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Work continued all week on Thorpe Road, causing chaos elsewhere in the city.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Killing came to an end for us on Sunday afternoon. \u00a0 In this case it was not so much a spontaneous massacre of everyone who disagrees with me (though that’s tempting sometimes), but the Danish 20-episode series series that was actually pretty brilliant, though the ending could have been sightly better. It was definitely a lot better than Formula 1, where Hamilton contrived to throw away the 18 points that had been gifted to him when Verstappen’s tyre fell apart; and the Test between England and New Zealand was not particularly inspiring. Too much TV really \u2013\u00a0in bed after midnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

High cloud on Monday: quite pleasant, very warm at times. Caught up with office backlog and spoke to Barbara and Lily on the phone. Also had an e-mail exchange with Phil K, who is on holiday in West Norfolk. Dot sorted out the garage, and we took a lot of stuff to the tip. Quite a queue. Put other stuff in car ready for charity shop, and the Paston banners ready to leave at North Walsham. Watched Inside No 9, <\/em>which was brilliant as always. Then two episodes of Fargo<\/em> \u2013 pretty weird. It’s set in Kansas City in the 1950s, and centres on gang warfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday was warm and dry. Dot walked to Anna\u2019s for a violin lesson while I filled the car up with petrol and checked the tyres \u2013 to my astonishment they were almost fully inflated. Must be six months at least since I checked them. Also did half-hour walk along thee river and up the Close, then round by Recorder Road.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After lunch we drove to North Walsham to look at Roger\u2019s bungalow. He showed us plans for quite big changes: so it will be some time before they move in. Afterwards dropped off Paston banners at the Knees and stayed for a cup of tea. Had a longish chat about the Paston Heritage Society and agreed to do a final magazine. After supper watched Tea with Mussolini<\/em>, with Cher, Judi Dench etc etc \u2013 very, very good. Lots of traffic around today, especially on Riverside Road because of a temporary Thorpe Road closure, and this continues as I write. Wrote to EDP about\u00a0 western link and other road issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday was very warm indeed. I drove up to the chemist for pills, then to Sainsbury\u2019s to recycle cardboard. Then to Postwick, but couldn\u2019t find the river: many years since I’d been there, and lots of house-building. Last time I went you could drive right down to what used to be the ferry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dot was zooming Barbara, so I walked up to the Rosary, met a woman called Pam and had quite a long chat. She lives on Cintra Road and has a grandson in Canada. In the afternoon Dot walked to Morrison\u2019s and I drove. Got lots of shopping because Des and Chris are going away. Had some drinks outside in the sun, and I felt a bit ill so went in after a while. Started cooking Hello Fresh while Dot went over to Des\u2019s and was told which plants to water. Watched two out of three episodes of Anne Boleyn<\/em>, with very good black woman in title role. Have now seen all of them: very well done. Philip R is in hospital with heart and lung problems.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday was humid, warm but cloudy a lot of the time. We drove out to see Anne in the morning, and I proceeded to see Thelma at Cresta Run, her care home, while Dot chatted with Anne. Philip is still in hospital: apparently the pacemaker operation nicked his lung. Thelma seemed well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After lunch Freddie came round to wash the car for \u00a310 \u2013\u00a0a project inspired by Des.\u00a0 While he was bringing us change for a \u00a320 note, David FaceTimed, and they had a chat. Bridget turned up to clean for us while Dot weeded in the front garden, apparently a job I should have done. I ordered fish and cheese from Cley and some jelly from Amazon. Later we watched The October Man<\/em>, an old film which was good in many ways but as so often with old films, stopped before it should have done. Old films are not good on after-effects and implications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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