Two pleasures
Jun. 18th, 2025 05:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustI went out yesterday evening after dinner. The day had cooled, and the sun was low and golden. I walked round the harbour and along the pier, and met only two couples: we said hello to each other, and were smug that the crowds had gone and that we were still here enjoying the best of the day.
Meanwhile,durham_rambler had discovered from FaceBook that Kate Fox was also staying on Holy Island, and had made a date to meet her this morning at the Causeway Café, which is a van that parks, as it happens, just adjacent to our garden. So we were able to scoop Kate up and bring her back here to sit in the garden and drink tea, and talk more than we have, at a guess, in the last twenty or thirty years. We are always pleased to see each other (well, I'm always pleased to see her, and when we saw her a year ago she seemed pleased to see us, but it's usually incidentally to doing something else, so we don't get time to chat. She had brought with her her little book On Sycamore Gap, in case, she said, she ran into someone she wanted to give one to: and she seemed as pleased to have given us a copy as we were to be given one.
So that was an evening and a morning well spent.
Meanwhile,
durham_rambler had discovered from FaceBook that Kate Fox was also staying on Holy Island, and had made a date to meet her this morning at the Causeway Café, which is a van that parks, as it happens, just adjacent to our garden. So we were able to scoop Kate up and bring her back here to sit in the garden and drink tea, and talk more than we have, at a guess, in the last twenty or thirty years. We are always pleased to see each other (well, I'm always pleased to see her, and when we saw her a year ago she seemed pleased to see us, but it's usually incidentally to doing something else, so we don't get time to chat. She had brought with her her little book On Sycamore Gap, in case, she said, she ran into someone she wanted to give one to: and she seemed as pleased to have given us a copy as we were to be given one.So that was an evening and a morning well spent.
