🙏 Sunday Reflection | 23rd May 2021 ✝🎉

Hello everyone and a blessed Pentecost Sunday to you all. I hope this post finds you all well. A mixed week of weather has passed and now it is time to reflect on what we’ve been doing, reading and watching over that time.

💜💜💜 Life 💜💜💜

With the lovely sunshine we had at the beginning of the week, I was able to enjoy a lovely catch-up with a friend, over tea and cake, in her garden.🍰 On Thursday the stormy weather returned, but that didn’t stop my shopping trip, yesterday, to our new Primark store with another friend, which we wrapped up with a nice (indoor) pub lunch.🛍

Also I had a good week at work with ‘my boys’ and colleagues, and I successfully continued my healthy food plan – while there were no new-to-me recipes tried, I did remake my own version of Vegetable Frittata (The Hairy Dieters 3: Good Eating by Dave Myers and Si King).🥘

💜💜💜 Books 💜💜💜

My reading has continued at a steady pace during the week, on my lunch breaks and before going to bed, with my full focus switching to the hefty historical-fiction Anna of Kleve: The Queen of Secrets by Alison Weir, the fourth book in Weir’s ambitious Six Tudor Queens series.👑

Sadly, this means I have rather neglected my other current read: the travel guide, part memoir The Red-Haired Archaeologist Digs Israel by Amanda Hope Haley, however now I have finished the above, I hope to give this my full attention.🕍 As well as these, I have continued my Holy Bible readings from the books of Acts, to catch-up with The Bible Course I was taking part in.

💜💜💜 TV & Films 💜💜💜

As for my viewing, I have continued enjoying the BBC’s crime drama Wallander (2008-10) – adapted from Henning Mankell’s novels and starring the brilliant Kenneth Branagh – polishing off series 2 and 3, which are all currently available on Netflix. I only have series 4 to go now! 🔎

While on Friday, with our Chinese takeaway, we enjoyed a new film on Sky: Six Minutes to Midnight (2020), an intriguing pre-war drama, about a British finishing-school for German girls, starring the legendary Judi Dench, Eddie Izzard and Jim Broadbent.

I also enjoyed a comforting re-watch of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979). Not the best of the series, but nice to revisit the original, hopeful Utopian vision of Star Trek, unlike the dystopian and identity-politics-filled modern offering.😏

💜💜💜 Blog 💜💜💜

Finally, here on the blog was quieter than I had hoped, due to me being busy and a little tired, however I am happy to report the glitches and problems I had been having with WordPress last week thankfully seem to have resolved themselves. So I was easily able to share my review of the fascinating history The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places by Neil Oliver, with you on Tuesday.

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For now, that’s all folks! Today, I am looking forward to finally attending an in-person service at my own church and going to my granddad’s for lunch for the first time in months! I hope to catch up with you all next Sunday. Where ever you are in the world, I hope you and your loved ones are well: staying healthy and happy. God bless and bye for now! 👋

(I have linked this post into the weekly meme, The Sunday Post)

Now in the comments let me know: How you are? What you have been reading and watching? Or please leave a link to your own Sunday post. I love to chat with you all!