Well travelled foxes

Yesterday we seem to have done a lot of travelling, that is travelling in our thoughts & memories.

I suppose it started with a trip to Chicago in 1928, the setting of my novel, “Dead Man Blues” by Ray Celestin. It sounds a dangerous city in those days on more than one grounds – gangsters such as Al Capone & Bugs Moran, pollution, drugs, both alcoholic & heroine based. As the city swelters I’m just glad I’d don’t live there, even if it did have the excitement of all that jazz.

Then I went off to Polperro, Cornwall, with my current jigsaw. I ended up spending more time there than anticipated as my home care failed to arrive & didn’t even bother to let me know. It wasn’t until I finally managed to get onto the office at lunchtime that I felt I could relax in the knowledge nobody was about to arrive.

In the afternoon we went up to the golf club after first having our flu jabs. The conversation seem to float around holidays of one sort or another. We dreamt of our holiday in Italy soon to come - I’ve never felt so desperately in need of a holiday & a break from all our worries. Our friends are due for a Caribbean cruise as winter arrives here. They ae wondering what changes are going to be made to their itinerary as a result of the devastation left by the recent hurricanes, especially when they are only too aware the hurricane season isn’t over yet so there may be more havoc to come. One of the barmaids has just come back from a holiday in Tenerife so we heard of her misadventures (husband taken ill, noisy neighbours). This took us all to memories of holidays, good & bad, we had all experienced.

The trips were concluded with a trip to Austria, and watching “Vienna: Empire, Dynasty and Dream” on BBC4 last night. I found it difficult to take in all that history in such a short programme. However, I did enjoy the pictures. I was whisked back to the Belvedere, the Hofburg Palace, the horse drawn carriages, the Stephansdom cathedral among others. Memories of our visit there a couple of years ago flooded in.

Oh, yes, yesterday we were well travelled foxes.