Sunday morning - was up and about early this morning picking up donuts, and reading at the 8 o'clock. I didn't however stay for the rest of the service. One of our members Elizabeth, recently ordained, has taken over the responsibility of two small churches nearby (as 'nearby' as it gets here, ie 17.5 miles) and I went there with Bruce and Rosalyn. It was lovely seeing her again and meeting members of her congregation.
The service was followed by a bring and share lunch, which is why I didn't stay for the service at Emmanuel, I went home to make a rice salad to take. Also took some little fruit cakes which didn't make it to Kiwanis Bake Sale on Tuesday, they went down better than the salad which was a lot more effort.
It is a lovely little church and I took this from the very back so you can see the scale of it. I don't know how old it is, I didn't think to ask when I was there, and can't find out from the internet. I was intrigued at the Victorian pews because I did not think it could be that old. As you probably know, in Britain we had high box pews until the 1860s, when there was a massive re-modernisation of our churches, and they were largely cleared out and replaced with pews like this. But in new churches now, and in modernised ones, we started bringing in modern seating quite a few years ago.
It was a lovely day. After I got home and talked to Jeremy I had - what I intended - an afternoon 'nap' but slept soundly until 9.30 this evening.
Yesterday, Saturday, I had to go out in the morning to pick up my prescription, one is a medication I take every day and I know doesn't cost much; the other was for 9 tablets of Sumatriptin to treat migraine, which is very expensive in Britain without a prescription, I was one of the first to be prescribed it, and my doctor told me then they were £12 each tablet if I were paying for it. So when I was given the medication and told it was $118 (GULP) I wasn't altogether surprised and took out my debit card. However, the pharmacist decided to re-check it, and they came down to $19.50. I know that medications are much more expensive when new because one is paying for the research into it, so this has come down a lot, the research has obviously been paid for by now.
I thought I'd celebrate my little financial reprieve with a visit to IHOP, thinking I would have a stack of pancakes layered with peaches and cream, or maybe blueberry compote. However, when I sat down I decided on a breakfast.
I don't know how it happened but those two plates in the foreground look as if they are on the table, don't they, but actually they are on the bottom of the menu. A bit of trick photography I don't think I could do again if I tried. I did actually have the eggs and bacon and hash browns, and took a couple of blueberry pancakes in a box to-go.
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