I wake up early, but get up late. It’s another gorgeous day in Southrepps – the heatwave continues (for the moment – heavy rain is expected tomorrow). My daughter paid us a surprise visit last night, so we sat up relatively late, chatting, drinking and listening to music.
This afternoon we are all going over to Hevingham to have a barbecue with my wife’s sons and their fiancees and our 2 granddaughters, so this morning (after walking the dog and eating a cooked breakfast, prepared by my wonderful wife) we are off to Lidl and Morrisons in Cromer to buy ribs, burgers and sausages to go on the barbecue, and ingredients for a couple of fattening desserts.
My wife confines herself to the kitchen, preparing salads and desserts, while my daughter takes herself off for a walk in the countryside and I compose an email to Norman Lamb, our local MP – he called while we were out in Cromer, campaigning for the General Election on 8th June. I have been meaning to contact him regarding medicinal cannabis (I’m aware that he, and his party, support the legalisation of cannabis for medicinal use) to see if he would be prepared to state his views on camera for The God Plant, the documentary about cannabis that I was interviewed for several weeks ago. I don’t expect I’ll hear back from him until after 8th June, but I’m fairly confident he will consent to being filmed for the documentary, which would be fantastic – he’s a very well regarded politician, and I’m pleased that he is well supported around these parts.
I’m feeling quite shaky today, and the trip to Cromer has tired me out, so I’ll be taking it pretty easy this evening. My voice keeps disappearing, too, so I don’t expect to be talking very much.
I have a number of comments that people have left on my YouTube channel and a couple of emails that I need to respond to, so I respond to them before we depart for Hevingham – barbecue bound!