Woke at around 0800. Aki had had a fitful night's sleep, but got up and made tea. Made a fruit salad for breakfast. Martin Atkinson alerted us to the fact that Margaret, next door, appeared in a BBC documentary about saving old church pipe organs...so we watched the programme on the iPlayer. Very moving. The programme follows one bloke who travels the country seeking out endangered pipe organs, and then endeavouring to rescue and refurbish them. He took apart a huge organ in a chapel in County Durham, and transported it down to Clapton where he re-built it in a church used as a music school...extraordinary fellow! Margaret turned up briefly in a scene in a digital organ showroom, but didn't speak, and didn't play. FaceTimed dad, it being Father's Day...he was busy cleaning the oven, mum having burnt the breakfast croissants. Kath was there...she has injured her back and has an x-ray lined up on her coccyx. Jim was there too, Emma having gone to Bristol to visit her daughter. Jim says the surgery on her spinal column has allowed her remarkable use of her damaged left hand. Pizza for lunch. Pottered about a bit during the afternoon, not doing very much. Brett popped round with some homemade cake, having heard that we had had to cancel our getaway to Wales. Cooked a mushroom and anchovy pasta sauce for dinner. Watched a bit of telly before shower and bed...
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