Blog 3 6-12 April 2015
Easter Monday was such a lovely day that we did a little bit of tidying up before heading over for lunch to the Chelsea Physic Garden. We sat with a married couple from NZ - both judges - and talked about everything except rugby. Later, we bumped into two of our dear friends from Wanstead - Katie & Marek.
There was a thankful lull in the campaigning. If my Twitter accountis a fair reflection of the marginal seats then Labour will win two thirds ofthem. Overnight Duke Devils beat Wisconsin in the College Basketball finals68-63 which pleased my son immensely……
I had a bad night shivering and coughing so I spent Tuesday talking to my doctor and taking things more slowly than usual. I slept most of the morning and afternoon and failed to recover in time for the opening of our new Royal Trinity Hospice shop inGloucester Road. In bed I listened to a pod cast of Sunday's Radio 4's Spycatcher story covering 1984-7. I was then a board director at William Heinemann the publisher's of the book.
On Wednesday and Thursday I worked away on my Ebola and separately, Concussion, projects. Ebola is dependent on a visit to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia to present to the Islamic Development Bank there and Concussion just needs me to find a sympathetic production company.
Friday saw me back to full strength and so I spent the morning at Trinity Hospice where I chatted with our Head of Fund Raising; their end of year figures saw them come in at £800k over budget!
We joined the Vincent and Atalanta sports clubs from Oxford University on a boat to watch the Boat Race which saw Oxford win the Women’s, the Reserve and the Boat Race. For the women it was the first time over the 4 mile course and the Oxford crew just steamed away and it was obvious after 400m that they would cruise to victory. The Isis boat was marginally behind after 2 minutes but came through strongly ditto the main Blues boat. Here, the Cambridge crew went out too fast and blew up after a mile.
We took most of Sunday to recover.