A Palm Sunday Blessing.

 A Palm Sunday Blessing.

Just before we arrived in semi darkness to start our three or four times a week run’ at about 5.45am this morning, I had a bit of a panic because I realised that I had left my phone at home and on asking Steve where his phone was, it was double stupidity since he had also left his phone in the kitchen. I had just finished saying that with Murphy’s Law already in play, that it was sure to be the one morning, after fifty years of frequenting the woods in Angmering Park Estate that we would see a huge white deer caught in the headlights right in front of us. Then not one minute after my semi rant about our dopey-ness, Lo and Behold; Two young Stag’s with what looked like full twelve point antler sets, casually crossed the narrow lane, only about twenty feet in front of us. They daintily tripped down the bank from the woods on the left side skittered across right in front of us and in no particular hurry wandered into the woods on the right side of the track. So close. So delightful. No flippin’ camera!

They were grand little chaps, so stately. We felt blessed and Steve said something like that we didn’t need to see anything else because that was the best close up sighting in a long time. We felt blessed on a day which to us is an important one to us. Palm Sunday. Not that Easter we be celebrated in the usual way this year at all.

Still we were happy with the day being marked in such a pretty way. Actually the wild life count on our run today was in fact twelve deer including the young stags by the time we got back to the car. We nipped quickly to our small warehouse and picked up the post. When we get home I wipe down everything on the car Steve has touched after going into the works, then we put all our clothes in the wash as a further precaution. These are not times to be careless.

Last evening we watched ‘The Professor and the Madman’, on TV, it was an Amazon original. You may wonder how come most of the films that we watch get such good rating from me. That has something to do with the fact that I choose most of the movies. Even Steve admits that I make better selections than he does in the area.

I’m a bit picky.

Simple rule… no trash.

This film starred Mel Gibson and Sean Penn. It was an interesting historical drama about Professor James Murray compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19^th century. Astonishingly, he receives 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Lunatic Asylum, Dr William Minor, who has been sent there after committing a murder directly in front of the murdered man’s widow. I will give no more away. The 2 hour 5 minute 2019 film was directed by Farhad Safinia. It flies by because it is so gripping.

It has a mainly male cast apart from Natalie Dormer who plays the widow, and Jennifer Ehle as Murray’s wife. In supporting roles, Eddie Marsan and Steve Coogan are also excellent.

There is some great entertaining stuff on TV during the plague thank goodness.