Timetable

Alice Suryani


Bristol dockside


Bridgwater canal



So much for my tortuously prepared timetable designed to ensure daily sessions of chess practice, AutoCAD, house cleaning, drawing, paperwork etc. Having attended a meeting to meet Craig Murray the now sacked UK ambassador to Uzbekistan who objected to the regime’s widespread use of torture despite it being a fellow bulwark in the ‘war on terror’ I bought a copy of his book. Can’t remember when I last bought a book not from a charity shop! At all events I wasn’t disappointed and spent a large part of the week reading it, now finished.

A German film at the Arts Centre last night “The lives of others” was gripping and about life, censorship and the secret police in East Germany before the reunification – the atmosphere was very much the same as Murray had been describing in his book

Having noticed a lonely hearts advert in my newspaper one morning I checked it out and soon found myself ‘profiled’ and signed up to a dating service – free but then with no access to anyone without paying for a ‘premium’ service. All the same, a brief 24-hour trial upgrade allowed links to 2 or 3 likely contacts. I met up with the first this week, a very attractive lady with a quite alarmingly similar range of interests and attitudes, but who knows? - We will see. It was too a fine day with the dockside trees in Bristol starting to shed their autumn leaves

Alice in Sumatra has apparently had a successful operation, which is good news but will surely need to recuperate before returning to Jogyakarta and husband Thomas