As I write this, Dot is at Carrow Road, hoping that Norwich hang on to beat Ipswich in the big local derby. At the moment they are leading 1-0. She has got over her cold (enough to go out, anyway), but I am feeling pretty tired, especially after walking her down to the ground. Have been feeling quite tired recently, for some reason.
Monday was overcast at first, but some sun later. Dry. Got up late. Dot had a cold, but this made me do more things and therefore feel better. Thanks to Oliver’s link we were able to watch Norwich lose 3-1 to Leicester on Sky TV. In the afternoon I did a bit of work and Dot went for a walk. Looked at our photos on TV. I cooked the meal – salmon. Afterwards we watched Fargo: think O and A liked it. To bed fairly late.
Tuesday was dry most of the day, but wet in the evening. Not too cold. Dot now had pretty bad cold; hoped (vainly) it would go away by Friday. This morning she went up to the surgery to get checked over for general health, and got some advice she would rather not have, involving not eating things she likes. While she was out, Oliver, Amy and I looked at our old photobooks, and when she came back we went to Gem for lunch, which was very pleasant. They set off for home just after 3pm and made good time. They both had plans for this evening! Dot took it easy and I did quite a bit of clearing up, involving moving the car, making the bed, washing dishes, putting the bins out and so on. We watched the end of the Coma drama serial, which was pretty good, actually, and then a documentary about the UK hurricane of January 1990.
Wednesday was fairly mild and mainly dry. Strange day. Dot was feeling pretty ill all day with cold symptoms and stayed in bed till mid-afternoon. I was feeling pretty mediocre but quite a bit better than her. Bridget came late morning and did the cleaning, while Dot stayed in her room to avoid giving her a cold. Bin men came quite early. i caught up with some e-mails and started to think about my sermon. Dot came down and we watched a bit of TV – a really good programme about the Zambezi, and the first episode of a drama series called Passenger. I made a soup from some leftover chicken and later cooked some smoked haddock. Went to bed early.
Thursday – Grey day, with lots of rain later. Not cold. Stayed in all day, except for going over to Des’s with papers. While I was there he messaged me to ask me to turn on solar panel boost. Dot was still bad to start with, but improved quite a bit later, though not before I’d contacted Joy to suggest postponing tomorrow’s birthday meal. After a phone conversation we agreed to do that. I felt mediocre early on, but improved. David FaceTimed early evening as I was cooking a meal (pies), and he said Amy the had caught the cold. I wrote my sermon during the afternoon after spending ages trying to get Microsoft Word back for Dot after it had disappeared during a Mac upgrade. Eventually shared my Microsoft 365 with her, and happily it retrieved all her files. Watched a bit of TV in evening, including a documentary on the Yukon river, plus Professor T and a couple of other things.
Friday started very wet, then dry and quite mild, with some sun: ended with rain again. Very full day. Drove out to Dereham to bring Phil and Joy into Norwich to their solicitor for will-signing; then drove them home again. Tired. After lunch went to Morrisons and bought food and petrol. Dot still suffering, with bad cough: unfortunately Harriet arrived just as I was leaving. Had long talk with David on FaceTime, mainly about Diderot – he’s made some simplifying changes. Looks good. Went out for street meet with Mark, Matt and Jonathan, and met Maybelle, who has moved into No9, with her husband (Daniel?). Des and Chris still in Egypt. Had mussels for supper, then watched two more episodes of Passenger, which is weirdly compelling. Then Beyond Paradise, which was pretty silly.
PS They won 1-0. Dot was quite pleased.