Today, a return to bright clear sky and pleasant warmth. I walked to St Andrew's to celebrate Eucharist and preach about the last of the bible studies on Psalms of lament. I nearly forgot to record it for distribution, and had to restart the sermon after reading a few lines to be sure of having the whole of it. There were nine of us again.
Clare joined us later for coffee and chat after doing some planned shopping to cater for the family arriving Friday. Recently she's been knitting baby blanket squares lately for a Canton parish effort, but has run out of wool since arriving. We googled and found a mereceria we've walked past many times, without noticing, just opposite the Municipal Market, and it was open this morning.
For lunch I bought and cooked merluzas pequinitas (baby hake). I steam them, to make the most of their delicate flavour, something I learned many years ago on locum duty, maybe in Nerja, maybe here.
It must be something to do with getting old, that we spend so much more time planning ahead. Ten weeks here already, one more to go. Quite apart from another big catering expedition to Aldi's this afternoon, for the coming family weekend, our return journey and planning the final handover and train to the airport, eight days from now needed to be arranged. For the first time since last December I tracked down our separate booking confirmation details for the flight to Bristol, checked us both in and acquired the boarding passes. Fiddly, but no glitches thankfully.
With Ruth's email of Easter week Morning prayer texts, I was in a position to record the office to go with the biblical Reflection already recorded. I'll be able to finish the job tomorrow and that will be the last of my preparatory tasks until I return to Cardiff.
Time relaxing in front of the telly after supper with a mix of Semana Santa and old car restoration programmes. Nothing too stimulation after the demands of EasyJet's confusing booking website, with its plethora of choices you don't need if all you need to do is fly!
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