I stayed in bed until nine and caught up on lost sleep. After breakfast I worked on my Sunday sermon, then cooked lunch and went for a walk in the park.
Fran and Mark came at three, and gave us a preview of their reflective presentation on the icon of the Annunciation, which they'll be offering to a live audience over in Stroud this weekend. We were privileged to have a preview, and offer comments. Fran talks about the meaning of the icon she painted and Mark plays interludes from a baroque passacaglica, with a full recital at the end of the forty minute talk. How they present words and music is still a work in progress for them. It's great to have been invited to be part of the process.
Early evening, Clare went out to Conway Road Methodist church for a concert by RWCMD students of excerpts from German operas. I had already reserved my place in front of the telly for the season finale of 'Usedom-Krimi'. Top class telly, and most of the German was easy enough to understand whether or not you looked at the sub-titles. If only it was so easy when travelling in the FDR. There's enough unfinished relational issues in this storyline (crimes notwithstanding), to ensure another season, maybe next year.
This evening's episode centred on the domestic life of a trio of ageing hippies, and a tragic incident connected by chance to a failed suicide attempt by a terminally sick man, who then loses his memory. At the heart of it is the pastoral approach of the series heroine to engaging with people overtaken by events they fail to control, and not for the first time in this series. Clare got back from the concert in time to sit and watch the first half with me, and drink a glass of pinot noir. She's feeling better for sure, but still being careful with her back.
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