A bright sunny start to the day, though it clouded over later. I was relieved not to be as tired and stiff in the limbs as I thought I'd be today. We went with Clare to the Eucharist at St Catherine's. With Sunday Club back in action there were over fifty in church, ten of them children. We went straight home for lunch instead of socialising after the service.
After we'd eaten I went out for a walk around Thompson's Park. With the help of Google I identified the song of a nuthatch perching quite near me on a bare branch, but couldn't get my camera out fast enough to take a photo. I heard the same song in the distance from a tree on the other side. When I walked to where the song was coming from I glimpsed two nuthatches high up, but the sight lines weren't good, and they flew off together before I could take aim.
By way of compensation I took a few good photos of a blue tit and a couple of starlings perched high up. I started to feel cold and in need of a siesta, so I returned home and slept in the chair for an hour, then went out again invigorated to complete my daily step quota.
The aid blockade on Gaza continues, and Palestinians are being killed despite the cease-fire. Meanwhile the Americans are bombing Houthi rebel military targets to counter threats made to attack ships in the Red Sea in 'protest' at the aid blockade. Netanyahu has dismissed the head of Sin Beth alleging 'disloyalty' by the head of an agency head that is meant to be neutral and independent in its security intelligence role and is being criticised for having done so. No progress in this conflict, and no change on cease-fire talks in the Russia-Ukraine conflict too, except that Ukraine is losing territory taken in the Kursk region, losing some of the territorial bargaining power it had gained.
After supper I watched a double episode of 'Astrid - murders in Paris', and then it was time for bed.
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