Awake again in time for 'Thought for the Day'. Good to have that consistency, even if my bed time hours vary along with night time wakefulness, but averaging over seven and a quarter hours sleep seems to work in my favour. Light cloud, but not overcast, and no strong winds.
After breakfast, thinking about Sunday's sermon, I realised I'd not yet installed my office HP lazer printer software on my Linux workstation, so I powered up the printer, then booted up the computer, expecting to delve into a software repository to find printer drivers. To my surprise, the computer recognised the printer automatically, there was nothing else to do. When I think of times past, on Windows and Linux driven machines, the time needed to install printer software, and reinstall a different version when a new operating system came along, this is most welcome. A lot of improvement has taken place in terms of ease of use in the past ten years. It used to be a fiddle to persuade a Chromebook to attach to any printer, now it's utterly simple. What everyone needs.
I spent the morning actually writing the sermon. It's St Paul's Patronal Festival weekend, though readings for Epiphany 3 will be used. Fortunately they are quite suitable for the occasion. Clare made a fish pie for lunch and I prepared the veggies for cooking. I still had more work to do on the sermon after lunch, also a few more downloads of photo albums for transfer to hard drive storage in order to free up space in Google photos and avoid nags about running out of space. Then I went for a walk up the Gabalfa side of the Taff trail as far as the Llandaff North road bridge, and returned home through Llandaff village and the Fields as the sun set.
After supper I had a long catch-up conversation with Ashley, who's been out of circulation due to illness and misfortune for the past year, but he's now recovering. Then I watched an episode of 'Greyzone' which made me think I've seen it before. It dates from 2018, and when I checked the series Wikpedia I found it was first aired on Channel 4's Walter Presents early in 2019.
Another round of hostage releases in Gaza tomorrow, four women have been named. 200 Palestinian prisoners will also be set free, though their names are yet to be released. So far the ceasefire is holding, thank God. Friday prayers were held today in the ruins of Gaza's main Al Omari mosque, the floor space cleared and decked with an assortment of carpets in the short video clip I saw. The world waits to see what will happen at the end of the six week pause in fighting, with no idea of what will happen next.
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