It's the feast of the Assumption today, signalling the end of summer holidays in Europe and the return to school for the kids in the coming week. Our holiday making season still has another couple of weeks to run. School exam results continue to be a bone of contention causing so much uncertainty for so many youngsters about to leave school for college or university. As if living with the pandemic wasn't already overloading us all with uncertainty.
It's another overcast misty day, with no wind to drive the clouds away. Clare cooked pancakes for breakfast, eaten today with fresh fruit jam she made yesterday from a surfeit of ripe plums and greengages. So the label on the three jars calls it 'Plumgage Jam' - delicious!
I went to the King's Road pharmacy to collect my prescription and was disappointed to find that it isn't open weekends. As the surgery now sends prescriptions by default direct to the pharmacy across the road for patients to collect later, this is unfortunate for any who work away during the week and are obliged to collect medication when they return. I believe it's possible to arrange for a script to be sent to a different pharmacy - fine if you know it in advance, however ....
I spent some time sorting uploaded Oxwich photos into suitable albums, and emailing weblinks to the children, then cooked a vegetable paella for lunch, one version for Clare avoiding things banned by her anti-arthritis diet, and another for myself, including them. We then walked up the Taff to Llandaff Weir. It didn't rain, but we got damp anyway due to the high humidity.
In the evening, we watched a programme on S4C about the visit last year to perform at a spring festival in New Orleans by the Welsh speaking North Walian brass octet 'Llaregub'. It's only recently we heard them for the first time in this year's on-line National Eisteddfod closing concert broadcast on S4C. They are an excellent swing band and their American audience received them with delight and enthusiasm. Another source of pride in our performers. "Praise the Lord, we are a musical nation!" as Organ Morgan said in Dylan Thomas' play 'Under Milk Wood'.
After that we watched a programme about the making and subsequent popularity of the award winning family sit-com 'Gavin and Stacey', an interesting account of the series and its endearingly positive and hilarious take on the relationships between two families, bound together by the marriage of this couple of young lovers. The series put Barry Island on the map as a go-to South Wales holiday resort, which now attracts visitors from fans from all over the world.
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