More wind, rain and hail today, as well as sunny spells. I posted today's Morning Prayer link to WhatsApp an hour later than usual, as I woke early and then went back to sleep. Another morning of work preparing next week's uploads, and then I cooked lunch. Clare had a telephone consultation about her back injury and then was invited into the surgery for a reassuring physical check-up. No broken or cracked bones, just a torn muscle, as she thought. It's going to take a while to heal.
I went down to St John's to leave a couple of scripts for next Friday's reflection at the foot of the cross, for Andrew, and Monica the organist to pick up on Sunday morning. There'll be three of us reading during the midday service. Now Clare and I have to record the same for the Parish Good Friday digital offering. I may have been away from services this last two weeks, but there's been plenty of work to do meanwhile.
Late afternoon I walked around the park, and discovered that there were still Urdd rugby matches going on, only now with the senior youth level teams, big players, of an age where they might be called up to play for Wales. Rain during the day made sure all were well coated with mud.
Two small sculptures have appeared in Llandaff Fields, both are Snoopy Figures, one as plain as the cartoon character on the page, the other decorated with an assortment of urban images in bright colours.
They promote the work of an organisation called The Dogs Trust. Given the hundreds of dogs that are walked in the parks daily It suppose there's some sort of logic to it. Whether they are temporary or permanent installations I'm not sure. Notices are affixed dissuading people from climbing on them, but the children small enough to want to clamber on them are likely to be too young to read.
After supper I started watching an episode of 'Vera' but Owain rang up and I lost interest in the plot, but found the first episode on BBC 2 of a new series called 'The Art that Made us', all about British identity and how it has evolved over the past fifteen hundred years, as witnessed in its creative arts. It was just wonderful to hear experts taking about culture enthusiastically and not in an abstract intellectual way. Must ensure the rest of this series is on my TV watch list.
Today Russia has been expelled from the UN Human Rights Council, in the light of reports of war crimes in Ukraine. It wasn't unanimous, and it seems some countries were threatened with 'consequences' if they voted for expulsion. Forces are building up in the Eastern Donbass region, which Russia aims to annexe. It has its eyes on the region's fossil fuel reserves. As if fighting the war wasn't enough of an assault on the environment already.
I tested myself before bed. Still positive, but now far less likely to be infectious as each day passes.
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