Conditions change

As forecast, the weather this morning is back to normal, cloudy and cool with a bitter northerly wind. Today is a rest day from exercise and I also have no dog walking or gardening duties, so slept in until eight and then had a leisurely breakfast of smoked salmon and cream cheese on rye toast with Italian coffee. Rest is just as important as exercise and allows the mind/body to recuperate. My day is devoted to seeing friends and family, but I also have a little shopping to do on Beverley market, where most of the townsfolk go to shop and to accidentally bump into each other. It is where we go to socialise and buy fresh produce and plants, hardware, textiles, second hand books and goods from other artisanal little stalls. In many respects Beverley is like Britain in the 1950's, but without rationing. It is also significantly less cosmopolitan than the rest of the country.
As well as buying all my weekly vegetables on the market, I also found two bonsai pots and trays in a charity shop, one green the other blue. I have found some suitable saplings that need to be removed from the garden and thought I might train one into a bonsai tree. As I found two bonsai pots, I shall now have to train two, one might be a nice present for someone in about ten years time! Later had a cup of tea with some older friends before collecting my grandson, Clement, for lunch at our local Thai restaurant, which is his favourite. As I mentioned, yesterday was his birthday, and lunch and a football match, are part of my present to him. Lunch, as always, was excellent. After driving into Hull We found somewhere to park at the end of Springbank West, and walked about a mile to the KC stadium. Hull were playing Coventry, who are bottom of the league, and on paper we should have won. Instead we lost 0:2, our fourth defeat in a row. Walking back we consoled ourselves with a tray of fish and chips, trying to warm ourselves through. We had been sat in the upper west stand and were exposed to the bitter North wind. We found ourselves suffering temporarily from "Reality Friction", that state of unhappiness that occurs, when reality differs from what you hoped or expected to happen. Coventry City couldn't really be expected to lose because of Clement's birthday. We soon recovered in the warmth of the car. A cold, but good day.