Bin day again?

Thursday – always a memorable day. It’s bin day – and even with John in hospital he remembered to remind me to put the bins out tonight. So I’ve done it.

Other than that, not a great deal of anything happening here at Sleath Towers. John is still mouldering in hospital and waiting on a decision as to when he can come home. They are treating him for the chest situation and seem to have ruled out most everything else. Although they scanned his kidneys again today, just to check there’s no blockages or anything untoward like that.

We had our hopes up that he might be home at the weekend, but it doesn’t look like it, with a new treatment for a fungal infection in the lungs just starting this evening. Poor John is ever more frustrated – and I am as sorry as sorry can be that I can do very little to alleviate his misery.

My day has been one of pottering about and trying to get through the list of things to do, punctuated by a couple of doorstep chats. One from Margaret who called in this morning with a bunch my favourite flowers – tulips – and a few minutes of wonderful company and some sage advice. Then, later on this afternoon, Harriet popped round to collect a parcel that had been delivered here. We had a great doorstep chat and, just as she was leaving, she said Lily was in the car. Oh! How nice. I nipped out into the cold air and stood for a few minutes saying hello to Lily. Lovely.

I’d also had a lovely chat to Danielle, William and Thomas on WhatsApp, who have all caught colds from one of the little girls at nursery. Snuffles all round and Danielle wanting to ‘phone in sick’. The trouble is, of course, there’s no such thing when you’re a Mum, and you just have to plough on, don’t you? My advice was to use that great babysitter – the television – this afternoon. I hope they all recover very soon.

In addition to the pottering and chatting, I did my yoga class this morning and really enjoyed it. At the end of the session, we always do about ten minutes relaxation, called shavasana, and Jaime suggests that if we want to carry on a bit longer with it after the class has finished, then to do so. So I decided I’d do that today. The only trouble was, I was in danger of falling asleep as I lay there on the mat and had to rouse myself quickly, as my singing lesson was looming.

Singing was good today, and Melissa said I have made progress. Well, that can’t be bad, can it? Although I had recorded the lesson today, so that I could remind myself of all the pointers she offers, and when I listened to it back I wasn’t so sure….

I was not quite so tired today as I had been earlier on in the week, so am beginning to look longingly at my paintbrushes again. I shall be back at it when I find a bit more energy. This time, the new utility room is going to get it!

The COVID figures are still relatively stable but cases are slightly raised today – possibly linked to the children returning to school – but the alert level has been reduced from 4 to 3 as the pressure on the NHS eases.

• 6,397 people tested positive for the virus today
• 63 people died in the community with the virus in the last 24 hours
• 30 people died in hospitals with the virus on 23 & 24 March
• And it’s Day 78 for Lockdown 3; Day 367 since Lockdown 1; Day 374 since our self-imposed Lockdown 1

Take care everyone. God bless.