Wednesday 12 March was cold, with several showers. Hail at Dereham. Rainbows. Drove to church with Dot, and we had Bible study with Steven, Debbie, Judy and Ellie-on-phone. Continued through Acts, with Paul escaping from attempts to killl him. After lunch Dot had a review of her medication – by phone. She held her own.
I drove to Dereham with Phil’s birthday presents. He’s 73. We got most of them at the Mellor shop in Hathersage. Chatted about the Rapture, the money-grabbing evils of the Labour government and the evil plan to make people our age retake our driving tests. Didn’t know about that. Also the preaching of Joseph Prince. In the evening Dot went with Janet and Nova to orchestra. I chose hymns, edited some pictures etc. Oh, wine came this morning. Didn’t hear the guy as I usually do, but it was there all right. Watched last episode of Amandaland – really good – plus a bit of European football.
Thursday – showers. Quite cool. Dot drove to see Anne, and they went for a walk round Poringland. I walked to Morrisons, and we met there and did a large amount of shopping to restock. Then home for late lunch – shrimps. Bridget came to do cleaning and did a very thorough downstairs job. I put water in piano and had trouble standing up again. Annoying.
In the evening we drove to Cake and Compline at the Archers. Very good cake. Gave lift to Judy and Eleanor, who was waiting at end of her road and then ignored us when we stopped for her. Bridget led compline and spoke about St Edmund. Had trouble parking in George Borrow Road and then only just managed to turn round at end of Eleanor’s road (Maida Vale). Must have been about a 12-point turn. Sheer genius. At home watched documentary on Mexico.
Friday – Pretty chilly still but dry. Linda came to do our hair – later than we thought; so threw our morning out. By the time I’d had a bath it was lunchtime. Dropped book in bath again because I went to sleep. Again. Watched Bergerac after lunch and a couple of documentaries in the evening – one on air force training and one (third of three) on Israel-Palestine pre-Oct 7. Then Death in Paradise. More or less the same thing. Somewhere in there we went out for street meet (Des, Chris, Mark, Ciara, Matt, Angela, Joe and Sam). Bit cool, but good. Fish and chips to follow.
Saturday – Cold but dry. Went with Dot to chemist in the morning to pick up her pills. She dropped me at Pilling Park on Harvey Lane, and I walked home through Lion Wood and the Rosary. Some quite steep bits – felt pretty tired afterwards. Most of the rest of the day spent watching TV – rugby and the final four episodes of The One that Got Away, a rather good Welsh thriller with a pathetic male cop but a good female one. Tension at end worked very well. Oh, and the second half of No Direction Home, the Bob Dylan documentary by Martin Scorsese.
Sunday – Cold but dry till evening. Church in the morning as usual. In the band. Anna absent ill. Unusual service in that Howard interviewed Steve about his life at St Augustine’s going back to when he was a chorister and on through several interesting encounters. Interview was pretty long, but held everyone’s attention. Well worth doing both for him and us, I think.
Took Ray home. Did a bit of walking indoors and got up to 4000. Had a long FaceTime with David around teatime. Quite a bit about politics. Nice message from him afterwards. Newcastle beat Liverpool 2-1 in Carabao Cup Final. Yes! Sadly Spurs lost to Fulham in league. Saw last episode of Toward Zero: excellent Agatha Christie adaptation. Dot is in the middle of a week of measuring her blood pressure and taking new statins.