Phew! Still warm…

With apologies for a very short blog this evening – my ankle is having fun swelling up when I put my feet down, so I don’t want to sit for an hour at the computer this evening and end up with a club foot.

We have done little today really – especially me, who stayed on the bed all morning, foot up, then trundled downstairs onto the sofa, foot up, all afternoon – and most of the evening. I took advantage of being Lady Muck and asked John to fetch a Magnum from the freezer this afternoon. Yum! We sat, the pair of us, absolutely enjoying them in the heat of the day cos it ain’t ‘alf ‘ot, isn’t it?

John has been swanning about, though, as well – for, despite his current dodgy rib injury, he was galvanised to do a bit of clearing of one or two bits of rubbish into the recently-delivered skip this afternoon. That’s exciting. We’re looking forward to having a bit of a clear out!!

I had a lovely chat to my fellow Bibliophiles after tea and sat for an hour at the computer – which is how I know that sitting with my feet down isn’t a good move! But it’s so lovely to talk about the books you read with fellow enthusiasts.

After I’d enjoyed the chat, I came downstairs and decided that an ice pack would be in order, so poor John had to puff his way up the stairs to collect the ice pack that I’d been been using yesterday and left up there. Oooh, I could get used to this life! Being waited on hand and foot…..I tell myself the exercise is good for him….

We had a great chat to Michael and Danielle this evening, too. The deadline for submitting his final, final dissertation, was today. So it’s done. Phew!

On the COVID front today, there are 60 cases of it in the village now; nearly 40k people tested positive across the country, and there were 19 deaths in the community and 9 in hospitals on 17 & 18 July. I am not sure that the vaccination programme is continuing apace – there are rumours of shortages. However, nearly 80% of the adult population has had it’s first jab now, and nearly 69% have had both jabs.

Take care everyone. God bless.