John is still feeling unwell. He says he’s not going to go to the hospital. So we’re monitoring the situation…..
In the meantime, John had cancelled today’s ‘jolly’ with the Centre Stage gang and he stayed in bed all day instead, waking up at various intervals for a cuppa, a bite to eat, to take tablets, or to take his temperature.
As the day wore on, we decided that the weekend ‘jolly’ was also out of the question. We had planned to spend a day or two with Sue and Chris in Hampshire, having already aborted one trip to visit them earlier in the year. Perhaps if we plan it again, we’ll make it and it will be third time lucky…..
We are keeping our fingers crossed that John will have recovered and be well enough for our third ‘jolly’ next week, which is a boat trip planned for Tuesday. Positive vibes please. The best laid plans…..
While John concentrated on trying to get better, I concentrated on titivating about the house. Our plan next week is to go on the boat trip and then have a knees up at our house with Dave and Chris, George and Sue.
That’s the plan, so I thought I’d just check on the state of the rooms they will sleep in. Actually, they were pretty good and all I needed to do was vacuum and swipe away the layers of dust that have landed in there since the rooms were last used….. not that long ago, when Andrew came home, but it’s amazing how quickly the rooms greedily beckon the dust in, and then invite it lovingly to settle down on all the surfaces, isn’t it?
We took a phone call from Boots this morning, too, and were excited to be told that John’s hearing aids were back from being serviced. I had anticipated an interesting couple of weeks without them but, in actual fact, it hasn’t been too bad at all. We’ve had the sub-titles on, on the TV, and there haven’t been many conversations in which we’ve got muddled up, so all good. But even better now that I’ve been and collected them, eh, what?
I was caught in the torrential rain when I was out, so I had to skulk in a few dress shops/shoe shops before venturing back to the car. Shame…..
I gather that the incidence of COVID infections is slowing, which is a GOOD thing. 29,622 tested positive today. 68 people died in the community and 43 in hospitals on 28 & 29 July. The vaccination programme has also slowed down, but the doubled-jabbed people are catching up with the first jabbed ones, with 71.8% and 88.4% of the adult population having been vaccinated respectively.
Enjoy the weekend everyone. Stay safe. God bless.