Another dull cloudy start to the day. It's Kath's birthday, so I sang a Happy Birthday message to her over WhatsApp, as soon as I got out of bed. At the moment she's sending us lots of photos of scenic places she and Anto have been visiting during their Santa Pola holiday. It's 35C in Alicante Province at the moment, so many of the pictures feature cool tree lined watery places inland.
After breakfast I went to the Eucharist at St Catherine's and was delighted to see a new updated church notice board just installed. It's bi-lingual, with names and email addresses of Fr Andrew and Fr Sion. It even has the QR code for the church website. It was last updated when the former Rectorial Benefice was in place, and Fr Mark was team leader. He moved on five and a half years ago. By that time the existing notice board had been there ten years. Service time changes and new Team Vicars meant changes to the content were effected with a strip of tape over the original. A poor statement about being 'church for others' in our Parish. The update is due to an ex-public relations professional now as priest in charge.
On my way to fetch the veggie bag from Chapter, I shopped for foodbank groceries in Tesco's and dropped them off at St John's. Clare was already cooking a prawn stir fry with rice for lunch when I arrived home. Despite a good night's sleep and not feeling tired, I slept in the chair for three quarters of an hour after we'd eaten. Some days I relax after a meal and don't fall asleep and other days I do. There seems to be no logic to it.
Later in the afternoon I went out and did the week's Coop grocery shopping, then want to Thompson's Park before supper to check on the Moorhens. There was no sight of the chicks or the male bird, only the female dabbling in the mud under the reed bed. I wonder where they have gone?
For a change we watched two engaging programmes on live telly: 'The Repair Shop' and 'Fake or Fortune'. Impressive demonstrations of artisan skills in the first and investigative art expertise in the second. In the evening news, the Israeli army has turned its attention to Iranian backed armed groups in refugee camps in Palestinian West Bank territory in the worst military incursion in twenty years.
Lethal violence by illegal Israeli settlers driving Palestinians from their homes and land has continued unchecked for years. All this contributes to undermining the governing Palestinian Authority and reflects the Netanyahu government's rejection of any settlement leading to a Palestinian state. Total outrageous disregard for the welfare of millions of Palestinians makes the risk of total war in the Middle East seems closer than ever as a result. It's heartbreaking foolishness.
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