Quickly as I am off to get good bread...
It was raining when I woke but my plan was to do the weekly grocery shop early, so we leapt into action and were at the supermarket for 09:00 and were feeling a bit smug until we met friends already finished and on their way home. The trip turned out slightly more exciting than expected, as my downstairs neighbour requested I might pick up a whole salmon for her if there was one. I had never wrestled a whole salmon before.....ummm, not in a hurry to do it again, despite my neighbour is correct that it's a vastly less expensive way to buy salmon, considering she got 19 fillets out of it.On our return from the supermarket we got caught at some traffic lights, with no-one else in sight, but as we sat there a goldfinch alighted about a metre from the car window, and just sat there looking at me. Such a pretty little bird, but what a pity I didn't have my camera with me.
By 10:30 when the shopping was all packed away, and I had bleached the kitchen work surfaces, we were wondering how to spend the rest of the day.I had a mug of coffee while searching for a few critical genealogy dates, and then phoned a friend, whom we learned had suffered a stroke recently. She says she is physically well, but finding her brain a little muddled and losing words. Mind you, I am the same and I don't have reasons. We made her promise to give us a call if she wanted any help, as her family who have been staying with her will be going back this weekend.After lunch we drove over to Torquay, walked along beside the water culvert, past the Spanish Barn, through the Abbey gardens, which were looking very lovely, all the beds having been sown with wild flower seed in an informal way this year, and then along the waterfront. Torquay is gearing up for some summer trade now and the Carousel has returned, along with a Big Wheel which was under construction.
It turned into a sunny evening which made our evening walk quite pleasant, and initially we were surprised how quiet it was, but then suddenly there were lots of people everywhere, and we had to dodge dogs and runners and bikes and scooters. We have two cruise ships at anchor in the Bay again, and everything seemed calm and pleasing until we passed an ambulance parked on the promenade, and realised the crew were giving treatment to someone along the path, but the patient was sitting up, so hopefully nothing too disastrous had happened.
Watched "Talking Heads" on TV.
