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4 April 2009

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Another picture from the Grapevine exhibition, this time showing members of the Care family in the vicinity of the refreshments. Drummer Simeon and student Naomi are standing on Lucy’s right: Jonathan is at back right, talking to medieval role-player Jo Berry, from the Paston Heritage Society. Lucy is talking to Joan Murray, one of the InPrint artists, whose husband John is partially obscured by a pillar. We’ve known Jonathan and Lucy since before they were married, 30 years ago. Preparations are now being made for the Wednesday night Grapevine session next week, which seems promising.

I finished my second lot of antibiotics yesterday, and I guess I feel better, though certainly not 100 per cent. Just walked up to Carrow Road to buy tickets for the Easter Monday match against Watford, when David and I will be taking Oliver. Tickets went on sale today at 9am; I turned up at 11am to find only the back row and about four other individual seats unsold. We are in the back row: the nice lady has sat us as far away from the visiting supporters as possible “as we have a child with us”. Felt pretty tired when I got back, but it’s a very pleasant day, and Colin is here doing some stuff in the garden involving shingle. He’s created a very nice space under the kitchen window.

On Thursday night it became obvious that water was seeping out of one of our drain covers. After a bit of hesitation, I rang the insurers’ emergency helpline, and within half an hour a guy was at the door. We had a lot of trouble getting the drain cover off (not the leaking one – the next one down: it takes a professional to know these things), and before we did we tried next door (out) and Phyllis, whose drain we decided was not connected to ours. When we eventually got the cover off, there was an obvious blockage, which the guy cleared, and a rather unholy mess, mainly liquid, tumbled through at high speed. Something very satisfying about removing a blockage. I can think of somewhere else an improved flow would be welcome.

Julia and Allan came round last night. Dot did a very time-consuming but delicious mousaka, which was appreciated by all. I have reorganised my website so that the beginnning of new articles will appear on the front page, and the updating should be obvious. Also added another article and changed the bottom of the front page to include a selection of quotes, which I will also change regularly. Quite pleased with it.

9 February 2007

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Yes, it’s been wintry recently. Not so much in Norwich, where we’ve had a little snow which melted fairly quickly; but in much of the rest of the country there have been quite heavy falls, as can be seen from the picture of my grandson (left) with the snowman he built – possibly with a little help from his Dad and sister. This is in Bedfordshire, and much of the Midlands and West have caught it. Here in Norwich it’s been bitterly cold, but now it’s raining. Warnings of ice on the roads, but fortunately I don’t have far to go tomorrow.

Today I did actually get out of the house and walked back from the plumbing shop – about two and a half miles with one or two detours, including a non-stop climb of Gas Hill – always a good test of how fit I am. Quite surprising, really.

The plumbing shop visit was to pick up tap inserts to repair the bathroom sink taps, which had been broken by a visitor. For reference, I hammered the insert into the tap head, then pushed the tap head on to the shaft. The shop suggested doing it the other way round, but it proved impossible. It’s working at the moment. I don’t think they really knew, though they were very helpful – for instance in getting the old insert out of the tap head.

Saw A on the way home – her father has had a massive stroke and is in a bad way.

Dot went to Watton in the snow yesterday, but it wasn’t too bad. Vicky has been in Hull and had a tricky journey back to Nottingham, where she spent the night. David had been going to come to Norwich to discuss the website(s), but he had to look after the children yesterday, and the weather was still dodgy today. So we had a webcam session.

During the last couple of days I’ve also written my page for Monday and written a couple of poems for tomrrow, which is InPrint’s Creative Day. We’re hoping to get well on the way towards preparing a presentation for the Welborne Arts Festival. I’ve also put together an Ambient Wonder event (www.ambientwonder.org) that Dot and I are curating on Sunday. The idea is for loads of people to come up with ideas and we sort them out, but there wasn’t much input, and I’m not very good at delegating. So I had to come up with some ideas, which is bad news.

Yesterday morning, one of Dot’s head teacher colleagues came round, and the three of us put together some questions for a music quiz for the National Association of First and Primary Heads annual conference in April. Very few on Bob Dylan – unprecedented restraint.