After a good night's sleep, early ablutions and dressing change, we were able to get to St Catherine's for the Parish Eucharist, celebrated by a priest who said that he'd been doing a PhD in Cardiff Uni's Theology department. I think he may have been on the staff at St Mike's a while back. He certainly preached us an interesting and scholarly sermon. I was so pleased to be out and about again. Every component of normality helps me on the path to healing I believe.
Clare rushed home afterwards while I chatted, to get an early lunch ready. The nurse appeared just as we finished lunch to change my dressing. Then Clare had to go and meet Rhiannon from a train as she was coming to us in time for an afternoon performance of WNO's 'The Magic Flute'.
It was the first time for her to travel by train unaccompanied, and this entailed a train change, plus a bus trip from Bristol Parkway to Cardiff, due to the weekend closure of the Severn rail tunnel for electrification engineering work. She'll be fifteen at the end of this week, and quite confident, but used to being taken places by car and not needing to travel independently by public transport, although she now uses the train to go from Kenilworth to Coventry.
It was the first time for her to travel by train unaccompanied, and this entailed a train change, plus a bus trip from Bristol Parkway to Cardiff, due to the weekend closure of the Severn rail tunnel for electrification engineering work. She'll be fifteen at the end of this week, and quite confident, but used to being taken places by car and not needing to travel independently by public transport, although she now uses the train to go from Kenilworth to Coventry.
There were no hitches and by two she was tucking into a sandwich prepared for her by grandma before they left for the Millennium Centre. A ticket was bought for me but in the end offered to a friend of Clare's because of the uncertainty about my ability to cope with long spells sitting down. It was a disappointment, but I stayed in an watched several more episodes of 'The River' on More Four Walter Presents. This is yet another drama making the most of the wild winter beauty of Northern Norway's borderland with Finland and Russia. What seems to start as a scandi-noir crimmie, evolves into a spy story which explores the legacy of the Cold War and spotlights contemporary tensions in communities along border regions of this kind. Very thought provoking.
Clare and Rhiannon returned by eight and we had supper together before turning in for the night. It's good to have a lively teenaged grand-daughter in the house again. Kath will come down to collect her on Tuesday.
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