Sunday, Sunday

It being Sunday, I’d have liked to have gone to church. In fact, a service was on in the hall today, but I have decided to avoid contact with people, by and large, so that there’s no possibility of virus snatching. In the end, I listened to a download from Lectio365 instead and that gave me my fix for the day.

I must say, though, I had been hoping for some chit-chat with other church members in our little prayer group, but that’s orf, too, and Zoom doesn’t appeal to the membership, so I’ll just have to be patient.

So, in the absence of all things Sunday, we opted to do more of the same. The same being: thinking about food, prepping food, eating food; thinking about a walk, prepping for a walk, going for a walk; thinking about the jigsaw, psyching myself up to do a bit of jigsaw, actually doing some jigsaw; and so on, with the washing, the washing up, the tidying round, and a bit of TV watching.

I was hoping to steer myself round to a different way of doing things today in an attempt to make life a bit more exciting but, being stuck in a rut, I more or less kept to the same, same. Maybe tomorrow?

Anyway, we did get ourselves out for a walk, after a little bit of a misunderstanding between us. I was waiting for John to be ready, so busied myself with something in the meantime. John was waiting for me to be ready, so busied himself with something. I finished what I was doing, saw that he was busy, so did something else. He saw I was busy, so he did something else…..etc. etc. etc.

However, the walk was wonderful. I feared we may have missed the best of the day, because it had been glorious sunshine early on, and the clouds had started to gather. But no, the sun continued to shine on us and it felt good. It was a great ‘Sun’-day walk……

This afternoon, we opted to relax and not push ourselves with jobs, so John played on his poker game and watched TV and I had a go at the jigsaw. I have finally got some semblance of order going on now, so feel a bit better about it. This is it, so far…. what do you reckon? Half-done?

We also had one or two chats to the Sutton Sleaths today. William does like to phone us up for a chat. And, I think Thomas enjoys it too – I am sure it’s not going to be long before he’s chatting away as much as William. He’s already striving to keep up! Heaven help us when they’re older – they’re going to be a handful. Can’t wait. I do love a couple of little monkeys.

And there we have it. A somnolent evening, as we scrolled through the Antiques Roadshow, which doesn’t seem to hold the same allure as previously, and the Perfect Planet, which actually sent us both a-dozing….. until it was time to wake up to go to bed.

Just for the record, though, here are today’s figures: 54,990 people tested positive for the coronavirus in the last 24 hours; 454 people died in the community, having tested positive for the coronavirus in the last 28 days; 211 people died in hospitals on 1 & 2 January, having tested positive for the virus; and still no news on the rate of admissions – the figures stalled on 22 December.

We have lived through Day 4 of Tier 4 and Day 291 since the March shutdown – quite nicely, I must admit because, after all, we have a roof over our heads, food in our stomachs and a loving family and set of friends around us. Blessed we are.

Take care everyone. God bless.