It comes round so quickly, doesn’t it? Another Sunday. Crikey!! I felt a bit melancholy today, reminiscing over Sundays gone by – for those when I was a kid, having run down the hill from church, to sprawl out on the floor with broadsheet Sunday Express spread out in front of me so that I could read every word; or when I was a teenager and I used to go to John’s house and his Mum’d cook us a roast beef dinner and we’d all sit, cramped round the little table in the dining area; or yet again, when we were first married and it was a long-awaited lie-in, followed by a roast dinner and then meeting friends in the pub in the evening. Ahhhh….. Sundays….. I love Sundays.
And the word of the day, according to Susie Dent, is ‘desiderium’ [dessi-deer-ium]: a longing for something once possessed but now lost. Hmmm….yes…that.
I am not sure that today counted as a Sunday very much though, as I didn’t go to church, cook a roast dinner, go to the pub or see any friends or relatives. In fact, we didn’t do much ‘Sunday’ stuff at all. John spent the day pottering about with a spanner, or a hammer, or a piece of wood in his hand, and he tinkered. He actually spent a little bit of time on the Lotus. It really wasn’t that cold today at all so, with the fan heater on in the garage he was quite cosy. And he did a lot of thinking. Puzzling over why this bit doesn’t quite fit or why that bit is skew-whiff.
I finally made a start on a bit of a tidy-up and Christmas decoration removal. I decided not to think about it too hard and just pace myself. First off, I chose to dig down the various layers of grubbiness in the kitchen, which did me a world of good. That meant that my mind was in a fit state to start taking Christmas things off the walls and the shelves and pop them in boxes, which in turn, led me on to dismantling the tree and ditching it outdoors. Nearly there.
We didn’t get out for a walk today, though. John was too busy concentrating on other stuff and, although I fully intended to get some exercise, I was also engrossed in the clear-up, so found that the time had passed me by.
One reason for a little bit of a tidy-up is that Michael and Danielle have set up the larger back bedroom for William, selling off the day-bed and generally clearing the room out of the things it was storing. For example, camping gear, an electric organ, double bed bedding, books and so on. “Hi Mum. Just wondering…… if you wouldn’t mind storing some stuff for us? It’s just that we don’t want to actually get rid of it, but we’ve got nowhere to keep it.” Of course we will. Goodness me, we have five blooming bedrooms waiting for guests to stay in, which isn’t going to happen anytime soon, so we might just as well fill them up with things ‘that’ll be useful in the future’ and make use of them that way. Now to find a home for it all……
After I’d done me chores, I thought I’d just log on to Ocado to do a bit of grocery shopping. Had the shock of my life to find that the earliest slot is 19 days away…… Friday 29 January. Heavens above!! That’s crazy, but not unexpected, I suppose. Ah well, we’ve both agreed we should go on a diet, so perhaps now’s the time. Although, to be fair, we have got a good stock of chocolate and wine in after the Christmas gift exchange, so if all else fails we can dine on that.
We are again getting reports of people we know being infected with the virus and we have had a couple of bereavements too, although not due to COVID, as far as I know. So, all in all, I am fervently hoping that everyone I know is being sensible and keeping their distance and so on in these infectious times.
- 54,940 people tested positive for the virus in the last 24 hours
- 563 people died in the community having tested positive for the virus in the last 28 days
- 247 people died in hospitals on January 8 & 9 with COVID recorded on their death certificates
It’s Day 5 of Lockdown 3 and Day 298 (I think) since we settled in for the long haul in March. Are we getting used to it yet? No, but I think we’ve got to for a while yet, because the vaccinations alone are not going to be the answer to this, from what I hear and read. Ah, well – keep smiling, that’s what we’ve got to do!
Take care everyone. God bless.