Archbishop's unprecedented resignation

After a sunny start to the day, cloud returned to fill the sky mid morning. After breakfast I drove Clare to the eye hospital, as the eye that's still healing after last month's operation seems to have acquired some minor infection and was giving cause for concern. Within ten minutes of my return, she came back by taxi, having been refused an examination or a place in the queue. She was referred back to the University School of Optometry for evaluation before she can be seen this afternoon. This she would have done if it wasn't for the fact that she was unable to get through to the UHW eye clinic by phone for advice. She then walked to Cathays, and had to wait a long time there to be seen. 

I cooked and ate lunch in Clare's absence, then drove to Cathays to collect her. Before she could sit down and eat her late lunch, someone rang from the UHW eye clinic and offered her an appointment at the end of the afternoon. It's good to see that co-ordination between the two clinic works well in favour of patients needing to be seen urgently. I went to the Pharmacy to collect the prescription she'd been given while she was eating, then  walked in the park for an hour and a half, expecting to drive her back to UHW by five. When I got back, she'd already left, walking to UHW, and she took a taxi back, saving me two journeys in rush hour traffic, one in the dark. That was a relief - to hell with the expense.

I went out before supper to buy a few things from Tesco's, and spent the evening watching more episodes of 'Those who kill'. It's a slow moving detailed police procedural, mixed with glimpses of the domestic life of both police and criminal families, quite interesting but not all that dramatically engaging.

Archbishop Justin announced his resignation at lunchtime, acknowledging, as already stated publicly that his position was untenable, with the loss of confidence in his leadership. I imagine that in ancient times Bishops could be deposed as a result of power struggles between patrons of the nobility, but to quit under public pressure is something else. It's said to be the first time this has ever happened. The Bishop of Lincoln is also said to be under pressure to resign for the same reason.