Yay again!

14/03/2008 by Aileen.

Little Shannon Matthews has been found alive and (hopefully) well. Thank God. Heaven knows how it will affect her, her family and neighbours in the future. The awful thing is - in a few years I will have forgotten who she is, and will remember inconsequential things that happened to me today.

As it was the last session this term the Creative Writing group had a pub lunch. Our numbers were depleted as there seems to be a lot of sickness about, but those of us there had a good time. The writing beforehand was up to its usual high standard. At the beginning of the session Stella asked us to write a haiku, and if it was appropriate we would add them to a Get Well card for Pauline, who is not at all well. I wrote

Easter is coming.
Daffodils are blowing gold.
Hope is in the air.

All of a sudden I feel very tired. I have an OU day school at Leeds tomorrow and have not got as far on with my study as I had hoped. I also have the Children’s Liturgy on Sunday, and as it is Palm Sunday it will be an extra long session. I hope to organise a kind of Stations of the Cross for the kids, starting in the main room, acting a bit about the Last Supper in Fr Éamonn’s dining room, going into the kitchen for Gethsemane, and all the way back to a little chapel room for Calvary. I just need to get together lots of props. (And clear it with Éamonn as it’s his house!)

Off to do an omelette now.Then, hopefully, on with Don Juan.

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