. How can you join a Zoom meeting by mistake? Dot missed the discussion because she was watching Norwich City draw 1-1 with Preston after conceding a goal with the last kick of the game. I walked round Bishopgate and Cathedral Close. The weather was cool and grey, but not too bad. We finished watching OHMSS.
Some time during the week we watched the final episode of Unforgotten, which must be one of the best police series ever.