Ivor’s Daily Gallivant(Making everyday a special day)
Monday November 4, 2024
To do list
(1) Phone GP (not done)
(2) Phone Southampton University Music Department (not done)
(3) Phone Heating Company (not done)
(4) Phone call from Cherry Co-op bank 15.30 (done)
5) Contact Apple support about transferring data from my iPad to my MacBookAir, so I can publish the Gallivant more widely (not done)
I had a piping hot shower and felt so good.
Yesterday The Scallywag found an article about the therapeutic benefits of listeningto music and this morning we listened to Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. Which wasa wonderful way to start the day.
Whoever other than a complete fool or someone who was really in a bad place wouldn’t feel uplifted by music like that.
It was not especially good weather but not especially bad weather. Just another day weather-wise.
After getting up I galloped to the bus stop and picked up my printing from the Herald office and went to Be Be’s for a breakfast of scrambled egg on toast. One of the waitresses who I haven’t seen in ages complimented me on my new glasses.
Next, I went along to Lovells to buy a sketchbook, but they didn’t have any in stock.
When I got to the bus stop the display said there was a three-minute wait. I remarkedto a lady who was also waiting- ‘I timed that well’
It’s funny how you soon become acclimatised to modern technology, I don’tremember when the timetable displays were introduced. Ah Brave New World!
I got home and The Scallywag was sleeping so I coaxed him into action by making tea. On my way in I saw the bird feeder was empty.
After The Scallywag left, I drank another tea, and it was almost 2.40 which didn’t allow me enough time to deal with Apple support as my appointment with the bank was at 3.30.For a while, my energy level slackened. Then I filled up the bird feeder, spoke to a James Clerk and arranged a longer conversation with him on Wednesday afternoon about some financial things
.Cooked the evening meal, did some more work on Bournemouth Bay WinterTwilight, and took part in the last few minutes of The Bootleg Art club zoom meeting.