{"id":6428,"date":"2023-12-12T11:54:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T11:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=6428"},"modified":"2023-12-12T11:54:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T11:54:22","slug":"lovely-final-day-for-dot-in-diocesan-schools-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=6428","title":{"rendered":"Lovely final day for Dot in diocesan schools role"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Bouquet awarded at the Marlingford Bell as Dot came to the end of her 15 years as a DSSO<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Thursday the 7th was a big day, but mainly dull and chilly. Dot was up early to attend her last DSSO meeting, followed by a Christmas meal at the Marlingford Bell, which I am told was excellent. She was given some flowers and a Jarrolds voucher, and lots of nice things were said about her \u2013 quite rightly. She is a star. Her boss also said some nice things about my poetry; he had found a couple of books at his late mother\u2019s house. Dot was very tired when she got home and decided not to go handbell-ringing at the Greens\u2019. She wrapped a couple of presents and we compared card lists. We’re all behind this year, of course. Watched the last episode of Shetland<\/em> \u2013 quite good \u2013 and the next episode of Slow Horses<\/em> \u2013 brilliant, as always.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite a bit of sun on Friday, and it got milder towards the end of the day. Julia and Allan called in an hour before we expected them, which meant I was still in the bath. Still, I was on the way out and quickly joined them for tea and biscuits. After they left Dot went to shop, and I posted a letter before getting some cash out in the station. Instead of street meet, we went round Sarah\u2019s with some wine and had a really nice time chatting to her.\u00a0 Fixed a date for New Year\u2019s party instead of our usual Christmas one. I then cooked some salmon and we watched a couple of things on TV. I had taken some paracetamol earlier and felt quite good. Ironically, when I catheterised, there was quite a lot of blood in my urine.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday was milder, but damp and grey. Mum\u2019s birthday: she would have been 112. Have been feeling quite odd. Wrote most of a possible Christmas letter, mainly while Dot was at Carrow Road, where Norwich should have beaten Preston NE but drew 0-0. Practised guitar for the first time in over two months, intending to take it to church tomorrow if I feel OK. Watched Dr Who<\/em> and a couple of episodes of Hidden Assets<\/em> (Belgian-Irish thriller, if you can imagine that), which is very good. Cooked chilli con carne.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday’s milder: dry in the morning and evening; rain in the afternoon. Went to church in the morning and played guitar for the first time for at least a couple of months. Martin and Dot\u00a0 the only others in the band; nice service, Communion led by Graham. Afterwards took Ray home. Watched quite a bit of TV. Spurs won 4-1 against Newcastle. Watched strange but good film called Phantom Thread<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday was chillier than I expected, but dry. Accompanied Dot to Newton Flotman school to pick up some sugar; we then went to Morrisons for a few items but were home just after midday. Dot counted the sugar and noted it on her table. Put bins out, and for some reason felt quite ill – took paracetamol and lay down for a while. Still shaky when we drove to Eleanor\u2019s for Christmas cake and compline, then gradually felt better. Had wine and cake and some nibbles. Bridget did a quiz that Claire won, and I led the Advent compline we had at Quiet Waters. By the end of the evening I felt much better. Everyone very kind and said they would pray for me on Saturday. Everyone at C&C: Eleanor, Dot and me, Judy, Bridget and David, Vicky, Claire, Phil.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday the 7th was a big day, but mainly dull and chilly. Dot was up early to attend her last DSSO meeting, followed by a Christmas meal at the Marlingford Bell, which I am told was excellent. She was given some flowers and a Jarrolds voucher, and lots of nice things were said about her … Continue reading Lovely final day for Dot in diocesan schools role<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6428","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\/6428","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=6428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6430,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428\/revisions\/6430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}