The weather has been warm the last couple of days, in the 80s, but there is some severe weather moving in. Early this morning there was heavy rain and a thunderstorm, but it later cleared up. I didn't go to Emmanuel, I'd promised Bruno - another hospital chaplain - that I would go to his church, and he seemed very pleased that I'd taken the trouble, he introduced me to the congregation and at the end of the service asked me to lead the prayer from the front - a bit of a challenge for a shrinking violet like me.
The church he is establishing is a US Full Gospel Mission, and looking at it on the internet I see it has a large following in Cameroon where he comes from. Bruno has a lovely family, and his wife teaches at the Catholic University of St Gregory's in Shawnee.
Pattisue came out of her service rather early and rang me - it's the first time my phone has gone off during a church service. She suggested lunch and we went to the China Buffet.
They still have to get their dig into Camilla, even when the item is nothing to do with her. Kate undoubtedly is dazzling, and she has all the best qualities Diana had - warmth, compassion, the common touch; but in addition she is intelligent, educated, and possessing a great deal of common sense, I don't think anyone would disagree that she would be a great consort for William.
I have come out of the closet. Now I am pushing 80 I am past caring. Kiwanis were nominating their officials for the coming year and Louise informed me I was nominated to be on the audit committee. So I had to confess I was innumerate. She thought I just meant bad at maths and patted my hand, saying Dale and I could do it together. I had to explain she wasn't getting it, giving me a sheet of figures was like expecting an illiterate person to be able to read something, and I couldn't possibly put my signature to any accounts saying I had looked them over. Their reaction could best be described as 'stunned'. I think they wondered how someone so normal looking could be so learning disabled.
What puzzles me is that there is a lot of help for the illiterate. There are classes at the moment in Shawnee library helping people to read, but no one has thought to help the innumerate, I would sign up like a shot. I have occasionally looked at children's maths work books and wondered if I can teach myself.
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