No-one I know, but she happened to go and sit on the rocks in Kalk Bay when I wanted to take a picture of the stormy sea; she turned out to be a peaceful counterpoint to it. Atmospheric moment.

Back here in England things have been a bit quiet. Today has been very grey and uninspiring; I ventured out briefly to take prescriptions up to the doctor’s, but it rained on me, so I retreated. I would have been woken at 8.30 by the piano tuner, had I not been awake since about 5am and up watching England drawing 1-1 with Holland without stirring themselves at all.

Later I mapped out the Christmas drama for St Augustine’s, for which I shamelessly plundered the work of previous years. Dot spent much of the day reorganising the house, but I managed to get the DVD player working again.

Incidentally, today is exactly a year since I started writing this blog. I’ve written on average more than once every four days, which I suppose isn’t bad, though it isn’t good either.