I had an excellent night's sleep, but I was still up early. I took Di a cup of tea and then settled downstairs with my coffee and the morning news. Once Di had come down, I went for my shower and then, having prepared breakfast, went to join the weekly Zoom call with my Empson cousins. The UK contingent exchanged cold-weather anecdotes from the week, while Simon (in Victoria) sat in his study wearing a coat, bobble hat, scarf and gloves. The temperature in Victoria was 42 °C, and he explained he was dressed in solidarity with us. Soon after the call finished, I received a message from Sam. She was interested in updating the Empson Family Tree book and inquired about creating a hardback version. I said that I was happy to make the updates, if she could provide the data, and also pointed to Lulu.com as the company I use to create the back books. I left it with her.
I took the opportunity to go for a walk. Di wanted to return a parcel to Amazon, so I stopped off at the Post Office. She also had some meds to collect, so I stopped at the Chemist. I carried on with my walk, back past the Jubilee Hall, and then round the estate.
When I arrived home, I thought more about Sam's request. It was a trigger for me to install the latest updates for Family Tree Maker (FTM) and Family Book Creator (FBC). Both were downloaded and installed. There seems to be a licensing problem with FBC, so I have written to the author. In the meantime, I connected up with Ancestry and checked some of the latest hints that it has provided.
Di was pottering upstairs in her sewing room. I took the opportunity to take all of the Christmas decorations back out to the garage, where they will nestle until next Christmas. I then managed to get some Kindle time.
We ate dinner at our usual time, interrupted by a call from Ellie, who had got herself into a bit of a state. She was horrified to hear that we were going out and she couldn't come to us overnight. Di finally calmed her down.
We set off for Chichester. We had an evening at the theatre planned.
We arrived at the Chichester Festival Theatre in plenty of time and settled down for a coffee. At the next table sat John Horne and his wife, Sheila. They live in Pagham. John and I used to play football on Sunday mornings, until I gave up. It was nice to see him and have a chat.
We had excellent seats in the theatre, which was absolutely packed. The play was an adaptation of an Inspector Morse story, "House of Ghosts", with Tom Chambers playing the lead role. I'm not really a theatre person, but I did enjoy the play and admit that I hadn't guessed the conclusion.
The theatre is putting on an adaptation of "Death on the Nile" in a couple of weeks, so we grabbed tickets for that while we were there.
The play finished at 21:50, and by 22:00 we were on our way home. We had been smart enough to park the car near the exit rather than near the theatre. This saved us considerable time. We were home soon after ten, and having set up Jasper's overnight food, came up to bed.
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