Toxic vengeance

Another poor night's sleep and miserable morning feeling tired with a thick head. Terrible news of a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach in Australia. Attacks on synagogues have occurred recently in several parts of the world, pointless retaliation for the Israeli government's war waged on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Injustice and violence breed injustice and violence. How can the vicious cycle be ended in which enraged people seek satisfaction by making victims of each other? Will we never understand how poisonous and soul destroying this is?

We made an effort to go to St Catherine's for the Parish Eucharist. A kind lady in church gave us some croissant shaped almond pastries stuffed with marzipan. We had these for pudding along with mince pies and apple pie Clare baked.

I slept for an hour after we'd eaten. Kath and Clare went out to Tesco's while I was asleep and bought a bedroom dehumidifier. I get chilly at night when I need to get up for a pee and it takes so much longer to get back to sleep. It's not that the room suffers from cold and damp as such. If there's a frost, the room feels less cold. t's less humid. I think it's something to do with prevailing wind pushing damp air down the chimney through a poorly sealed off fireplace. I remember having similar problems keeping warm when I was staying in Ibiza. Using a bedroom dehumidifier was necessary to make the room comfortable to sleep in when it wasn't especially cold. I hope this works. I've been losing too much sleep, no matter how many blankets or layers of bed clothes I wear at night.

I walked for an hour after waking from my siesta. Clare and Kath were out too, visiting a neighbourhood Christmas market in Plasturton Gardens, but we didn't meet. When I got home I found the dehumidifier installed and at work in the bedroom. Kath took her leave of us as it was getting dark. It was lovely to have her with us again for twenty four hours.

After supper I watched another episode of 'Les Invisibles' and one of 'Above Suspicion', that turned out to be one I'd watched before.