Saturday

For lunch today, I was not absolutely sure what we were going to have so I raided the freezer and discovered something unlabelled but it appeared to me to be a salmon risotto. Anyway, that got rescued and then heated up and supplemented by some curly ale which in truth was not very nice. We do eat kale but the superb variety which has especially bred ('Cavolo Nero')is delicious with. slightly nutty flavour and I actually bought some in my Friday shop. After lunch, we watched quite a bit of an André Rieu concert. I can quite see how classically trained musicians turn their noses up at these kinds of performances with the audience members and performers in flamboyant attire and much dancing in the aisles. But one has to say that if you were actually present in one of these concerts, you would find the atmosphere infectious and would probably end up having a really good time. It might be the judicious use of camera shots but the impression generated is that people really enjoy this kind of concert experience. After this, we started to watch a Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit which is evidently a kid's style of entertainment. I am not sure whether Meg followed all of the twists but in this story but towards the end we were interrupted by the doorbell. It turned out to be the Asian neighbour who lives in the house opposite the greened area in or little community. She had popped across with a Christmas and. Christmas gift for Meg and myself which was very welcome and left underneath the tree. The neighbour and I exchanged some thoughts about the Christian story both in our religion and also in Hinduism and Islam. Our neighbour told us that one occasion, she decoded to read some of the New Testament story. Something that made us both smile was the fact that whereas in the Christian bible we have the story of the magic multiplication of a few loaves and fishes sufficient for the 'Feeding of the 5000' a similar story has found its way into the holy writings of some of the Asian religions. But what made us both giggle was the fact that in the Asian stories the leaves and fishes have been replaced by chapatis!