Our fifty eighth wedding anniversary today. I went out before breakfast to catch the first mail collection of the day with the letter for Kath, then to Tesco's to buy some flowers for Clare. Grim news of more riots by far right extremists targeting refugee hostels in some English cities, and even one in Belfast. Already there are arrests of identified perpetrators and with speedy court appearances promised by the Prime Minister. As a former chief public prosecutor, he knows what's needed, and probably enjoys the good-will of former colleagues.
Kamala Harris has chosen a Vice Presidential election running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Her choice of a middle of the road Democrat liberal seems to be going down well with everyone apart from Trump who has lamely branded him as a dangerous radical. Both are enjoying the good-will of the party, and hopefully the country when it comes to the elections in November.
After breakfast I walked up to the Cathedral to meet Manel and bring her home for lunch. It must be six years since we last met. There was a lot of catching up to do, enquiries about our generation of HTC congregation members, talk about health, who's moved on and who's died.
She left us at two thirty to return for a siesta, and we went up to the Cathedral for Evensong at five thirty. The choir sang well - a challenge in a building which is three times the size of their home church with a huge organ which is perhaps too loud, even in such a big building. As it's the Feast of the Transfiguration, the congregation numbered about twenty people, many coming to hear a choir they knew from having previously living or visiting Geneva.
After chatting for a while with people we know waiting to greet choristers outside the west door, we returned home for supper. There was a third page missing from my novel print-out which I had to remedy so Clare could continue reading.
I worked on next week's Morning Prayer for a while, then watched another McDonald and Hobbs episode. Unusually, each episode has a celebrity guest actor participating as villain. Rob Bryden in one, Sharon Rooney in another, Alan Davies and Siân Philips in the current. Well, it's different and gives comedians an opportunity to play credibly the sinister side. And so to be.
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