Monday, November 17, 2008
Jigsaws, Cameras and Chichester.
It was a lovely crisp morning - with just a hint of pink in the sky to foretell the miserable end to the day.
Ashley went to Mass at one of the small Catholic churches in the town to find that the Bishop of Arundel was there to lead the service.
Ashley came home to join us for breakfast and then went to Broadfield for further devotions.
Bill, meanwhile, pulled lots of stuff from the garage to sort things out. Two shelves were to come out so that I can use them in the shop and in place of them, the unit Bill had built many years ago was slotted in.
At one point all the jigsaws that I have which are waiting to be checked were piled and strewn across garden.
I decided that there really were too many and have discarded anything less than interesting or too tatty or which actually said that pieces were missing on the box.
Later Bill took rejected puzzles and other bits and pieces to the dump.
After lunch we went to Reigate to see a lady who we had met in the shop last Thursday. She is dealin with items that had belonged to her now deceased husband and that included cameras - scores of them.
He had been a member of the Horley Camera Club.
None were particularly interesting, but Bill has brought home a box with about 40 cameras in.
Others we persuaded her would be better being offered to a charity shop.
Ashley had come with us and he had set off to look round the charity shops and maybe to enjoy a cup of tea in a cafe. He gave up on that idea because he realised that his old mobile phone was receiving no signals and I wouldn't be able to contact him when we had finished with the camera lady. So poor man, he waited outside Morrisons supermarket watching the weather close in until it became horrendously gloomy and wet.
We had planned to go to Dorking to check measurements in the shop. But we all felt tired and just wanted to get home in the warm with a cup of tea.
And now for a few photographs from yesterday.
The sunbeams through the clouds at Bognor Beach were interesting.
We walked in the Bishop's Palace garden and enjoyed some fine trees. This one I spied from the City wall and was attracted to it and spent a little while under the autumn leaves feeling the tree trunk. I feel I can take some strength from a tree.
Another view in the Bishop's Palace Garden.
A view of the cathedral from the garden.
Ashley went to Mass at one of the small Catholic churches in the town to find that the Bishop of Arundel was there to lead the service.
Ashley came home to join us for breakfast and then went to Broadfield for further devotions.
Bill, meanwhile, pulled lots of stuff from the garage to sort things out. Two shelves were to come out so that I can use them in the shop and in place of them, the unit Bill had built many years ago was slotted in.
At one point all the jigsaws that I have which are waiting to be checked were piled and strewn across garden.
I decided that there really were too many and have discarded anything less than interesting or too tatty or which actually said that pieces were missing on the box.
Later Bill took rejected puzzles and other bits and pieces to the dump.
After lunch we went to Reigate to see a lady who we had met in the shop last Thursday. She is dealin with items that had belonged to her now deceased husband and that included cameras - scores of them.
He had been a member of the Horley Camera Club.
None were particularly interesting, but Bill has brought home a box with about 40 cameras in.
Others we persuaded her would be better being offered to a charity shop.
Ashley had come with us and he had set off to look round the charity shops and maybe to enjoy a cup of tea in a cafe. He gave up on that idea because he realised that his old mobile phone was receiving no signals and I wouldn't be able to contact him when we had finished with the camera lady. So poor man, he waited outside Morrisons supermarket watching the weather close in until it became horrendously gloomy and wet.
We had planned to go to Dorking to check measurements in the shop. But we all felt tired and just wanted to get home in the warm with a cup of tea.
And now for a few photographs from yesterday.
The sunbeams through the clouds at Bognor Beach were interesting.
The autumn leaves and moss on the old roof tiles could be anywhere. But they were in Chichester.
Chichester Cathedral is the Anglican centre of our area.
Although "centre" is hardly the word, for Chichester lies at the very furthest point from Crawley but still is in the same county.
In my youth the family tended to go to the other end of the county and I didn't know Chichester at all.
In recent years we have been more often.
We walked in the Bishop's Palace garden and enjoyed some fine trees. This one I spied from the City wall and was attracted to it and spent a little while under the autumn leaves feeling the tree trunk. I feel I can take some strength from a tree.
Another view in the Bishop's Palace Garden.
A view of the cathedral from the garden.
