Thursday, April 26, 2012
Lunch and a chilly evening.
We enjoyed lunch with French Julie today.
Well, actually enjoyed is not the best word to describe how Bill and I felt....Julie is full of praise for the local fish and chip shop.
We have no praise for it.
The chips were rather like they were last night's left over chips and had been re-heated. Tough as old boots.
Shame.
But Julie had opened a bottle of red wine in readiness for our meal - so I soon felt mellow.
Julie had been in hospital for a couple of weeks. She was discharged on Monday.
Poor Julie expected to feel back to normal - and that hasn't happened. Her mobility is still poor...."can't put one foot in front of the other", she said. She gets tired very easily. Conversation, however, is lively. At one point we were sharing views on philosophy of education!
It is a shame that she feels unable to find much positive to do. But I do understand how that can be after a spell in hospital and when your confidence has been knocked down to allow some degree of depression to creep in.
I would love to think that when we see her next week she might be able to accept an offer to be taken out. We'll see.
We hurried home to get ourselves ready for a stimulating, but cold evening.
It was the Haywards Heath Athletics Club Open Meeting, which they hold at this time each year.
I can tell you, it was not so very warm on the timekeeping steps this evening. We had clear skies (briefly) and the temperature dropped sharply. And it was pretty windy.
We didn't have any electric timekeeping at this meeting - what we, the timekeepers, got on our watches was the only time. It is so good that we are such good timekeepers that the athletes can trust that our times are only ever a few hundredths of a second away from correct. Sometimes we are spot on....a bingo!
It is not often these days that a mile is included in a programme - but Haywards Heath have always had a mile race and there are awards for winners of each age group.
Mostly the races were shorter sprints.
We finished a bit later than expected - but the officials judging the long jump must have finished very much later than expected; they were still at it when we left.
I have one more set of pictures connected with Newcastle to share. These will appear tomorrow - pictures taken in the Newcastle home.
