Started with heating problem, then the TV stopped being able to access some connection for IPlayer and Netflix, etc. Car has some kind of knock at the back and outside lights trip on side of the house, then one of the windows in the kitchen has water in the middile of the double glazing.
So to counter all that I have been finalising plans for Canada, despite the tariffs that Trump is going to put on imports therefrom with retaliatory ones from Trudeau and similarly Mexico then both Presidents chat to Trump and make a deal — what a farce as they all roll over to this man. So Canada here I come.
Canada
After some emails back and forth from Jim will go with them up to their cottage in Tofino up the West coast for a few days so no trip to Seattle now as originally thought — even got my ESTA.
Patti's friends in Halifax and other places coming up trumps too with lots of ideas.
Then Romania with Sheila
No sooner had we booked our flights than BA cancelled them so now having an extra day in Bucharest.
Then having to plan for the Bridge Drive, the Bridge Summer party and then off to Devon concentrating on Cezanne in watercolour followed later in France with Patrick in Sancerre. Also possibility of Milan with Chris to go to La Scala so I can add that symphony Hall to my list along with Berlin and Hamburg, Toronto and Covent Garden — is that even a Symphony Hall? Im not sure.
Here is my birdbath I got for Xmas.
Helen gave me time with Miles Wigfield, a retired doctor who is probably best known as a printer calling himself the Reading Room Press. We are hoping to print a couple of poems, so yesterday I did my first bit of typesetting in his choc-a-block print workshop — not sure of the right terminology here. It is time consuming but I can see how you could get quite obsessive about it — really like any other creative hobby.
I have sold two of my charcoal pictures with the money to go to the school big build which is now at over £252.000.