A cooler cloudy day, up at eight after a good night's sleep. A very good 'Thought for the Day' this morning from David Wilkinson, Principal of St John's College Durham, which gave me a new angle of insight on the Beatitudes in Matthew's Gospel. Housework after breakfast, then sending out the texts for next Sunday's readings, editing next week's Sway and spending rest of the morning recording and editing talks for Basma and a Reflection for the week after next.
After a curry made by Clare for lunch, I drove her to the Nuffield Hospital down in Cardiff Bay, where she had arranged an eye appointment to get a second opinion about a proposed procedure. She came away reassured by what she learned about the reasons behind her surgeon's plan. Then we drove to Cathays to the Uni School of Optometry for a repair to her special varifocal spec's, from which she'd lost one of the nose pads. meanwhile I had an exchange of messages with Martin, who's now returned from Petra to Aquaba, a seaside resort which he described as being 'a bit like Ali Baba meets Barry Island'.
I walked in the park for a couple of hours before supper. Clare went out to her meditation group only to discover she'd got the day wrong. While she was out I recorded and edited next week's Morning Prayer and then settle down to watch a couple more episodes of 'The Drought'. The investigation of a twenty year old murder is very complex, involving an assortment of corrupt people with murky back stories.
It's very slow paced, as it doesn't gloss over any of the painstaking detail which is necessary to work out a narrative for a series of inter-related cross border events past and present. I think it gains a lot from this approach. It has been compared to the Scandi noir series 'The Bridge', except that the murders aren't bizarre or vixtims of a crazy serial killer, but something more mundane - powerful people manipulating all around them to avoid losing power and privilege.
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