So many things to write about, but I’ve done most of them to death.

Julia is having a good time and should be back in UK tomorrow. This is good as it will be nice to see her again, but it is bad as it involves a day of housework tomorrow. I’ve mostly caught up but I really ought to make it look better than it was before she went. At the moment it just looks as if it’s been tidied in a hurry and everything has been moved round.

Today’s soup was good and has all gone now. I involved more onion than usual and about a foot of celery.

Wingfield Manor – tower

I bought a helping hand from Amazon. It’s getting harder to pick stuff up and I should have got one months ago, maybe years.

Today I did some complicated things, and neglected to do some of the simpler things. I really need to make myself a list as there are things I need to do now so that they are definitely done by the autumn.

Last night I watched a programme about Philip Larkin and John Betjeman. Then I watched John Betjeman on Metroland. There’s something quite painful about Metroland. It’s partly a sense of loss, partly a realisation that even if I had tried to gain admission to it, I would not have been accepted. It is the same feeling I got from watching the earlier programme. I wouldn’t have fitted in with Larkin and Betjeman – I lack the upper class accent and the Oxford education.

A Jackdaw

Pictures are from various May outings over the years,