How good to wake up in bright sunshine and a temperature of 18C and rising to 25C in the afternoon. It's 30C further to the south east and promises to continue being summery until we reach Midsummer Day next week. BBC news however couldn't help but mention this little seasonal heat wave without also mentioning the approaching threat of 40-45C summers within a few years to cheer us down again. It's a serious prospect for agriculture and water management, but how far is government strategy taking this into account and changing planning priorities? I wonder.
In the course of posting today's YouTube link to Morning Prayer on the Parish WhatsApp prayer thread, I accidentally overwrote the text of the Reflection which accompanies it in the course of cutting and pasting it. As it's stored on Google Docs, this error meant losing the text and being unable to post it. As I was in the bedroom at the time, and the house wi-fi was switched off, I guessed that an error made on my phone's 4G would take a few minutes to update the internet server, so I ran downstairs, started the Chromebook found the missing text in Google Docs where I left it yesterday and copied it before the router finished booting up and updating from the internet. Although my error appeared on updating, I had saved the text to paste back into Docs and WhatsApp with a few seconds to spare. It made me realise that on a phone version of Docs there's no obvious undo/redo button, as there is on a laptop keyboard. Google claims one is buried in the Edit menu, but I couldn't find it on my phone. Lesson learned.
Israel and Iran are still exchanging missiles, and Trump is keeping everyone guess about whether or not he will involve US military actively in support of Israel's war of eliminating Iran's nuclear scientific research enterprise, convinced that manufacture of nuclear weapons under the guise of a civil nuclear development programme is imminent. With all parties lying about what they know and don't know for certain, hiding their real motives and intentions, it's impossible to understand what may really be going on. Media interventions from Trump only add to the confusion.
There were just six of us at the St Catherine's Eucharist this morning. After coffee I collected this week's veggie bag from Chapter, and returned home to cook a pasta dish with canelli beans and fresh organic carrots for an early lunch. I needed to be back at St Catherine's by half past one for Mike Kelly's funeral. I took with me the weighing scale decorated in 'barge-ware' style for the bric-a-brac stall instead of taking it to the tip for recycling, since it wasn't fit for kitchen use, but maybe a saleable object d'art at Saturday's summer church fayre. It seemed even heavier to me than when we acquired it last autumn in Tenby.
There were about two hundred people at the funeral, colleagues, family and friends, to say goodbye to a well loved man whose life was devoted to theatre in Wales as an actor, director and sympathetic critic. His son and a couple of friends gave warm tributes, and his presence in St Catherine's congregation as a lesson reader of distinction, thanks to his background, was acknowledged. I was glad to be in the congregation with nothing to do except pray for the man I knew. I slipped away immediately after the service as I had things to do. First I recorded and edited the audio for next week's Morning Prayer, then I posted summer Fayre leaflets through the letter boxes of the remaining ninety houses not done yesterday.
Marc shared with me photos he took at Sunday's icon blessing. All of them were downsized for sending. I must ask if he'll send me the originals.
After supper, a new series of 'Grace' to watch on ITVX. A story about an Albanian organised crime gang's activity on England's south coast, including modern slavery, extortion, kidnapping and a money laundering investment entrepreneur whose business is on the brink of failure. Quite a lot to squeeze into ninety minutes of fast paced action. Well put together, but predictable, nothing new, no interesting insights.
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