Short Blog

Had a good day today, although am now feeling tired. Mostly, I think, due to a side-effect of the the jab which we had this morning. However, so far, so good – it’s not as bad as last time.

However, I was up early to take the dog a walk and then get over to Mum’s flat for just before eight o’clock to greet the house clearance people. I arrived at ten to eight and the van was already there. That was good news. Even better news was that they were in, out and on their way within an hour. Ruddy marvellous.

I shot back home to wait for the Community Nurses to come and do our jabs. They arrived just after half ten, having had to take a tortuous detour due to roadworks. I was beginning to get anxious that I’d have to miss them again as I had an appointment at the doctor’s at 11 for him to check out my dodgy eye, but they were also in, about and on their way in ten minutes. Ruddy marvellous again.

The doctor looked in my eye and said ‘oh, yes, it’s rather red isn’t it?’ before dripping yellow eye drop in to check there was no corneal damage. “Did the optician do this when you went?” he wondered. Er……no. The optician did not do a lot. Anyway, the upshot is that the doctor’s taken a swab and sent it off to the hospital; he’s given me some antibiotic eye drops; and said to carry on with the other eye drops to keep the eye lubricated.

In the early afternoon, Andrew and I went over to Mum’s flat to clean it, before we came back and unloaded the van of all the things we’d brought back yesterday.

Meanwhile John was still toiling in the garage and puzzling over the Lotus. He thinks that one of the sills is shorter than the other, so that might be the problem. However, he thought he’d take the sledgehammer to chassis to see if he could bend it into shape……. (I am not sure how much of that bit of the story is accurate, but that’s what I understood him to say!).

After all our various endeavours, we were all rather tired so it was fish and chips for tea and a flop on the settee with eyes closed as the order of the day. I missed out on the college girl chat, but to be honest, I was struggling to lift myself off the sofa so was happy just to rest.

That’s it and Night, Night, folks. Here are some numbers…..

• 2,445 people tested positive for the virus today
• 22 people died with the virus in the community in the last 24 hours
• 8 people died on 27 & 28 April with the virus in hospital
• Day 402 since the beginning of Lockdown One
• Day 408 for John and me
• 32 days since Lockdown 3 eased
• Day 18 of outdoor play 

Stay safe everyone, best you can. God bless.