Sunday 9 May:

We actually went to ‘real’ church at Saint Stephen’s today (the third time at church for me in 14 months and the fourth time for Moira). Lovely to see ‘everyone’ (albeit in a rather unreal way). Dru took the service - in his rather bumbling (and slightly annoying) way – and Lee gave the talk (he’s VERY good!).
Afterwards Moira and I had coffee with Phil (Trinity ordinand) and his wife Abbey (from my Storysmith bookgroup) at St Nick’s market – which was very lovely.
Lots of people in town enjoying the sunshine.
Frittered away much of the rest of the day reading the newspaper and trying to keep abreast of the emerging local election results. Once again, Southville returned two Green councilors (excellent news) but, rather brilliantly, Labour and GREENS now SHARE control of the City Council (24 seats each) – with the Tories (14 seats) pushed into third place and LibDems on 8! This represents a HUGE turnaround from the 2016 results: Labour 37; Tories 14; Greens 11; LibDems 8. Marvin Rees (Lab) was re-elected Mayor – which is fine by me as I think he’s been good at representing the city over the past 5 years.
Villa lost at home to ManU 1-3, but Somerset beat Hampshire easily.
Evening telly: usual boring ‘Countryfile’ and ‘Antiques’!
Went to bed early and read more of my Kate Atkinson book.
Image: It’s that wisteria time of year (from a house on Kingston Road)!