Last Saturday was warmer with some sun and a bit of rain in the evening. Watched the end of The Inheritance, which lost its way towards the finale. Went with Dot to football –Jonathan’s also there for the first time for many weeks. City beat Birmingham 2-0 and played quite well. Watched a documentary on Jupiter which seemed more conjecture than fact, despite a visit from Juno, a space vehicle. Spurs beat Liverpool 2-1 with the help of two red cards and an own goal. Makes a change for Liverpool to suffer from bad refereeing.
Needless to say, this error has now escalated into an international incident, with Liverpool, the eternal victims, suggesting a replay. Since this would open the door to many more replays, I hope it will not happen.
Sunday was quite warm really. Went to church, played music and did a sermon which may have been OK, but I didn’t think flowed very well. Lots of solicitous inquiries about my health. Drove home and watched quite a bit of football, and Ryder Cup golf in the evening. Exciting (Europe won), but BBC coverage was messy and could have been better. Did quite a lot of clearing up. Later spoke to David, who had been at Roger’s exhibition at Creemore with Chrissy and the kids. He is much better, but still suffering from after-effects of whatever it was, as is Chrissy. Des brought some plants round for Dot, and I photographed some documents for David.
Very overcast on Monday, but dry till around 4pm, then rain, becoming very heavy and prolonged. In the morning we drove to Ray’s and spent about 90 minutes with him till Ollie arrived (Lyndsey’s ex). Then home for lunch and out to see Rosie, who now has a carer with her all the time – Grace, in this case. Rosie seems very thin and hard to hear, but knows what’s going on. While we were there Simon called (he rents a tunnel from Rosie) and Aran, a community nurse who spent some time with her. She is in pain but has no specific disease that we could make out. Afterwards we called at Waitrose and picked up some shopping, then drove home. Raining quite hard by the time we got there. Dot cooked delicious stuffed marrow, and we watched first three episodes of thriller Black Snow, set in Australia and very well done.
Lot of rain in the air on Tuesday, but dry. Noticeably chillier, though. Drove to Town House for Archant breakfast. Chatted with Brian and Tricia outside – probably Brian’s last appearance, because his legs are very bad. Quite a good number there, including Steve Snelling, Peter Franzen and an IT guy who I didn’t really remember. Robin was late because of traffic. At home, caught up with chess games and picture editing. Watched Barbie, which I bought by mistake. Quite good, but not brilliant.
Wednesday was reasonably pleasant, becoming warmer in the afternoon. Walked to church for Bible study, which went well; usual suspects, plus Ellie. Walked home again, just in time to catch Bridget finishing cleaning house. Dot did violin practice and went to orchestra in the evening. I checked car insurance with AXA and DVLA sites and found I don’t need to do anything about the alleged TIA. Norwich managed to revert to losing ways against Swansea in Wales. Missed lots of chances and lost 1-2.