Monday 18 January:

It looks as if we’re due to have a pretty awful, wet week weather-wise, but the forecast for the very start of the day was reasonable and so I decided that my dawn walk should be along the Avon and up through Leigh Woods. In the event, it proved to be really rather lovely – just a few runners along the Avon and absolutely no one in Leigh Woods (until I was making my exit and then came across a woman runner and three cyclists - a father of two young children). Silent and utterly magical. It had been pretty grey and cloudy when I set out but, happily, as I made my way home along the Avon, the sun came out and it turned into a beautiful morning (although it started raining as I entered Mount Pleasant).
Moira managed to ‘book’ a brief time to speak to Alice by phone just after lunch. She’s REALLY been struggling (although, thankfully, now ‘over’ her Covid symptoms). She’s been shutting herself away in her bedroom (although did manage a shower this morning) and, sadly, having lots of ‘suicidal thoughts’ – which is obviously very worrying for her AND for the rest of us. We feel somewhat helpless.
I finished my ‘Snow Country’ book after lunch. It’s only a short novel (120 pages), but I think I’ll need to read it again before our bookgroup meets to discuss it! In the meantime, I’m trying to work out what I thought of it!
Evening telly: usual ‘Only Connect’ and ‘University Challenge’.
Image: Avon reflections (just one of several photographs I took on my walk).