O Sapientia

My goodness, a week until it's Christmas Eve already! 

By the time I got up this morning the temperature was already rising above zero and stayed there all day into the night. Clare cooked pancakes for our habitual Saturday breakfast. Then we went into town and ordered a salmon from Ashton's to take with us for Christmas, buy some more cards, and investigate reading lamps in John Lewis. We identified one to buy, but there wasn't one in stock apart from the display model, so we had to order one on-line for home delivery when we got home. Hopefully it will arrive before we leave for Kenilworth next Friday. 

We had a drink and a snack in John Lewis, and caught a C1 bus that took us to Cowbridge road shops to buy some cards as we'd forgotten while we were in town. We came out of the shop and saw a 61 bus in the distance. We caught it and were home sooner than expected, cooking lunch late. 

By the time we'd finished and cleared up, the sun was low and it was getting dark by the time I went out for a walk in the park. Several cyclists were riding along the edge of Llandaff Fields with helmets and bikes decorated with LED Christmas lights. In the night time most dogs out with their owners have illuminated collars these days, now they're cheap to acquire and run. It was quiet and deserted away from the road, until I heard a noise sounding like moped with no silencer coming from the Llandaff direction on the footpath, but the approaching bright light was too high to come from a moped. Then a guy with a light on his helmet sped past me standing on a skateboard with a small two stroke engine attached, the sort of engine you'd find on a noisy chainsaw or hedge trimmer. Skateboards with electric motors I've seen out and about, but this outfit was likely to be a DIY enthusiast's home engineering project.

I watched the third and thoughtful concluding episode of 'Granite Harbour'. Strangely, it turns out that Series One has only three episodes encompassing one story. More like a pilot for a series. No report yet of a follow up, though it's been well reviewed. Then I watched 'The Eagle has Landed' premiered in 1976. I've seen it a couple of times over the years since. Michael Caine and Donald Sutherland both look ever so young in it.