I’ve go back to the Scottish woman’s house. She looks surprised to see me. I explain that theirs something I didn’t tell her. She looks worried. I blurt out that we’re run by Buddhists. ‘That’s fine’, she says. ‘You know what it’s like when you’re just new at something’, I confide. ‘That’s how I feel about everything in my life’ she says..
I call back to Joe and he meets me at the door with his form already filled in. He looks delighted with himself as he hands it to me. Earlier he told me that he’d been to India and Karuna sounded very much like something he’d be interested in. So I’ve got two standing orders now but I don’t feel I’ve done anything to get them. The rest of the evening is harder. Not many people take a leaflet and many who I call back to aren’t in.
I reflect that this has been one of the longest, most intense weeks of my life.
