Shopping spree
Lorraine and up and at 'em unusually early for a Saturday morning. We drove Betty to the Goldmans stage school where she teaches on Saturday. Lorraine and I off to buy things for me. These included lightweight mosquito and UV resistant shirts and trousers for The Great Chad Adventure. Fairly useless in store help, but Lorraine had researched it on the internet the day before thankfully. I also bought myself a rather lovely and expensive grey jacket, that fits beautifully after Lorraine led me to a shop. A fashion classic. Sober on the outside, and thanks to floral purple lining, jazzular on the inside. Just like moi. Had to steel myself to spend the money, but my wardrobe is beginning to look a tad shabby. Bumped into Claire Turner and her sister who lives in New York and had a chat with them in the street too. Claire is such a lovely person.
Brighton gorgeous and sunny today. South African rugby fans here and there. I learned later they were playing Japan at the Amex Stadium (home of Brighton's football team) and Japan, in the most astonishing result, beat the Springboks, in a result that is reverberating round the rugby world. Seems like the SA supporters were very sporting about it too, which was nice to hear.
Home, via Sainsbury's. Carolyn came to visit this afternoon, and we sat outside drinking tea and eating scones in the garden. She was Lorraine's boss for a while and is a very interesting woman, who paints and does embroidery. She is off to Costa Rica, and other central american countries and wanted to set up a blog, which I showed her the basics of. Lorraine cooked a Japanese chicken and prawn dish, warming seaweed and making dashi stock with bonito flakes as I did so. Carolyn very well travelled and has been to Japan too. Betty back to have some of this, before zooming off with Laura.
After Carolyn left, Lorraine and I watched another Swedish cop show called Beck, which we quite like. Also watched in the week the final episode of French scandi-style cop show called Witnesses, which was nicely noirish with corpses being dug up and so on, and a bit more shrugging. Lorraine loves all this stuff, but doesn't like horror movies at all.
Brighton gorgeous and sunny today. South African rugby fans here and there. I learned later they were playing Japan at the Amex Stadium (home of Brighton's football team) and Japan, in the most astonishing result, beat the Springboks, in a result that is reverberating round the rugby world. Seems like the SA supporters were very sporting about it too, which was nice to hear.
Home, via Sainsbury's. Carolyn came to visit this afternoon, and we sat outside drinking tea and eating scones in the garden. She was Lorraine's boss for a while and is a very interesting woman, who paints and does embroidery. She is off to Costa Rica, and other central american countries and wanted to set up a blog, which I showed her the basics of. Lorraine cooked a Japanese chicken and prawn dish, warming seaweed and making dashi stock with bonito flakes as I did so. Carolyn very well travelled and has been to Japan too. Betty back to have some of this, before zooming off with Laura.
After Carolyn left, Lorraine and I watched another Swedish cop show called Beck, which we quite like. Also watched in the week the final episode of French scandi-style cop show called Witnesses, which was nicely noirish with corpses being dug up and so on, and a bit more shrugging. Lorraine loves all this stuff, but doesn't like horror movies at all.
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