WOMAD already seems a distant memory.
Nothing much has happened since then. The local festival of cultures took place the following weekend. As there was (again) no schedule I took pot luck and ended up at the start of it with half an hour of boring speeches, some Irish dancing and a brass band. There was some nice food on offer though.
While waiting for the speeches to end, I popped into the library nearby. Two days beforehand I had seen that the DVD set of series one of “The Bridge” was showing as available. When I went in it wasn’t there, so it seemed that someone had beaten me to it. The library staff member put a reserve on it for me. The following day I received a text message to say that it was ready to pick up. I figured the other copy of the set must have come in in the meantime. I went in to collect but they couldn’t find it. So it was, that on the Saturday I went into the library for the third time as their catalogue now showed both copies of the DVD set as “available”. No. They weren’t. I complained to them that their catalogue was misleading and unhelpful. The woman at the counter agreed but evidently nothing was done as two days later the status was still at “available” and my reserve had not been triggered. I was not impressed, to say the least.
Work colleague said he had it, so lent it to me. I have one episode left to watch. A very good series. I won’t bother searching for series two at the library. Colleague has that as well.
Last weekend I did little other than to go to a friend’s 50th celebrations at a bar and restaurant on Saturday, then brunch on Sunday. It was very pleasant, despite the sometimes poor service. Other than that I tracked down the distant relative who was killed at Gallipoli (one day before they evacuated, so sad). While browsing a WWI site I found another distant relative who had been killed in the Somme. Both were cousins of great-grandparents, one on my mother’s side (British forces) and the other on my father’s side (Australian forces). Fascinating stuff. Who knows what other distant relatives died in the war. You can find possible ones on everymanremembered.org, a lovely website of commemoration.
This weekend is Easter. I have nothing planned and am going nowhere. I might delve some more into the family history.
