Friday 29 May:

A dawn walk around the harbour on yet another beautiful morning…

The weather has been ridiculously good – virtually every day since ‘lockdown’ – and I feel sure it’s helped the mental health of an awful lot of people (lockdown and miserable weather might have been unbearable for many).

Moira and I enjoyed morning coffee in the garden ‘as usual’… mornings work well from a sunny aspect perspective in our small garden.

I spent most of the morning writing some church Re-Ordering notes for, ultimately, Lee to pass on to the Archdeacon to seek his advice regarding our consultants Heritage+Community.

Read more of my ‘Outrun’ book – really impressed with the eloquence of the writing… and the author’s ability to record her, often scary, experiences so wonderfully well.  

Chatted to Iris later… and she’s been doing a lot of (pretty wonderful) painting recently… and also meeting some of her friends (from suitable distance) at the park.

Moira had her bookgroup ‘meeting’ in the evening so I disappeared to bed fairly early (again) to read (again!).

Image: I stopped and watched this cormorant diving+surfacing a number of times next to the marina first thing this morning… and this is what it caught (an eel?). Ironically, just a matter of 20metres away, there were two fishermen – both hunkering down in sleeping bags (and both asleep?) and with numerous rods ‘in action’ over the water… completely unaware of their rival fish hunter!