It was a fine warm day, and really very still. The calm before a bit of a storm? It was only when I put this photograph on the screen that I saw the geese in the top right hand corner.

I went to the supermarket on the bike for a few store cupboard necessaries, and took a circuitous route home that took me down to the front at the end of the Trinity Path, and then back along via Newhaven. Most of the middle of the day was spent sitting on the balcony, in what feels almost like a new outdoor 'room' attached to the flat. I finished my book. It was a good read, but in some ways it's a curious thing. In and amongst, I zoomed with the lockdown literature girls, on our regular Saturday 'date'. JDz in Florence was excited about having been to the chocolate shop to buy some posh chocolates, and was planning a trip to the bookstore in the afternoon to see if she could find any of our proposed new reads. We had a good chat, in which - amongst other things - we ended up talking about Greenham Common. Inevitably, of course, we also talked about the different things we were missing, and the things that are hardest, e.g. for other family members. We also had the necessary 'vents' and 'rants' about the communications issued by various governments.

We zoomed in the afternoon with meles, with Mr H popping in occasionally, although he was mainly occupied with making Toad in the Hole. I was happy to show them my wee bit of balcony gardening. Our dinner was a pasta with a sort of pesto-like sauce made by whizzing up various things that were to be found in the fridge. Just as we finished dinner, our new delivery arrived, which permitted us to contemplate what we might fashion for dinner this coming week. In the evening, we watched this performance of Aida, which we found on Marquee TV. Neither of us was wholly grabbed by it, although the singing was uplifting. We found the visual side of it very static and statuesque and the chorus, for example, didn't really look like they were having a good time or really into what they were doing (contrast with the chorus from The Adventures of Pinnochio, which we watched a week or so again, who looked wholly into their job). But Hui He has quite a voice!