Well, no thunderstorms and no hail, but on off rain. Maggi comes in for a cuppa. Happy to see her as there probably won’t be another opportunity before we leave. J asks if she has a cassette player. No, not since she left Norway. The object, of course, is to find a home for our not all that small collection of tapes. She phones to inquire of an extremely deaf neighbour whether she might be interested. Our end of the shouted conversation which seems to be mostly mishearing and misunderstanding is as good as a Python skit, although we’re left with the feeling that there would be no point in said neighbour listening to music anyway. In the end M does leave with the tapes, though, in the hopes that they may find a good home.
Do make a brief foray out in the afternoon. There’s a little sun and the rain has taken quite a lot of the orange blossoms off the trees and left them scattered on the pavement, the scent lovely as ever.
The online parliamentary petition asking government to revoke Article 50, which triggered Brexit, has almost reached an astonishing six million signatures, most of them since the beginning of this week. Obviously we haven’t signed, not being UK citizens, but we’ve watched with interest. Had intended to pour a celebratory drink at the record six million mark. No legal force, and government has said that it will be debated but not implemented, so heaven knows what the debate will consist of. Must have some moral force, though. In any case, at quarter past midnight it has reached 5,995,836 - and we’re not staying up for the remaining 4164.