{"id":6882,"date":"2025-08-06T11:45:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T11:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=6882"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:45:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T11:45:05","slug":"drop-in-day-from-oliver-sophie-and-amy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=6882","title":{"rendered":"Drop-in day from Oliver, Sophie and Amy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Oliver, Sophie and Amy in Jarrolds<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Friday, August 1 – Some rain and sun; windy later. Booked c\u00f4te brasserie for Andrew\u2019s birthday; also Snape for a concert next Friday (National Youth Orchestra) and Assembly House Afternoon Tea – a birthday gift from Cake and Compline. In the afternoon Dot and I practised songs for (as we thought) tomorrow, then I did the charity money.  Then out for street meet – windy, but sunny. Des and Chris, Jon, Angela (but not Matt). Saw Mary briefly : she has shingles. Again. Fish from different shop not quite so good, or maybe I wasn\u2019t hungry. Watched cricket and a couple of other things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday started grey and chilly, but became sunnier and warmer as we moved north. We had been intending to go to James Knox Whittet\u2019s for lunch and some music (we had three or four songs ready) but his wife Ann was ill with a lung infection, and it was cancelled. So we drove to the Jarrolds caf\u00e9 near Letheringsett and had a lovely lunch of toasted chiabatta (in my case with egg, chives and watercress). I also had two iced peach teas. Then we bought some food from the adjacent shop after viewing the gardens (impressive). We then went to Morston and walked out to the marshes opposite the blue house at Blakeney Point. Very few people about: sunny and warm. Felt blessed. Stopped off at reopened Anchor Inn for cider: they\u2019ve done the place out beautifully. Then home, popping in to Morrisons on the way for petrol. Dot drove all day. Cooked pies and watched cricket. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday was quite warm, but with light rain at times. Drove to church intending to have chat with Graham afterwards (he said he was coming down after the St Luke\u2019s service), but this went slightly wrong because (a) he was late and (b) Harriet had a major collapse, having walked to church with her dog after being in hospital for three days. Paramedics were called, and she was eventually taken away in an ambulance. Meanwhile we fixed an appointment with Graham for the next day, and then took Ray home. He seemed even less well than usual and is on regular Co-codamol. We went home and had lunch, then did some reading. Later watched cricket and ate sausages. Also watched end of Karen Pirie<\/em>: police procedural. Very well done but don\u2019t like what she wears. As if that mattered. Walked extra steps in kitchen to bring day\u2019s up\u00a0to 4000. As if that mattered.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday – A little light rain and a bit windy, but reasonably warm. Tried to get blood test results again, but no luck. Must be a clot somewhere. I know what you\u2019re thinking. Took Dot to violin lesson in the morning and did some picture editing. Met her in Prince of Wales Road. Graham arrived by bike and we had a chat about our plan to \u201cretire\u201d from church, in the sense that we would step back for a while. He didn\u2019t necessarily agree with our reasons, but was very kind and saw it as a \u201cseason change\u201d thing, which we do too. Big step, though we are happy about it. Called Judy to let her know, and wrote to Phil.  Afterwards went to shop to buy food for tomorrow. I cooked salmon and watched the cricket, which was very exciting and I think a fair result. (India won by six runs, which meant the series was drawn.) Read quite a bit and went to bed quite early. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday was dry and windy, but quite warm. To Town House for Archant breakfast. I had a slightly smaller version than usual , and Dot just had coffee. Tricia was there, and we were joined eventually by Robin and Shelagh, and also by Bill Woodcock, then by John Rogers, a former photographer who I vaguely remembered. He had a number of memorable pix he had taken, including the first one of The Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, when he went to court. Sadly we had to leave earlier than we would have liked because we had a full day: Linda was coming to cut our hair, and Oliver, Amy and Sophie arrived at roughly the same time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trio had a drink, then went into town while Linda finished and I had a quick bath. We got the bus up and met them on Castle Meadow after a Park and Ride driver took us up without charging us. I didn\u2019t know that our bus cards were not valid on P&R. I also didn\u2019t know that the bus stop \u201cspoke\u201d to us about the schedule. A little boy did it while we were waiting. After walking through the Arcade we went into Jarrolds for drinks, olives, nuts and dipping bread. Then to Scandinavian shop while Dot visited Thorns, and Oliver and I popped into a Norwich City shop in Jarrolds. I had forgotten it was there. Bought a few things in Scandinavian shop, then home via Elm Hill and the riverside path. Got very tired and had to stop a couple of times. After a rest at home and looking at a few pictures on screen (plus an episode of Outnumbered<\/em>) we had our evening meal \u2013 a complex Indian affair put together largely by Oliver and  Dot. Nice, though. Oliver, Sophie and Amy left at about 9.30, just as David was calling them on FaceTime, and we cleared up. It was great to see them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday, August 1 – Some rain and sun; windy later. Booked c\u00f4te brasserie for Andrew\u2019s birthday; also Snape for a concert next Friday (National Youth Orchestra) and Assembly House Afternoon Tea – a birthday gift from Cake and Compline. In the afternoon Dot and I practised songs for (as we thought) tomorrow, then I did … Continue reading Drop-in day from Oliver, Sophie and Amy<\/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-6882","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\/6882","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=6882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6884,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882\/revisions\/6884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}