Fishing vessel

Bank holiday Monday and we went for a walk with the memory cafe group as the church hall was closed! There was a raw breeze and intermittent sunshine but we managed to walk down to Barbican and through to the mayflower quay. Whilst there I noticed the plaque which told of the Tolpuddle Martyrs who had been deported to Australia but received a pardon and returned to land at the mayflower steps!

We decided to cross the lock bridge but just then it close. I wandered across to see what was going through as one could normally see vessels waiting to go out to sea or vessels waiting to come in but there were no vessels in evidence then this fishing boat suddenly appeared and motored straight through! There were ten of us and we crossed the lock snd then split into different groups with no particular thought! We were ahead then waited for the others but eventually went back to find them! Three had stoped to watch a cruise ship arrive in the sound. As it was then nearly twelve we went back to have a drink in one of the cafes on the Barbican!

A we then split up and I went with a friend to lunch and then on to coffee in a very Middle Eastern coffee house and thenn escorted her home and went in to go to the loo! Her husband died relatively recently and she has Alzheimer’s and gets cross with forgetting names and events and she misses her husband very much! They moved to a penthouse flat in sheltered accommodation not long before he discovered he had cancer and it was a huge downsize which neither of them enjoyed but had to be done because the house was getting too much for them. He is one of the old school who gets on with life in the best way she can and she sings in the church choir! We chatted today and she told me about the amateur dramatics that she had taken part in since she was eight.

I walked back from there and got home at 5.15! Fortunately the rain didn’t happen so all in all a good day!