Went for my usual harbourside dawn walk (very murky/drizzly)… and very few people about.
Morning coffee with Moira – trying to plan various Christmas-related things (need to confirm when we’re ‘meeting up’ with R+S and H+F over the holiday period; need to confirm when we’re zooming with A+D; when we’ll eat on Christmas Day; need to plan our ‘day’ and plug in particular things etc).
We usually arrange to meet up with Iris+Rosa during school holidays for chips at the Watershed. In the light of the Covid restrictions, we decided to make some chips at home; keep them warm in foil-pouches; then meet up (with I+R+Ruth) on Gaol Ferry Steps; and then consume them! It proved to be good fun… basic, but fun – despite the rain (and so good to see them again after what seems like ages).
Finished my rather ordinary sketch of Broad Street Oxford during the course of the afternoon – and also found time to read more of my Sophie Ward book.
Frustrated that rain/overcast sky meant that the Saturn/Jupiter 'Great Conjunction' (the first since 1603) wasn't visible tonight. Fortunately, I'd been watching their juxtaposition over recent days.
Had an early evening zoom ‘meeting’ with Alan and Barry later… very good to catch up and reminisce about our Christmases from days gone by. Think we’ll re-connect again via zoom early in the New Year.
Image: Rosa+Iris+Ruth+Moira chip-eating on Gaol Ferry Steps.
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