10:00 I drive Lois down to Barnard's Green so she can get her hair cut by manager Rachel at the Divine Hair Salon, and later I drive down again to pick her up afterwards.
Rachel, manager of the Divine Hair Salon
flashback to Friday: we book Lois's appointment
at the Divine Hair Salon
Needless to say, the salon is quick to stress that it doesn't guarantee that customers' hair will look "divine" after their session. "That's just the name of the salon", is what they tell people (joke copyright the late Viv Stanshall). Nevertheless I think you'll agree that Lois looks very good when she comes out, after her session with Rachel, and later I take this picture:
Lois this afternoon, after her session with Rachel
and her demon scissors earlier in the day
10:45 While Lois is having her hair cut, Stephen, our friendly handyman from Cheltenham, arrives to do some jobs for us, including putting up a mirrored wall cabinet in the bathroom, and also a picture rail in our bedroom, so we can hang all our mirrors and pictures up there when it's all done.
No bedroom is truly complete without a picture rail, that's what we say!
the picture rail, now up in our bedroom, just awaiting
the final touching up with the paint
11:00 Sarah, our younger daughter, who, since 2015, has been living in Perth, Australia, with husband Francis and their 9-year-old twins Lily and Jessica, has recently been offered her old accountancy job back at her former firm in Evesham, just a few miles away from us. This morning she asks me to collect various legal documents for her, and email them out to her, to facilitate the family's efforts to buy a house here.
It's all to do with anti-money-laundering regulations. What a nuisance these money-launderers are, second only to identity-thieves and all other scammers. They're just a waste of space, aren't they!
a typical money-launderer at work
What a crazy world we live in !!!!!
19:30 Lois disappears into Bedroom 3 to take part in her church's monthly Business Meeting on zoom. I pass the time by watching a couple of TV programmes.
Whenever Lois isn't with me on the couch, I find I'm finding it more and more difficult to choose programmes that I'm interested in, and she isn't. What is it the Spice Girls said? Oh yes....
Oh dear - we must be finally coalescing all our likes and dislikes after 50 years of marriage. What's wrong with us haha!!!
I decide to watch something on Talking Pictures TV, "Time to Remember: a Trip to Europe 1924", which is an old American programme from Pathé about a tourist visiting Europe in 1924, and what he discovers in the various countries he travels to.
To summarise briefly this American guy finds chaos and misery all over the Continent, street fighting in Greece and Germany, and that kind of thing, but when he comes to Britain he discovers that despite the widespread unemployment it's very much "business as usual", with King George and Queen Mary riding through the streets. or going to the races, and being greeted by cheering crowds.
The big event in Britain was the extraordinarily lavish British Empire Exhibition, and I suppose that in 1924 there would have been few signs as yet that the Empire was not going to last for ever.
There were also 2 general elections in the year, and there was much panic in some circles when Britain's first ever Labour Prime Minister, Ramsay Macdonald, took office after the first election: this ground-breaking event gave rise to much talk of the "red peril" and the fear that government policy would henceforth be decided in the Kremlin.
These fears turned out to be groundless, luckily. And later in the year there was a second general election, when the Conservatives under Stanley Baldwin were returned to office by a landslide.
But what a crazy country we live in!!!
21:15 Lois emerges from her Business Meeting, which turned out to have been quite a difficult one: not the usual stuff, but a meeting that focussed on personal problems affecting 2 or 3 individual members. Lois found it quite stressful, but at least she discovered that these personal problems were being handled sensitively by the local church organisation, so that's something.
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzz!!!!
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