Day 9

Writing about Friday again. Will be skipping a few days to catch up. Pretty sure nothing happened in the days I don't mention. But Friday was special. It was raining. Haven't done Friday prayers outside in the rain in a long while. Brought back old memories. Ahhh.

The architect was back. The wheedling and dealing needed to make the changes to the plans took a while. A couple of hours actually. People don't like other people trying to meddle with their creations do they. Of course, I insisted.

Day 3

Hadn't been to a picnic to this part of the world in a while. But this was hardly a picnic. Really - we cooked everything, reheated it there and sat down to eat in a room with a roof and walls. That should disqualify this from being called a picnic but they insisted. Still we did drive for over an hour, there are no concrete structures nearby and it was all quite picturesque. So I humored them. I spent most of the time there talking to two octogenarians - remarkable people. Was audience to some amazing tidbits of history about the development of the City from where it was 40 years ago to now.

It rained while I was walking outside. It felt good to feel proper rain again. Not the slight overcast drizzle I was subject to the last few years. Real rain that soaks you to your skin in less than a minute.

Watched a few games of football that were on the TV. The difference in quality between the rich teams and the others seems to have only widened. I wasn't complaining as my team won. It was also quite an entertaining display of good footy. But sometimes I feel that the neutrals might get tired of this in a while. After all don't we always root for the underdogs?