We live our lives forever taking leave - Rilke

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Monday, 9 March 2020

Sunday, March 8/2020

Wake up at an astonishing ten minutes to ten. In mitigation, reflect that it’s five o’clock at home, and that only because daylight savings time has begun in North America but not, for another three weeks, in Europe. Be nice if those parts of the world that implement it could see fit to all do so on the same day. Jenny’s third floor is a lovely place to sleep, cool and very quiet - and like the rest of the house full of inviting books.

Emma comes over after Church along with Jasmine who is eleven, and at a lovely point of combining maturity with child innocence. And then a Sunday lunch with roast chicken. Remember before leaving that Jenny has the book that our late friend John wrote, a kind of mixture of history and myth set in Cumbria where we’ve spent time in a house we borrowed a few years back. Rather poignant moment seeing John has signed the book as he died in the autumn.