Chilly Weather

Wednesday. 6.15 a.m. Alfie and I were out at around 5.40 this morning. We did another circuit of Oldbrook Green. It is actually quite chilly out.

10.00 a.m. I had home contents covered with Sainsbury's bank. I've been with them for two years. I had a reasonably good deal, and as a sort of incentive, I got double Nectar points when I shopped in Sainsbury's supermarket. But I got an email, informing me that my policy was ending and that the Nectar incentive was ending, which was a pity. So, I decided to find an alternative policy, so I went on the Compare The Market website and went for an Admiral Contents policy. Actually a bit cheaper. It is now set up and the deposit has been paid and the Sainsbury's bank policy has been cancelled. It just goes to show how easy it is to arrange such things as insurance and why so many of these businesses no longer have bricks and mortar establishments on the high street.

4.10 p.m. I have now cut and pasted a further writing section into my writing 'project. It now has a word count of 40,000, which is quite impressive, even if I say so myself. It needs a great deal more work doing on it, editing and rewriting before it is anywhere complete.

I am currently reading 'Les Misérables' by Victor Hugo. It is the basis for the musical (as if you didn't already know that.) I have seen the original West End production as well as the touring production, which came to Milton Keynes in 2019 and visited again last year. I have also seen the film adaptation as well as the more recent nonmusical  BBC adaptation of the novel, with a script by Andrew Davies. Not only that, but I had already read a version, but this is a Penguin Classics edition and uses a brand-new translation. I am interested in how the story is told, and how the various elements of plot and character and linked, which is what I am endeavouring to achieve with my writing. Some of the plots in the stage musical were difficult to comprehend, and it wasn't until I read the novel that I realized that some characters are related. With the print version of the novel, there are notes which help to clear up some of the background to how it was written and explain a lot of the details, which makes reading it more worthwhile.

Thursday. 6.30 a.m. It was light enough for me to take Alfie out at 5.45 this morning. I think it was a surprise to him when I went into the bedroom and picked him up to go out. He is usually barking noisily when I get ready to go out. If I so much as touch his lead, he starts barking.

Friday. 6.55 a.m. Last night there was a members' meeting at the Oaktree Centre. It was mainly about changes to the governance of S.C.F. (Shenley Christian Fellowship.) A chance to discuss any changes, which won't be implemented until the whole situation has been discussed and ideas put forward. This ended at 9.30 and then I went home and ate apple and blackberry pie, which I hadn't eaten with my evening meal.  I think it was gone at midnight when I eventually went to bed, and that it probably the reason I didn't wake up until 5.40 or thereabouts. I took a  very sleepy Alfie out, much to his amazement.