Well, the week’s almost over. It’s been a bit annoying as my foot is still weeping. I’m off to Kings on Wednesday for another look at it. I really need to get them focused on getting it to heal up. I’m tired of changing dressings, having wet socks from the fluid that’s leaking out of it, and so on and so forth.
Monday I did basically nothing…always delightful these days.
Tuesday I had lunch with Brian, one of the organisers of the Singaporean lesbian and gay film showing last Friday. He works around Goodge Street, and his building is really neat. It’s two buildings, one behind the other, and they have closed off the alley between the buildings and made it into a kind of atrium. As you might expect, it’s a design/architecture place. We discussed London, Singapore, and film over chicken Caesar salad in their canteen. It’s always lovely to make new friends and I hope that HWMBO and I will see more of Brian and his bf in the future. Brian is off to Singapore today.
Tuesday night was Diocesan Synod, the last meeting of this term. We discussed a report on childhood from the Children’s Society—it was presented by a Lord Someone-or-other who is or had been a professor. However, even with a microphone he was inaudible to most of us because he mumbles. Waste of our time. We also discussed the financial situation of the diocese. It looks like layoffs are imminent (of lay staff) and parishes will be consolidated as they become vacant. I spoke on the fact that people here in England are very loath to talk about money or giving; that is one of the reasons why giving levels are so pathetic in the Church of England. Lots of people think that since the Church is established, the government funds it. Of course, it doesn’t. The bishop was kind of dismissive of my plea to study how other provinces (especially the US) do stewardship. Typical Brit.
Wednesday we had the Diocesan Audit Committee meeting. Lots of discussion about our investments and investment policy. You might think “ho hum” but the only reason we can survive is that the investments bring in much-needed income—not as much of the much-needed income as before, but some.
Thursdy and Friday were mostly free. I decided that I wanted to connect the old iMac upstairs to the router down here by means of my Ethernet Bridge. I will discuss that in a separate post.
Today was very restful. I made sausages and muchroom risotto which HWMBO really likes. Always nice to cook something that your husband loves, as June Cleaver might have said.