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Tables outside the church ready for tea and biscuits afterwards. No, I haven’t taken many pictures recently.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I think I’ve more or less finished my next poetry book, and the sun has been shining for several days. Pandemic? What pandemic? Well, Zoom hasn’t gone away. As I write on Bank Holiday Monday morning, the last day of May, Dot is Zooming with Barbara, putting the finishing touches to their P4C pack, and last Wednesday she also spent all morning on a DSSO Zoom meeting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later that day, Jude (Sayer) came for nibbles and wine at 5.30pm and left at 11.15pm. It was an interesting conversation, what with her being a pagan and having a goddess. Sadly it wasn’t quite warm enough to sit outside; so we sat on opposite sides of the kitchen table. For a long time. Dot had cooked bread and rhubarb souffl\u00e9. Separately. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday thought about being warm, but kept veering into cool. Dot spent a long time at Long Stratton School in the morning. Unusually, we had a cooked lunch \u2013 kippers \u2013 and at intervals through the day watched Paris, Texas<\/em>, a brilliant film with a slightly unsatisfactory outcome. In the afternoon we walked up to the Rosary… again, it was very still. Saw a little girl having a great time, couldn\u2019t stop running. David FaceTimed to say he\u2019d received our parcel, containing two poetry books (one of them mine, one requested). In the evening we gave Eleanor a lift to Vicky\u2019s for Cake and Compline round her Fire Pit, which went pretty well. Had longish chats with Jared and Amy, who\u2019s getting quite grown-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next day it got markedly warmer, and for some reason a feeling of pessimism swept over me. Don’t know why. It went away quite quickly. I wrote a website piece on Bob Dylan and watched a TV programme on Dylan covers, which unaccountably omitted two of the best\u00a0 \u2013 Jimi Hendrix’s All along the watchtower<\/em> and Boots of Spanish leather<\/a><\/em> by the Irish band, Dervish<\/a>, which is worth a look IMHO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walked with Dot to Carrow Bridge along the river path and then back just in time to catch Bridget arriving to do the cleaning. Dot did a rather longer walk and got back about ten minutes later. Rained a bit, but despite threatening clouds it stopped in time for us to meet for wine in the street. Watched quite a good Mexican cartel thriller called Sicario2: Soldado<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday was really warm. It might almost have been summer. Just in time for Anne’s birthday celebration in their garden at Poringland. We stopped at Morrison\u2019s on the way to buy flowers. Also present at Anne\u2019s: well, Philip, obviously (very quiet); Louise, David and Freddie; Charlotte, Chris, Daniel and Thomas; Sophie, Richard, Charlie and Iris. Lovely afternoon with sandwiches and cakes. Left about 6pm. Had kippers later. Charlotte and Chris are still suffering some effects of Long Covid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier Des and Chris came round so that we could witness some documents, and we had a cup of tea\/coffee.Watched another mysterious episode of Fargo<\/em>, plus a few of Cher\u2019s songs (surprisingly mediocre) and an interview with Bob Dylan that I had never seen, plus the last-ever episode of A Question of Sport<\/em> in the Sue Barker format. Quite sad. Amazingly, during the day I managed to notch up 4000 steps.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday was warm again, with a touch of coolness in the wind. Had tea and biscuits outside after church, during which I spoke to Kim and Howard. Howard was conjuring up life 5000 years ago on Orkney, where they had just been on holiday, and Kim was revealing how difficult life was for her, though not in a poor-me way. She has lots of trouble with ME and migraines; her son is having problems getting a job (as a helicopter pilot) as a result of a series of unfortunate events and timings that were not his fault; and her daughter is having difficulties at university related to Covid restrictions which are preventing her doing her PhD in the way she had hoped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After lunch Dot worked in garden and I went out on my bike (up and down the road) for the first time in years \u2013 discovering that I needed to get used to it again. Quite astonishing. Later watched three episodes of The Killing, <\/em>which is still brilliant. Saw an Arena <\/em>programme on Dylan’s Christian songs interspersed with so-called sermons. Songs very patchy, sermons also. Earlier we saw highlights of the Championship play-off final, Brentford 2 Swansea 0.\u00a0The right result, especially as Brentford had finished third, seven points above Swansea.
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I think I’ve more or less finished my next poetry book, and the sun has been shining for several days. Pandemic? What pandemic? Well, Zoom hasn’t gone away. As I write on Bank Holiday Monday morning, the last day of May, Dot is Zooming with Barbara, putting the finishing touches to their P4C pack, and … Continue reading Could this be summer? Just keep Zooming anyway<\/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-5621","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\/5621","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=5621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5623,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621\/revisions\/5623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}