Another picture from Easter weekend, with grandson Oliver about to demonstrate his skill with a rolling pin. Admiring sister looks on.

Today has been very busy – so busy in fact that I’m too tired to play in the John Swan Rapidplay chess event, which I normally enter. Instead, I’m writing this. Dot has gone off to PCC but shouldn’t be long. Started the day by dithering around instead of taking the opportunity to get up early when Dot went off to Yarmouth for a Philosophy4Children event at Anne’s school. Eventually got moving and found the bath drainage pipe was leaking. Aargh! I suppose if any pipe is going to leak, the bath drainage one is best. We don’t actually have to use the bath, though I do find it difficult to resist.

After thinking about that for a bit, I went up to the Grapevine to help with taking down the exhibition. Annette, Martin and Peter were there. I took a pile of pictures out to Paston, after calling back home to pick up some Guidebook walks directions that I’d left behind. Before Paston comes Bacton, and I took the opportunity to have some delicious cod and chips – with free bonus sausage – which I ate in Paston churchyard. Then to Dayspring, where I put all the pictures on the table tennis table, because there was nowhere else to put them. There was a hippo taking up most of the barn. Had a quick word with the lovely Naomi and then went off to check walk directions, finding them sadly lacking in several places and completely wrong in one. Still, had a pleasant hour or two in summer sunshine countryside and found a delightful church on a hill at Edingthorpe.

Called at the printers in North Walsham on the way home and picked up some P4C leaflets for Dot after eventually getting through to her on the phone to check that it was OK to do so. At home I corrected the walks and sent them off to Lucy, but haven’t heard anything since.

Yesterday Norwich City knocked another nail in what might turn out to be their coffin when they lost 3-2 to Ipswich, thanks to a wrongly awarded penalty. Earlier I preached at St Augustine’s, mainly on forgiveness (a good and underrated thing), and spent the rest of the day watching too much television, interspersed with popping outside to make me feel better. Watched F1 Chinese Grand Prix, then quite a lot of football. Not sure why I was pleased Man Utd lost on penalties to Everton: my natural penchant for the underdog, I suspect, since I am one.