{"id":2932,"date":"2013-10-09T12:02:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T11:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=2932"},"modified":"2013-10-09T12:02:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T11:02:21","slug":"paston-expert-put-on-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=2932","title":{"rendered":"Paston expert put on spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2935\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2935\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_1526.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2935\" alt=\"Wensum Park, during a walk on Monday\" src=\"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_1526-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_1526-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_1526-1024x764.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2935\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wensum Park, during a walk on Monday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OK: we found the missing photographs for Jessie &#8211; old ones with nurses on them, among other things \u2013 but Jessie wasn&#8217;t able to identify much when we called in on Sunday afternoon. Roger was also there, and we gave him a lift up to Ray&#8217;s on our way home (he was delivering something and then walking back).<\/p>\n<p>The concert on Saturday was extremely good, and we had excellent seats. Colin Dowdeswell was conducting, and we had a chat with his wife, who vouchsafed the alarming news that the Hendersons are moving back to Norwich when Paul retires next year. We knew this was a possibility, but it seems to be firming up.<\/p>\n<p>Visited Geoff in hospital on Monday: pushed him in a wheelchair to the quiet spot over the road and had a longish talk, partly while Sophie was talking to an authority figure (not sure who she was) about arrangements for Geoff&#8217;s discharge, maybe in a week or two. He is much, much better, but they are both stressed about what will happen when he has to leave.<\/p>\n<p>Busy day yesterday: I was at Cromer just after 10am for my appointment at the hospital, which took place on time. It turned out to be a minor \u00a0operation: a more major one (sigmoidoscopy) is due to take place fairly soon in Norwich, but this is purely precautionary: the doctor said he didn&#8217;t think there was a problem. Feeling more or less OK.<\/p>\n<p>Got back to Norwich in good time, though the weather was so beautiful I wished I didn&#8217;t have to. But I wanted to hear Karen Smyth talk about merchants and medieval literature, and I&#8217;m glad I did. Had a longish talk with Angela, who is now in charge at Dragon Hall, and a quick exchange with Karen, who embarrassed me slightly by calling on me as a Paston expert when someone asked a Paston-related question afterwards. Fortunately, I was able to answer it (it was about Bromholm Priory), \u00a0so perhaps I am. Hard to believe.<\/p>\n<p>Had to go to Morrisons afterwards to buy food for the Tuesday Group in the evening, where David A played a talk by John Donoghue about beauty, which was inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>Dot has been out and about a lot, and is &#8220;fighting off something&#8221; (not me). She was coughing a bit in the night, so I hope her fight succeeds, and includes me.<\/p>\n<p>After trying to find a way of sending my steam train video to Dave Evetts, I have had to admit defeat (file too large). Pity. While waiting for my appointment at Cromer, I wrote most of a poem called <em>Age of Steam<\/em>, which I have now finished and am pleased with. Have just finished reading a superb book called <em>The Misogynist<\/em>, by Piers Paul Read. Beautifully written, with a nice ending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK: we found the missing photographs for Jessie &#8211; old ones with nurses on them, among other things \u2013 but Jessie wasn&#8217;t able to identify much when we called in on Sunday afternoon. Roger was also there, and we gave him a lift up to Ray&#8217;s on our way home (he was delivering something and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=2932\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Paston expert put on spot<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[967,1850,1817,1053,1074,1849],"class_list":["post-2932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cromer","tag-dragopn-hall","tag-geoff","tag-hospital","tag-jessie","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2936,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions\/2936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}