Grinding it out

John isn’t feeling very well today, so he stayed in bed this morning, while I busied myself with one or two errands.

Nothing exciting, of course, but jobs on the list ticked as done, including a trip to the charity shop to take clothes that are ‘past-their-usefulness’ date. I popped into the jewellers while I was in Cannon Park, to get a new battery for Mum’s watch, too, and spent a good quarter of an hour in there chatting. The jeweller greeted me like a long lost friend, as I was a regular customer in there over the years, and we shared a few stories.

This afternoon we were at the QE for a respiratory physiotherapy appointment which turned out to be very helpful. The therapist was very personable and explained things really well – in words of one syllable that both John and I could relate to. John has just got to follow the regime now…..fingers crossed that he will…..he was a bit out of puff when we got to the hospital much to the concern of several members of staff, so a wheelchair was brought into action for the visit. John hates that, but needs must, eh?

John was exhausted when we got home so I’ve been feeding him chicken broth, paracetamol, lots of drinks and making him rest. All in an attempt to improve his health so that he can participate in all the ‘jollies’ we’ve got planned over the next few days.

Unfortunately, he’s had to duck out of the boys’ trip tomorrow as he’s not up to that. He was going to go out with the lads from Centre Stage/Quiz Night for the day – I am not even sure exactly what they are planning to do, as John has just put ‘Sub-Mariners Trip’ in his diary. Disappointing of course, but we’ll take each day as it comes and then we’ll see.

So we’re grinding it out, as they say, with the same old, same old…… Hoping that the ol’ man will feel better soon, but I’m keeping my eye on his temperature.

On the COVID front, just for the record, there’s 31,117 people freshly confirmed as infected today and 85 deaths in the community, with 47 in hospitals on 27 & 28 July. The graphs are showing increasing infections among young people of course, because they haven’t had their vaccinations. I think it’s time to get the programme rolling out for them now, don’t you?

Anyway, all for now, as I have nothing else to report. God bless. Stay safe, everyone.