Let’s have a concert in the garden!

It’s been rather grey and damp but there was no rain today.

After another good night, I had a walk this morning and went for a socially distanced chat in Margret’s garden. The slightest slope is hard, but we made it.

Hannah and I consumed Liz’s butternut squash soup for lunch.

Julie came and we had a lovely chat in the garden. We also walked around once, like grand ladies, “taking a turn around the garden”!

Then it was the first talk (for me) of the book festival. Olivetti * and Angela Saini** were interviewed about Pseudoscience and Slavery. Later I heard Joan Bakewell interview Val McDermid. The latter are both consummate performers.

Hannah and I cooked a fish pie which was delicious.

Last night we had very worrying news from our friend Maureen who had been rushed into hospital with an internal bleed. She was being transfused. Today came the excellent news that the cause is a duodenal ulcer and nothing malignant.

This was the reason for a grand celebratory concert in the garden!

* Olivetti Otele, writing about her research into the history of slavery in Bristol wrote: “There will be challenges, but those are part of the healing process. A city’s memory is truly collective when each community has found ways to acknowledge the past and address the social inequalities created by it. What is happening now in Bristol is truly inspirational. It’s history in the making.”

** Angela Saini, writing about Dalton and Eugenics in the Guardian: “......dividing the world into good guys and bad guys allows us to wash our hands of moral complexity. The danger lies not just with the bad guys but with every one of us, and it is always there.”