Terry Waite is coming to stay in our B and B room when he comes to open the Emmaus hostel in Winchester next week. He wrote recently about his five years of captivity in Beirut, (four in solitary confinement) saying that it had given him a taste for silence, and he has recently applied for membership of the Quakers though he is an Anglican priest. He says he finds church services a bit too busy, all that standing up and sitting down. I agree with him.
My dear friend J came yesterday who is younger than I am, but we talked a lot about ageing, and ways of getting to grips with it. She said she had read that Joan Bakewell who is now Minister for Elderly People or some such title ,recommends that everyone in Homes or geriatric hospitals should have their CV on the end of their bed plus a picture of them in their prime so that everyone would know what they once were.