Saturday Notes

I've seen two people I 'sort of' know on TV recently. One was on the special Festive editions of University Challenge. Diamaid (pronounced Dermot) McCullough was the son of the Vicar in Wetherden when I was at primary school there although he went to a private prep school. He went onto Stowmarket Grammar School but was three years older  than me. He's now an Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church of England and has written several books.

The other person I saw that I recognised was on the Digging For Britain programme this week where they were at the archaeology site at Leiston where the company that Son works for as an archaeologist and YD works as a site administrator, are working, in preparation for Sizewell C  power station. It wasn't either of them on the programme but the guy who'd been the lucky person to find a hoard of coins is the husband of one of ED's high school friends. 

Considering the number of people who take part in TV programmes and the number of people we know or meet in a lifetime seems it's rare to actually see anyone we know on TV - the only other I can remember was about 15 years ago when someone I knew in the 70s was on Bargain Hunt. Or it might just be me I guess, maybe everyone else sees people they know all the time!

As well as Digging for Britain on TV this week. Both Silent Witness and The Good Ship Murder were back for new series and something new, another police thing, called Patience which is about an Autistic woman helping the police. It was a bit odd and contrived I thought. When I googled it to see how many episodes there were (6) I found it had been completely slated by some of the critics for the depiction of someone with Autism.

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I was on a really good run with Wordle, with 60+ correct in a row and then this Wednesday for some unknown reason I completely forgot to do it - Very Annoyed with myself! So now there's a long way to go to overtake my best run of 86 - Grrrrr! I do the mini crossword too and attempt the connections - but usually fail.

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Hello to penfriend Peggy! 👋 in Canada.  Had a lovely Christmas card from her this week,

 they've had postal strikes there so it took a while to get here. We used to write often but now I'm a bad penfriend who writes rarely but Peggy reads the blog. I used to have several penfriends but with the cost of postage and blogging being so easy I'm now the lazy and hopeless penfriend!

The card has a painting by Thomas Kinkade whose pictures can also be found on very difficult jigsaw puzzles - I'm glad my House of Puzzles January jigsaw was easier and is now finished so will be a Spot the Difference post next week.

Peggy said in her card that they didn't have forest fires close to where she is during the summer last year, thankfully, sometimes they get frighteningly close. The devastation of the Los Angeles fires in the US have been on TV news here, so many people have lost everything, it's heart-breaking to see and still goes on, even houses right down on the beaches have gone. Several people have died, looting has started and someone was  illegally flying a drone that hit one of the planes spraying fire retardant - what a crazy world.

Hope you have a good weekend, keep warm, especially if you are 'up north' in the snowy bits of the UK, down here in Suffolk it's just been frosty but with sunshine so hasn't felt too bad.

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Sue