After breakfast a morning of housework, preparing and emailing out next Sunday's scripture readings for the Sunday Eucharist. Clare cooked herself fish and veg for lunch, while I had the second portion of what I cooked for lunch yesterday. I drove her to another session with the homeopath in Thornhill afterwards. While I waited, I walked around the neighbourhood park six times in a hour.
As today is a Bank Holiday there was little traffic on the road shortening the journey ten minutes each way, a third of the usual journey time. It shows what a difference vehicle congestion makes in a city served by a legacy road system. Work on improving the road alongside Llandaff Fields isn't completed. Temporary pedestrian crossing lights are still in use, a stretch of pavement needs completion and markings for the planned bus lane have yet to be painted on the road. Another fortnight is needed I reckon.
More messaging this evening to do with arrangements for the parish Sway newsletter and its distribution, but plenty of time to watch another episode of Lolita Lobosco, now the server demand for this has either subsided or been improved. This is indeed, high class Italian movie story telling. The author behind the ten episodes listed on IMDB is Gabriella Genesi. She's married to Luca Zingaretti who played Inspector Montalbano and took over running the Montalbano TV series movie production company after the original producer died half way through.
So, it's no wonder the entire presentation of the stories feels familiar, although that's not to say they are formulaic, only that there's a distinctive sympathetic narrative style to them. The portrayal of persisting traditional old town quarter life in a Puglian port is delightful, and certainly not as squalid as it might have been when we passed through Bari en route for Athens by ferryboat back in 1967.
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