Tuesday 21 April:

Another dawn harbourside walk (image: Redcliffe Back). Another beautiful sunny day. I’d earlier read my daily Bryson chapter from “The Body”.

Steve Eyre rang after breakfast and we had a lovely chat… I SO miss our regular get-togethers. They seem in pretty good form.

Warm enough for Moira and I to have coffee in the garden, which was good. Finalised my ‘family social history’ stuff and sent it off to Ruth, Hannah and Alice (and to Alan)… I’ve probably omitted lots of important events and/or got things terribly wrong, but it was good to put something on paper (as it were).

Liaised with Karen about arrangements for Saturday’s ‘virtual’ urban sketching meet-up.

Sketched in the garden in the afternoon. The Drawing Group theme was ‘Childhood’ – which posed a few problems trying to come up with something; ended up quickly sketching Moira’s and my ‘Teds’ (the stuffing in her ‘Teddy’ is in desperate need of repair!).

Also read a fair amount from my “Paul” book (which I’ve really taken ages to read) and now feel as if I’m on the home straight.

Eye drop prescription medication was delivered, which was good (and something of a relief).

Received a THIRD identical letter from the NHS warning me that I’m on the ‘severe’ list and should remain home at all times for the next 12 weeks etc… which means I’m supposed to re-emerge sometime in the middle of July! Around 6pm I also had a phone call from one of our doctors seeing how I was coping!

I ‘attended’ a Resonate meeting in the evening – the first ‘zoom’ version. The theme related to the cinema: “Films that have shaped my faith”. I’d originally been approached about being one of the ‘speakers’ (or facilitators or whatever), but subsequently felt that perhaps I wasn’t quite a suitable person to lead (I don’t think ANY film has actually shaped my faith!). In the event, the meeting didn’t really work for me (all of us were watching with mikes muted and being asked to make comments on ‘chat’ which appeared on the right hand side of the screen), but I think there were some 16 or 17 participating so I suppose ‘open mike’ would have been difficult.