Another day of quiet retirement

A great night's sleep. Tidied the kitchen, made breakfast, then prepared for a recording with Robin, discussing poetry about vampires, John Keats, Hope Mirrlees, and Father's Day. All went well and we had some fun. The publisher's publicist wrote to me about the Vampire book, wondering if we could delay covering it till a bit later in the year, but it was already done by then. 

I am going to be a last minute replacement reader, in a poetry reading in Arundel with Robin next Monday, which is Beth's due date.

Then I sloped off to Pomegranate to meet Lorraine and Pat and Maureen for an early lunch. Maureen ended up giving me half hers, luckily she had the same,  sourdough bread with smashed avocado with smoked salmon sprinkled with seeds and chilli flakes. Actually a prefect little lunch. Maureen always takes her hearing aid out in the cafe, so we communicate with her by pulling faces and bellowing.

Then back home to work on Gordon Road -- a really good session and made a few distinct improvements. Felt good about it again, after feeling rather down in the dumps about it yesterday, and the possibility of further improving it possible. Spoke to Mum.

Then put a chicken on and boiled up potatoes. As I was pottering about listening to some past episodes of the excellent The Rest is History podcast about Chamberlain's policy of appeasement. Lorraine got back from seeing Dawn, and Beth and James came around. Lorraine threw together an excellent salad to have. Beth looking healthy, and definitely looking full term too. An early dinner, and sat about chatting before they zoomed off as Beth's bedtime is 8:30.  Her due date is 9th of June, so it literally could be any day now.