All change

Friday 7th May, 2021

The day of the elections. Hartlepool gone Conservative which depressed me. Otherwise I have not seen results but fear Conservatives gaining. I dread SNP victory in Scotland but must accept the right of people to choose.

My own day much easier. I took my car in to the local, totally reliable garage for a check up and general service. I am hoping to drive south to Gloucestershire in a week or so and the car is old, I am anxious and I have to hope.

I was picked up from the garage at 9am and taken to the house of a friend. A breakfast of sausages and scrambled eggs and coffee. Talk, quiet and reading in front of a fire. Then a non alcoholic wine out in the sunshine for an hour. Back for a lunch of prosciutto and melon, asparagus and fresh courgettes with cheese, salad and then a chocolate mousse. A siesta and then taken back to pick up the car...only £65 which was far less than I feared. Back home to be greeted with silence. I am moving south, my landlady does not know the details but a letter from the solicitor awaited me with 'Purchase of...' in bold letters on the front.

I have to pluck up courage to talk of it but fear the tensions.

Four other letters and a welcome email or two about my travelling and carpets and furniture. One wants life to be easy but so many are so easily upset as am I. What is that makes us so sensitive? Self interest? Another puzzle and fact.

I did read two inspiring articles by the late Cardinal Konig on prayer and on ecumenism and how the faith is to be transmitted. As ever it has to do with example, he believed. How to live a truly Christian life? Ever the puzzle.