Not over until it's over?

Clare and I did our stint of duty at St Catherine's this morning, lesson reading, welcoming and checking in worshippers contact details as they arrived. For me it's quite a change, and one which I enjoy. A great way of getting to know members of the congregation. We were down to two dozen today, as there was an on-line family worship session in the afternoon. Emma reminded us that it was Orthodox Easter Sunday, so when we got home, I emailed paschal greetings to Dr Laura Ciobanu in Romania

After lunch we walked up and down both banks of the Taff, from Blackweir Bridge to Western Avenue, and got back home just after Mark Elton's on-line concert recital at Pentyrch church began. It's the second he's done there with a harpsichord player Despina Homatidou who teaches at RWCMD, and happens to be Greek Orthodox. At the end of the concert she wished viewers a happy Orthodox Easter, which made me smile.

After supper, another lovely episode of 'Call the Midwife', full of kindness and social issues, and then the last episode of series six of Line of Duty, dramatically spun out until the very last with the history of all six series' crimes unravelled and solved, but without finally exposing the deeper level of institutionalised establishment corruption. Too hard, too big to eradicate when, like covid, it's endemic in society  It's supposed to be the end of the saga, although I think I spot one or two loose threads in the narrative which could be picked up in a seventh series if this was decided upon. 

A key absence in this episode was the Asian Police Crime Commissioner. Given there were three black murder victims plus an Asian cop framed and banged up only to be acquitted just before the credits rolled. Surely there's room for a drama about how the police are, or aren't addressing institutional racism. Sure, there are BAME cops in real life as well as in 'Line of Duty' but a dramatic exploration of the issues some of them face would be timely. So maybe next time? Given the huge popularity of this series, I wouldn't be surprised to see another. Thought provoking entertainment.