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Dot with a friend at Houghton Hall (see previous post)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Last Tuesday (Sep 24) was showery, but mainly dry. We drove to Beeston Garden Centre caf\u00e9 first thing and met Brian and Tricia. Had breakfast with them. Brian seemed quite a bit better than last time I saw him, and Tricia was OK too. Had bacon and egg sandwich.\u00a0 After about 80 minutes drove home, and Ellie arrived a few minutes later for long talk about life, the universe and everything. She is probably moving to Wales, but there are lots of imponderables. She wanted advice. Became a Christian fairly recently (she is about 60, I guess) and is keen to do the right things. We reassured her!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a light lunch I walked into the city to test the C & C city trail we\u2019re doing in less than a fortnight. Made a few adjustments. It now has 39 questions, which is a multiple of 13; so that\u2019s all right. When I got home we watched an episode of The Chosen <\/em>and then I finished editing my photographs. Wrote up blog. After meal (duck) watched What We Did on our Holidays<\/em>, which is a brilliant film in the style and by the authors of Outnumbered<\/em>. Also watched the second episode of Zelensky documentary.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday was cooler, showery with more persistent rain later. Chose hymns. Wrote card for Cresta Care Home. Discovered where Kim was \u2013 on train to Bath. Judy came round to see The Chosen<\/em> – the episode we’d seen the day before \u2013 and we watched most of it with her. It’s pretty. compelling! Then I drove to church for Bible study, and Dot and Jude followed. Quite cold in church. Afterwards Dot stayed for Taiz\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wrote to Oliver and Amy sending quotes: O was still in Vienna and Amy is no doubt immersing herself in student culture. I drove Dot to orchestra in evening: she found rehearsal hard because quite a few people were away, including her section leader, Janet. I picked her up with Nova in the rain. Dot and I watched Ludwig<\/em> – new series with David Mitchell as puzzle-solver impersonating detective brother. Good stuff.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday was overcast at first, then very wet. Spent quite a long time sorting out charity money! Then walked up to sorting office (before the rain) to post cheques and the card to Cresta Lodge, thanking them for looking after Thelma.\u00a0 Later on watched the final episode of Zelezny: he comes over very well. Bridget came to clean. In the evening we watched the first episode of Nightsleeper<\/em>, which is much better than I thought it would be. Also the latest episode of Slow Horses<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday – Sorted out Mail file. Oliver was home from Vienna. Windy with rain at first, then showers. Bridget left her car in our drive about 9.30 and went by train to Ely to see her sister. We drove to St Luke\u2019s around 11.30 for Andrew Partridge\u2019s funeral. Parked but left car window open, and seats got pretty wet. It was pointed out to us after the service, which was pretty big. Lots of people from the post office, where he worked. He was 57 \u2013 died of sepsis brought on by cellulitis, brought on by diabetes. Lots of nice things said about him. We sat near the music group: Nicky, Steve and a couple of women whose names I ought to know. A guy named Graham (Irish) sat next to us. Couldn\u2019t place him in my mind, but apparently he used to worship at St Luke\u2019s. No-one from St Augustine\u2019s apart from us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Food and drink afterwards. Spoke to lots of people: Val Kibble, who is in a bad way; John and Jean; Elizabeth, who I sort of recognised – very nice; Karen Wimhurst; Sam Pittam-Smith; and a guy called Steve from Evesham, who was in a wheelchair but amazingly self-contained \u2013 has his own van, which he drives and where he can sleep and look after himself. He had driven down from Worcester and is married (though his wife can\u2019t drive because she\u2019s visually impaired). He knew Andrew from Norwich (Witard Road Baptist) and is very positive about life. Now worships at Evesham Salvation Army, and it is growing \u2013\u00a0he feels that churches generally are growing. Uplifting sort of time: Graham K-S led very well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later Bridget called in as I was cooking supper and had a cup of tea. Stayed while we ate it. Always good to see her. After she\u2019d gone we watched Nightsleeper <\/em>– have now seen two thirds of it – plus Death in Paradise<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday was quite chilly \u2013 summer seems to be over \u2013\u00a0but dry. Watched England win at cricket, then Dot did a lot of meal preparation, with a bit of help from me, and Kristine arrived on the 12.44 train. I met her and took her the \u201dpretty way\u201d so that Dot had time to change. Had a cup of tea, then a lovely meal – salmon tart and pavlova, plus a very tasty avocado starter prepared by Dot.\u00a0 Talked a lot during afternoon, and I showed some of our pictures on screen. Meanwhile Norwich beat Derby 3-2 away, with the help of a dodgy goal (ball out of play). About time we had a bit of luck. Kristine missed the train she meant to catch because of a phone glitch – it ran out of charge after she showed the ticket on arrival \u2013 so had to buy a new ticket and left on the 18.32. We cleared up before she reached Ipswich, and I wrote the prayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today it is still chilly but the wind has gone. Bit cloudy. Drove to church \u2013\u00a0it was a joint service led by Graham (Michaelmas). I did the prayers, and as music group we had Matt, Dot, Steve Fiske and me. Felt good. Apparently Anna has migraine, and Howard is in London. About five people from St Luke’s. Had quite a good chat afterwards, while eating food left over from the funeral. Gave Ray a lift home as usual. Angel Road shut as usual. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Tuesday (Sep 24) was showery, but mainly dry. We drove to Beeston Garden Centre caf\u00e9 first thing and met Brian and Tricia. Had breakfast with them. Brian seemed quite a bit better than last time I saw him, and Tricia was OK too. Had bacon and egg sandwich.\u00a0 After about 80 minutes drove home, … Continue reading Winter approaching<\/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-6655","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\/6655","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=6655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6657,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655\/revisions\/6657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}