Back and Forth

We were in and out of the house like ‘Jack-in-a Boxes’ today. So much so, that when my badminton partner phoned to see if I was planning to go to the club tomorrow, she wondered if we’d actually gone away because the cars never seemed to be at home.

John had his immunoglobulin infusion this morning, so we were up with the lark and on our way to Heartlands well before our normal breakfast time even. We had a good journey there, and I dropped John off with an airy wave and his promise to text me when he was ready for collection later.

Home again, I thought I’d call into the local car wash. The white car was looking a little grubby, having travelled up to Belper last Friday and Cambridge on Monday. In fact, you couldn’t see the spokes on the wheels – they were as black as the ace of spades instead of a nice, shiny silver.

A little potter about the house and back into Birmingham for the pick-up. John’s infusion had gone well, and he felt OK – which was lovely, because sometimes, it doesn’t always work out like that.

This afternoon we each did our own thing – me to sort out some of Mum’s photos. Catherine, my cousin, had phoned to see if we have any family wedding photos that she could use as ice-breakers with the future in-laws, who are travelling over from Korea to attend her son, Christopher, and his fiancée, Yein’s, wedding in a couple of weeks.

As usual, I enjoyed rummaging through the boxes to see what might turn up and reminisce on times gone by. Disappointingly, I didn’t find very much in the way of wedding photos but I am sure that what I’ve found will be of use – might do a bit more rummaging tomorrow.

John spent time on the computer this afternoon, doing some correspondence and looking at houses for Michael and Danielle. The house-hunting is proving to be very daunting – and it turns out that they seem to like different things in a house….. oh, crumbs….. I am sure there’ll something in their price range that they can both like, won’t there?

In the late afternoon, we toddled off to Warwick to look at a house there with Danielle while Michael was at work. Lovely house. But no, not right. Too near a busy road; too small a garden and too tiny a lounge. Back to the drawing board again….

And then this evening, it was Quiz Night! Yay! It’s three weeks since we quizzed because some of the others in our group had things to do over the last couple of weeks. And what fun we had. Nice quiz – to which we actually knew some of the answers, thank you very much – and so we scored reasonably well. Thoroughly enjoyed seeing everyone again. It was extremely uplifting. But ‘Get well soon, Nigel!!’ who was in bed with a tummy bug.

Obviously, it’s nice to be uplifted when the news is so depressing. The weather is going to be rubbish; the COVID figures are rubbish; so is the political climate; and the situation in Afghanistan continues to be rubbish. It doesn’t help that I am currently reading a book about a family fleeing from the war in Syria and all the dark times they are encountering – might stop reading that for a bit and choose something else a little lighter…..

35,693 people tested positive for COVID today; 207 deaths in the community; 68 deaths in hospitals on 30 & 31 August; 842 admission to hospitals with the virus.

Schools are back next week…….

Take care everyone. Stay safe. God bless.