The brunch for my friend turned out well. It was a bright sunny day, and everyone plus a couple more showed up and my friend seemed really pleased. I got to see some friends and meet new people, and the clean up wasn't even that bad. I was exhausted last night, but being on my feet too many hours took its toll. In the afternoon another friend and I went to a small quilt show nearby in a house that turned out to be somebody's I knew from my kid's school. The quilts were so creative and gorgeous. The show inspired my friend and I to think of beginning a similar group, and starting small, with something the size of a placemat. We both decided we might be up for that. Then we saw an open house on the street above us that my friend was curious about, and it had magnificient views. The house had interesting bones and a gorgeous dark wood entry and staircase, but the rest had been whitewashed, literally, and staged with super modern super boring furniture. It would take a huge amount of money to get it back in shape, but undoubtedly somebody with a lot of money will take it on for the views. I couldn't negotiate the upstairs or downstairs, with my boot on, but got reports from my friend. She drove me to the quilt show and the house, and then, and I call this above and beyond the call of friendship, put out the garbage and recycling bins for me. What a pal.
Last night I tried to watch a bit of PBS TV, but it was something called "Paradise" and it was too upstairs downstairs for my taste. I don't like those series, not the old one or the new, and I'm sick of British class strife and turmoil. That kind of thing has never gripped me. It seems to expose what is already vastly overexposed, and I think I have the American revolutionary reaction to the lives of the British. I read Evelyn Waugh in my time, but that was in my twenties, and living in a British colony took all the romance out of their lives. I am Scottish and Native American, and the whole thing just appears to be rubbish to me. I can't do the Tutor movies, or regency dramas or Howard's End. Not my cup of tea.
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