I attended the midweek Eucharist at St Catherine's this morning. In the afternoon I had a request to take a second funeral next week. I have one Thursday and one Friday.
Clare called on WhatsApp after lunch, just as she was starting her day in America. She gave me a video tour of Rachel's garden at her new home in Tempe, with its lovely citrus trees all laden with ripe fruit. Suburban housing there seems to have been built in an orchard area, so many properties and the avenues have fruit trees, many of them with the fruit not harvested. They picked olives from a roadside tree and were going to cure and store them as an experiment. Jaz can walk to and from her new school. On her way she sometimes goes scrumping neglected grapefruit, which she loves. It seems the new school is good her her, as she's getting top grades in all her subjects.
Two PTOs in different dioceses means two police checks, and two different invitations to register for access with the on-line update service. I did one successfully last week, and attempted to do the second one today, and ended up unable to access either. Fortunately the .gov.uk help line was able to explain that there was a minor glitch in registering volunteers, who are exempt from paying a fee to access the service. One only registration is required to access both CRB checks it seems. I have yet to pluck up the courage to have another go. I don't need any more frustrations in life at the moment. It will have to wait. The second paper copy should show up in a few days time.
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