Weekend in brief

So Simone surprised me by coming to stay for the weekend, which was lovely. She came over later on Friday evening after her TWISTing business and last-minute recording, then went to the conference all day Saturday. Afterwards I joined her and TWIST-organiser people for dinner. Why I thought it was a good idea to join a bunch of musos for a conference debrief session I don’t know, but it wasn’t so bad. We then accidentally stayed up till after 1 am chatting back at home. On Sunday her plane left later in the evening so we hung about, went and sat in Berkelouws bookshop for a while, where she began a poem, and I beavered away on my crochet mission and spied on her poetic method. Then we did a spot of op-shopping and other browsing on the way home. Simone came on to church with me where she was more than happy to watch the band rehearse (she does this for fun apparently) while I made sure the powerpoint was good to go and went to the prayer meeting. Then she was off. It was a good time of catching up. There’s something irreplaceable about people you’ve known for a long time.

In Simone’s absence on Saturday I also had a coffee with a rather like-minded friend who’s studying up at Moore Theological College, and I really enjoyed that too, and then nicely bumped into the same person again on Sunday … It was encouraging to have a weekend with so much good conversation in it.