{"id":4283,"date":"2017-04-30T17:50:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T16:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=4283"},"modified":"2017-04-30T17:55:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T16:55:54","slug":"stamina-sapping-series-of-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=4283","title":{"rendered":"Stamina-sapping series of events"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A couple of re-enactors having far too much fun at Mautby: Diana and Brigitte.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Well, we did go to Felbrigg for a walk with the Hendersons last Monday. In the course of it I discovered that my energy levels have dipped dramatically: all three of them could walk faster than me, and that’s not counting the dog. Not sure why this should be: I suspect a hangover from the various minor health problems I’ve been having. Up to now, my stamina has always been very good. Yes, I know: I’m getting old.<\/p>\n

In the evening another stamina-sapping event \u2013 the annual parish meeting. As members of the PCC we had an added bonus: as well as the main meeting (80minutes), we had a half-hour pre-meeting meeting and a 20-minute post-meeting meeting. Happily there was a meal too. During the post-meeting meeting I suggested that Jesus would\u00a0not have had a health and safety policy. I could have added that if he’d done a risk assessment, we might not have been there at all, but I knew I’d be crucified if I’d said that. Ho, ho.<\/p>\n

An altogether more relaxing event the following day: Cake and Compline at the Archers, with everybody in attendance. According to my diary nothing much happened the next two days. I was probably asleep, or writing articles for Parish Pump. I seem to remember a couple of short walks, but it was very cold.<\/p>\n

David left for Canada on Friday. I always feel rather nervous when he’s so far away. Before he left, however, we had a Paston Footprints steering committee meeting, which went surprisingly well, possibly because Dot made a cake. \u00a0In\u00a0the evening, while David was in the air, we went with the Robinsons to the Wildebeest<\/em> at Stoke to celebrate Philip’s 77th birthday. I drove there from their house, and impressed Philip with the speed of the journey. I think “impressed” is the right word. The meal was excellent. Duck.<\/p>\n

More excitement yesterday, when Dot and I drove to remote Mautby for a Paston-related event put on by the local church as a kind of launch\u00a0for their “hub” of the Footprints project. They managed to fill the church for a talk by Rob and Lucy, plus various re-enacting. We attracted\u00a0the Lord Mayor of Yarmouth and Ingrid, the deputy head of one of Dot’s schools. Peter shot a video\u00a0\u2013\u00a0https:\/\/youtu.be\/fjfex8IpswE<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 and a reporter compiled something for the local paper and its website<\/a>. in the churchyard I had a long talk with a woman who claimed descent from Robert Kett. She said she was not feeling rebellious.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Norwich City went 3-0 up away to Leeds and managed to hang on to draw 3-3. We listened to the nail-biting conclusion on the way home.<\/p>\n

Today we had a cake (by Anna) at church for Phyllis’s birthday, and a very pleasant service. Chris Denton called in afterwards to talk about her mother (Anne Travis), who is in a care home, and we are arranging to go to see her near her birthday, in a week or two. Afterwards Dot, Phil and I pooped over to the old church to show our faces for the Flintspiration weekend \u2013 a kind of celebration of Norwich’s old flint churches. Stuart was in charge as usual, and doing a good job. He told me he had been inspired by Rosemary, a church member who died some years ago and who was lovely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, we did go to Felbrigg for a walk with the Hendersons last Monday. In the course of it I discovered that my energy levels have dipped dramatically: all three of them could walk faster than me, and that’s not counting the dog. Not sure why this should be: I suspect a hangover from the … Continue reading Stamina-sapping series of events<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283","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=4283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4286,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283\/revisions\/4286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}