Rain in the night and a cloudy windy start to the day. I got to bed late and slept late to make up the deficit. Day after day, the news from Gaza is unremittingly worse. People queuing for food at distribution points organised by a US-Israeli foundation rather than the established UN agencies, getting fired upon with a couple of dozen people killed. The Israelis say they fire warning shots over the heads of people deviating from the prescribed route, and blame Hamas fighters for the killings. Who knows what the truth is when no independent crime scene investigators are allowed in?
After breakfast Clare went to her study group in Penarth, and I went to Beanfreaks to stock up on an assortment of items. The wind was pushing apart the cloud cover when I got back and the sun shone into the dining room in brief bursts, as I settled down to make the video slideshow for next week's Morning Prayer, sitting at the table to work. Forgetting what time it was, I didn't start making lunch until just before Clare returned at a quarter to one. Fortunately, quick and easy fish and frozen chips went in the oven, and were ready to eat by twenty past.
I finished the video and uploaded it after we'd eaten. Then I went for a walk around Thompson's Park. It was just at a time when parents with infants collected from the nursery nearby gather socially by the cafe, recently closed. A class from one of the local primary schools was enjoying a session of physical exercise on the recently mown upper grass area, warming up by running about, then playing a game of rounders. Given the fresh breeze blowing, they'll have had plenty of fresh air as well. Several green parakeets were calling raucously from the surrounding trees. I ran the Merlin app to check on what else might be up there, as there were other strange sounds as well. To my surprise no bird was identified. Seeing me holding my phone, a lady passing by said "Parakeets, but you won't find it on Merlin." I agreed. Merlin automatically identifies the phone's location. Although Parakeets have been around Cardiff in small numbers for several years, they are not yet registered hereabouts on the birding map database.
I came home for a break from the wind and to rest after an hour. If I walk seven or eight kilometres in one go, my feet are quite painful at the end, although I'm not really tired. If I spread out my daily distance with a couple of rests, it's not as painful. I went out again and walked for another three quarters of an hour before supper. Result? No foot pain. My feet seem to recover quickly, for now at least.
Clare's arthritic hip pain is getting worse, and she's thinking about paying for the operation. First, a request for an up to date x-ray, to be able to compare how much deterioration there's been in the past six months. That may influence the time she may have to spend in the NHS surgery queue. We'll see.
After supper I watched the first episode of a new German crimmie, which seems to be about a conspiracy by a neo-nazi group to subvert a police recruit. Then rather than watch more I read more of 'Sangre Nueva' for the rest of the evening.
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