Lunch, Peake and sundry resignations
Jul. 17th, 2011 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylLong lunch with friends and family. Food consisted of potatoes, carrots, peas and onions and cooked lettice, chicken for the carnivorous crowd, and meringues and summer fruits to follow. Events were interrupted, briefly, by a text bringing news of the latest NI scalping, and we were finished in time to catch Cavendish winning the Limoux-Montpellier stage of the Tour.
After the departure of the visitors I tried to find time to catch up with R4's dramatisation of Gormenghast only for pater to announce that he'd once tried to read the novel and found it terrible. In what way, I asked. A pause. Completely indigestible, he adjudged.
Supper preparations — more properly the reheating of the remains of lunch — were interrupted by Paul Stephenson and his resignation statement, which the BBC News channel saw fit to carry in its entirety. When we finally sat down to eat, I wondered how many people would still be in their jobs in a weeks time. Not many I suspect: by next Sunday, we may find ourselves governed by Rowan Williams with Richard Dawkins as Chancellor...
After the departure of the visitors I tried to find time to catch up with R4's dramatisation of Gormenghast only for pater to announce that he'd once tried to read the novel and found it terrible. In what way, I asked. A pause. Completely indigestible, he adjudged.
Supper preparations — more properly the reheating of the remains of lunch — were interrupted by Paul Stephenson and his resignation statement, which the BBC News channel saw fit to carry in its entirety. When we finally sat down to eat, I wondered how many people would still be in their jobs in a weeks time. Not many I suspect: by next Sunday, we may find ourselves governed by Rowan Williams with Richard Dawkins as Chancellor...
