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Woke early. Breakfast was late coming and included smoked salmon instead of fruit. The tour left an hour late because of coaches on quayside. Leonardo proved to be an excellent and engaging guide. Truly a remarkable country democracy, no army, president changes every 4 years, hydroelectric solar and wind power no oil or gas! Large national parks. The eco mangrove cruise saw scarlet macaws, roseate spoonbills, iguanas, stilts, caracara, herons, crocodile. 2 minutes quiet and we could hear the parrots and nature magic. Leonardo called us family and told us the 5 rs recycle, reforest, reuse, respect. Excellent trip. Rest swam in pool and spa. Champagne in room from room service to apologise so ordered meal in room. Excellent BBC Frozen planet with music played live. 12.2 docked 10am at Corinto Nicaragua and went on coach to Leon. Erick a very good guide. To home of Spanish poet Reuben Dario sad that his MSS are all in  Madrid and then large art gallery nothing inspired me to sketch ...

Mosaic meant to do grouting but not enough grout. Qigong. Watched Barcelona, Costa Rica and Durrells. Did reports on Catenian conference and posted photos. 

Saturday coffee and cake at St John's and excellent saxophone quartet Royal British legion central band. We sang Brother James's Air and I played Darke's meditation and RVW on Hyfrodol. The Newlands 60th wedding anniversary.  Prof Alister McGrath on Inventing the Universe at St Paul's brilliant lecture and good questions. To complete a busy Sunday LAMAG Faith in the community at Hyderi mosque with Richard Wood Lambeth police borough commander, Alan and Ibrahim chaired by Fr Adrian who told me about hate crime at Corpus Christi. Enjoyed The Durrells and Antiques roadshow, also Costa Rica.Monday to mosaic and Bruce finished and qigong. Played Rachmaninoff on station piano. Come dine with me.  To Norwood Catenians AGM. I was very unimpressed to see that the council decision to hold 2 meetings a year at the weekend so that younger brothers and families could attend was not raised so I raised it and got precisely nowhere. It was deferred despite there being 12 present. Phi...