One Day More

Thursday. 5.00 a.m. Yet another calm and, what I would say, uninspiring day on the weather front. The digital thermometer currently reads 23ºC. 

The title is a song from the musical, 'Les Misérables.'

Friday. 5.00 a.m. An entire day without me reporting ANYTHING! How unusual is that!

I'm getting comments to some of my earlier posts, on my school days. But whoever it was has decided to remain anonymous, which is a bit of a cheek. Why? Never mind. That's the internet, you can make comments but still hide your identity.

The Acorn's playgroup wasn't meeting at the Oaktree Centre yesterday morning. They had gone off to Gulliver's theme park for the day, leaving it incredibly quiet, so my Bible study group met in the café area. 

3.50 p.m. The digital thermometer currently reads 27ºC. According to the weather forecast on BBC Breakfast this morning, it seems likely we're to have the heatwave back. I have both electric fans on at the moment.

Saturday. 5.20 a.m. Another warm but pleasant morning. Having taken Alfie out as far as Oldbrook Green, I was struck by the beautiful clouds, tinged with pink, and looking for all the world very much like a Maxfield Parrish painting. For those who have never heard of this American artist, he was known for his, what I suppose you would call, a hyperrealist style of painting.

Yesterday evening, all those involved with the Acorns' playgroup at the Oaktree Centre, met at the Nut and Squirrel pub in Westcroft, which is next door to the Morrisons supermarket, to have a meal together. I had lasagne followed by apple pie and custard. This is where the men's breakfast group met a few weeks ago (as reported in an earlier blog post.)

Currently, the digital thermometer reads 27ºC.

11.15 a.m. I went to men's breakfast a little before 9 this morning. We had our usual fried food, tea and coffee and then someone did a talk on 'Truth'. In the midst of all this, there were several claps of thunder and then the heavens opened (almost Biblical in its epic sort of way, as these things often are.) After several weeks of a heatwave, it did bring a certain sort of relief.