Tangles

Lorraine off to Rhymetime this morning. I got on with trying to finalise the full poetry MS, and did a little more of the edit.

Dived at by the bastard gull on the roof, going straight for my head and veering off a couple of yards away. It's hard not to take it personally, as it ignores Lorraine.

To Joy and Jim for a cup of afternoon tea. Joy had a sort of cherry sponge cake of which I ate two slices like a starving dog. Lovely couple and a cheery chat. Lorraine talking lots about pottery, and they have lots of pottery in their house too. Joy is going to have a second hip replacement soon, so we are going to keep Jim topped up with milk and cakes while she is recovering nearby. 

Home and I called Mum. She had a horrible day of getting herself in a tangle talking to the US Social Security people, and having to hold on for hours and not have her call returned and so on. She said she also made a payment, which I didn't understand and she couldn't explain. Eventually she found the site she had been too, which was the real site and she had been talking on a chatbox on that. It should be okay, but she is going to check no funny stuff has been happening with her bank tomorrow and call me. 

Lorraine cooked a rather yummy stir fry, using our new air fryer to cook some trout fillets. Nice.

Flowers in the wild strip of our back garden snapped this morning, while dodging the gull.