Good Friday, hopefully :). Many of you will be familiar with the saying “it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive” but I am here to tell you that “no, it is good to have arrived at Friday”. Whether this Friday turns out to be a great one remains to be seen but we are optimistic, hopeful.
There is much about the day to look forward to. In anticipation of a Saturday morning departure from the island I’ve been running down the stores and had planned to finish off the bacon and the one remaining bread roll for today’s breakfast. This is still my plan though having pushed back our departure to Easter Monday the fridge stocks sitch will need to be revisited.
We had always planned to pick up a couple of sourdough loaves, one white and one brown, ordered a couple of days ago from GG Bakery on Michael Street. Sourdough lasts, particularly as we mostly toast it, so we figured we would take it home with us. Now it will come in handy for our extra days. I am optimistic re this bread. GG Bakery only opened last summer but our first foray, in which the bread was ordered and a sausage roll and two bread rolls were purchaysed was a successful one. The pastry was excellent and the rolls, or baps as they are called in these parts, were large meaning I only used one of them for our picnic lunch thereby leaving the other for today’s breakfast.
Plans for the day include watching the Imps at 3pm. I’m going to ask The Marine if they can show the game. No premiership matches on today so I am optimistic that they will agree. Dunno really. You will note that optimism is part of a theme running through today’s post. The Imps could well secure promotion today. Proportion to the Championship as that league is known as today but in reality Division Two. The Imps’ highest ever league position was fifth in Division Two in 1902. In those days there were only two divisions. Now I’ve lost count how many there are. Fingers crossed re The Marine agreeing to put it on eh?
Before the game we are planning to walk up Peel Hill. This won’t be a first but it will be the first time in years as the state of my hip joints have got in the way for a while now. I am excited about the challenge but realistic that it won’t be an easy one. Hopefully the wind and rain will stay away as it won’t be particularly sensible to go up there if the weather is too bad and we want the view to be there anyway.
To round off the day we are meeting @Richard and Jacqui in the Royal at 6pm before hitting the Royal India around the corner. No connection between the two joints. That was going to be our last day in town but now that it isn’t we have already booked The Boatyard for Saturday night which is a bonus.
So Good Friday, a day of optimism and hope should be a good one, at least in my good book 🙂
…
THG has returned from her morning run around Peel and reports that it is somewhat dank and drizzly out there. I think the outlook improves this pm but we vill wait and c. As Storm Dave approaches these isles we must expect the weather to be even more variable than is usual. Or is this our normal state anyway. What I quite like about Storm Dave is the name. I’ve often asked myself why on earth they come up with exotic names. Ok in the interest of accuracy and/or research I hereby present all the storm names for 2026: Amy, Bram, Chandra, Dave, Eddie, Fionnuala, Gerad, Hannah, Isla, Janna, Kasia, Lilith, Marty, Nico, Oscar, Patrick, Ruby, Steve, Tadhg, Violet and Wubbo. Hmm okay. A few outlandish ones in there but perhaps I’m looking at it from an old fogey perspective. Wubbo is certainly unusual so maybs I should hang my argument around that one. Dave meet Wubbo. You both have much in common. A bit windy around ere innit!
