09:00 We’ve got another delivery coming this afternoon, from
CookShop: some ready meals for when we’re tired, and 2 luxury ready meals: one
for tomorrow, which is our 48th wedding anniversary (lamb moussaka),
and another (Green Thai Vegetable Curry) for today, the eve of our anniversary
– we needed to order today’s meal to get our order total up to the minimum
value for delivery, but we haven’t got enough room in our freezer to store it,
so we need to eat it today – what madness!!!!
Thai vegetable green curry
We’ll be stuck in the house tomorrow, on our anniversary, just the
two of us, but that’s okay – we’re used to that! But we can’t really even go
for a drive and a stroll, because we’re going to be getting Storm Francis
tomorrow in this area, with 40 mph winds as well as heavy rain. So we’re
putting our anniversary outing off until Wednesday. What a crazy world we live
in !!!!!
Storm Francis
Tomorrow is our 48th wedding anniversary, although it
is actually 50 years this year since we hooked up and became “an item” – what a
long time that is. Incredible!
Flashback to 1970: Buxton, Derbyshire, soon after Lois and I, the geeky student,
had hooked
up for the first time. Happy days!!!!
10:30 I get on the computer and browse the Danish news media, a
habit I got into when our daughter Alison, together with Ed and their 3
children, spent 6 years in Copenhagen (2012-2018).
I turn to Morten Ingemann’s cartoon, and I get a bit of a
shock, to put it mildly! Ingemann is my favourite Danish cartoonist, no doubt
about that. He really understands the dynamics of families and the pride parents
have in their children.
Morten Ingemann, my favourite Danish
cartoonist
In today’s cartoon we saw a father talking to his teenage daughter
when she comes home from high school. He asks her, “How did it go in school
today, my girl?”. The daughter replies that they had sex education. The father
asks her if it was interesting. “Naaah, it was really boring!”, says the
daughter. And there’s no mistaking the tears of emotion in the father’s eyes,
as he tells his daughter with unmistakable pride, “My dear, you’re getting
more and more like your mother every day!”.
A heart-warming story, no doubt about that!
14:00 I go to bed and take a gigantic afternoon nap. Meanwhile
Lois sits down in the dining-room. She designs
and makes her anniversary card to me.
16:00 We sit down on the sofa. We have a cup of tea and a slice of
bread and butter with Lois’s home-made gooseberry jam.
After that we go out in
the back garden and pick all the larger apples off our tree of “eaters”. We don’t
want Storm Francis to hurl them around the garden tomorrow and have a good game
with them at our expense, thank you very much!
we pick the larger apples off our "eaters" tree,
in advance of Storm Francis tomorrow - yikes!!!!
17:00 We come back in the house. I sit down at the computer and
design my anniversary card to Lois, and then we have our Thai Vegetable Curry for two at
6:15 pm.
22:00 Good enough! We go to bed – zzzzzzzzzzz!!!!
19:30 Lois goes into the dining-room to take part in her sect’s
weekly Bible Seminar. She comes out at 8.30 pm and we settle down on the sofa
to watch the latest edition of the student quiz programme, University
Challenge. Tonight’s contest is between Bristol University and Corpus Christi
College, Oxford.
We find that we can answer
about 1 question in every 5, and we also answer 6 questions that the students
get wrong or are stumped over, so not too bad an evening for us.
1.
Name the town at the red dot:
Students: Stevenage
Colin and Lois: Luton
2.
Fictional wolves: Maugrim the Wolf acts as
chief of the secret police for one of the title characters of which children’s
novel?
Students: The Rats of Nimh
Colin and Lois: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
3.
Which Roman emperor gave his name to a
frontier barrier between the Clyde and the Forth?
Students: Hadrian
Colin and Lois: Antoninus
4.
In which Tennyson poem do these lines occur:
“She knows not what the curse may be,
And so she weaveth steadily
And little other care hath she”.
Students: Ariadne
Colin and Lois: The Lady of Shalott
5.
Name the artist who painted this:
Students: Millais, Burne-Jones
Coin and Lois: Rossetti
6.
And this:
Students: Rembrandt
Colin and Lois: Frans Hals
At the gong it’s Bristol 135, Corpus Christi 175, Colin and Lois
about 60 maybe!
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