I haven't done a great deal. I ventured to the local shops in Summertown. Over here, pedestrians intermingle among the shops and traffic and you negotiate your way around them, which I'm doing cautiously.
And I've found shopping a bit of a cultural shock, I don't remember it being like this; I went into a shop like Walgreens; picked up several items which I paid for, was given a receipt, and the items are still sitting on the counter. Apparently, I was supposed to not only pick them up and put them in a bag, but provide the bag myself. Sustainable Shawnee has nothing on Sustainable Oxford. So I have now invested in a shopping bag.
On Thursday there was a ladies lunch at the church, which I went along to as I'm anxious to get to know people. We were all seated and waited on, instead of lining up and filing through the kitchen. And we paid for the meal instead of taking a contribution. It was very nice - Pork Stroganoff and rice, followed by rhubarb fool. A fruit fool is any fruit pureed and stirred into custard and cream.
After the meal there was a talk, with slides, given by a church member on the church's mission to the Congo (or as she kept saying, "The Democratic Republic of the Congo) emphasising that the Congo is now democratic.
This afternoon I watched my youngest grand daughter have a skating lesson, and I enjoyed that.
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