Cold, windy and mainly overcast today. I had an uncomfortable, not very relaxed night's sleep and got up late. I turned the exceedingly heavy mattress on which I sleep in the hope that it will make a difference. A new one is needed but I dread having to make a choice without trying it out for several weeks. Removing the old one isn't a task I could manage on my own. Getting it down narrow stairs needs at least two people stronger than I, maybe three. After breakfast, housework. Since last Monday I've had my hair cut short and the hoover hasn't been used on the carpets since then. I did my room first, then extracted all the entangled hair from the roller brush, then did the same for Clare's. Ample justification for changing hairstyle, hardly any from hers compared to mine. I've been shedding far more of my long hair that I realised over the past few years.
I cooked a seafood paella for lunch using the Valencian rice given to me by Veronica when we were in L'Escala, an enjoyable thing to do. It turned out well. The texture of Spanish rice is something I appreciate cooking with. I dozed in the chair after we'd eaten and then went for a walk, calling in at the nearest Coop for tomatoes and olives on the way back. It drizzled intermittently throughout, feeling more like mid-March than the end of May.
After supper I found a new Finnish crimmie to watch called 'Evilside' - don't know why. It's set in a remote rural fishing village in the Gulf of Bothnia, where a group of teenagers act out a live role playing game, and then one of them gets murdered. These young actors are at the centre of the action, and it's one of them who's artistic and different from the others who becomes a protagonist in finding out whodunit. It's not like the Famous Five kids' story, but an interesting portrayal of bored adolescence in a rural community in which desperate poor fishermen are driven to dumping barrels of toxic waste in an effort to survive.
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