Another beautiful day. So, because I was feeling out of sorts and stir crazy, Kev suggested taking me into the village to go to Heron to get some food and while we were there go sit outside Strezza because it looks out on to the the play area and park surrounding the precinct. They do coffees and after 12 serve alcohol. So that's what we did, we sat in the sunshine under the brolly shades had a coffee and then a pint of lager. It got us out of the house and we had chance to be outside without being bothered.
Kev had washed and hung outside to dry so he was done by about 10.30 am which meant we had nothing to rush home for.
We got home and put the a/c on, I sat reading The Five, I'm halfway through and I love it. Hallie has done some amazing research on the five women who were Jack the Rippers victims and the backgrounds of Annie Chapman Polly Nicolls and Liz Stride ( the ones I've read so far!) Are harrowing and far more than just being prostitutes, indeed in the reading of the women's stories it isn't clear that the first two were prostitutes at all, just forced out onto the streets "in the wrong place at the right time" for the Ripper to do his work. Liz Stride was perhaps the first one actually who was a prostitute, and even then it wasn't as straight forward as we would deem it these days. Being a fallen or lost woman in those days was just having no fixed abode or regular income.
It's a fascinating book, which helps you see these women in the actual way they were, somebody's wife, daughter, mother or sister. Not a butchered lump of meat on a coroners slab un worthy of a proper investigation of their murders.
Later on I watched Sewing Bee and while I think that the sewers left are talented, I do think the challenges this week were geared to play in to one of the contestants hands. It didn't quite work, but I still think Brogan dodged yet another bullet. I think overall Annie will win. She sort of coasted for the main part and has come good in the last three weeks.
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