I’d originally hoped to go and watch some cricket in Bristol (Glocs v Somerset), but the forecast was for light rain for much of the day… so I didn’t. In the event, Somerset batted first and reached 45-1 during the course of a very disrupted day's play - so I was justified in not going).
Usual indoor morning coffee with Moira… talked about her hospital appointment at Southmead tomorrow (she’s obviously quite anxious about it) and also about the possibility of us training down down to Bradford-on-Avon for a walk through the town/along the canal?
I emailed Jonny to see if he would be able to make next Wednesday’s BP via zoom (answer: he’s on a course, but perhaps could do the evening?).
Sketched indoors before lunch (dining chairs… not exactly exciting!).
Ian sent me a link to a documentary he thought I might like (Harry Birrell presents films of Love and War)… and how right he was. This is from the iPlayer’s accompanying blurb: “In 1928 and at the age of eleven, Harry Birrell was given his first cine camera. ‘The greatest toy a child could ever receive,’ he would say. His obsession with making movies would span the rest of his life, despite the onset of blindness. In love, war and other adventures, Harry recorded everything with a wonderfully cinematic eye on thousands of feet of high-quality 16mm film. From commanding a battalion of Gurkhas in the Indian army at the start of WWII to dangerous sorties deep behind enemy lines in Burma at its end, and from the ballroom dances of his youth in the 30s to teaching his children how to dance the twist in the 60s, Harry’s entertaining and errant adventures are filmed with the intimacy of home movies but on the scale of Lawrence of Arabia.Today, his granddaughter Carina uncovers a lifetime of memories all spliced together in over 400 films, personal diaries (narrated by Richard Madden) and countless photographs that have previously lain unseen”. Excellent.
In the evening, we had a zoom call with Maggs+Jeremy – which was very nice… good to catch up (frustrating for Moira that she wasn’t able to hear initially and had to use a separate device in the living room!).
Evening telly: ‘Canal Diairies’ on catch-up.
Image: Dining Chairs.
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