Life on hold

The weather is so strange for mid-June, cool, overcast, bouts of rain and wind, it's more like March and this makes me rather miserable and frustrated. I need to get out and walk for an hour a day, but hate getting wet, and not being able to take photos with my new camera. We're still without the car, as the garage hasn't been able to rectify the fault that left the nearside window half open and the central locking mechanism not working as designed, but annoyingly different. It has to go to a specialist auto electrical place to get fixed and we have no idea how long that will take, just like waiting to hear from the surgeon about the outcome of the last MRI scan.

Clare went out by taxi early, to spend the morning in the University School of Optometry once again, as a volunteer patient being examined for her glaucoma by a succession of trainee optometrists. She is paid a small fee for this which she donates to the St John's Eye Hospital in Jerusalem. She gets a nice thank you email from them eventually. I'd love to take her there one of these days, when I'm fit to travel abroad again. It's one place I didn't visit when I had my nine week sabbatical in the Holy City at the end of 2000. At that time I didn't know about it, as I joined the Order of St John only when I was Vicar of St John's City Parish Church.

Rufus came for lunch and a chat, so I cooked and has everything on the table when he arrived at one, and Clare arrived shortly afterwards, perfect timing. After he left, I went to the wound clinic for my only appointment of the week, mainly to collect supplies but there still hasn't been a delivery of much needed swabs. I called into our GP surgery on Wednesday morning to see if they could help and came away with enough supplies to last until the weekend. I don't know how the District Nurse team copes when they have many more patients far worse off than I. I dread to think what'll happen post brexit.

In the evening, I got around to watching the ninth and last episode of Berlin Station on More Four, as I missed it last night. It was very good indeed, with an ingenious plot which prepares the way for a third set of episodes. It's top quality plausible topical spy fiction. I look forward to series three. The IMDB website tells me that these were already screened last year. I have no idea when they'll be shown on More Four. More waiting meanwhile.