We always look forward to Wednesdays. It’s Quiz Night and that’s always fun. Tonight was exactly that. Honestly, not only was the Quiz interesting, but we had such a laugh while we were doing it. I shall be forever grateful to Malcolm for inviting us to join in, all that time ago, when Lockdown first kicked in. It has been an absolute saviour.
Wednesdays are often hospital days – but not today. We had a ‘free’ day to do whatever took our fancy. My fancy took me a walk up to Oakes’ Farm Shop to order the Christmas Turkey this morning. Whaaaat? I hear you cry! Well, I’m probably fuelling the panic-buying of turkeys (cos there’s going to be a shortage, you know) but last week when I was there, I’d seen that Oakes’ had put out leaflets saying ‘Order Your Turkey Now!’ So I decided I might as well.
In addition, of course, I no longer have Chester to walk, and I was keen to get a daily walk in, so what better way than take myself off up the road? I also wanted to time the walk, because our plan is to take our weekend guests to Oakes’ for breakfast on Sunday. Always useful to know how long it’s going take to get there on foot. Mind you, I doubt we’ll walk on the day – it’s likely to be piddling down with rain and we’ll choose a dryer mode of transport, I expect. We’ll see.
John was tired this morning so he had a bit of a snooze, but he was busy on the computer with one thing and another, so it wasn’t all shut-eye.
After lunch, I toddled off into Kenilworth to get a haircut. For many years, I was hairdresser-phobic, but the girl who does my hair now is very chatty and just ordinary, so I feel at ease. Not only that, but I am in and out in half an hour flat, which suits me just fine.
I ran a few errands in Kenilworth and then shot off to Wickes in Coventry to return a loo seat that I’d bought but which was too big. I then went to B&Q to see what they’d got and bought another loo seat – which turns out might be too big, too….. ah, well. We’ll either bung it on and hope for the best, or I’ll keep looking.
John laboured well this afternoon, bringing tubs of wood up to the top of the garden, and some into the house, ready for burning and heating the house up against any future cold weather. Our central heating is on the blink so when we need it for any cold snap, we might be left wanting. The radiators come on when we’re heating the water up, but not when we put the heating on…… weird, eh? Anyway, supplies are in!
In COVID news it’s still too many of everything: 36,722 people infected today; 150 people died in the community and 32 in the previous 48 hours in hospitals.
This time last year it was: 7,143 people infected; 71 deaths in the community and 26 in hospitals.
And this time five years ago, we were installing Mum in her flat! Amazing how time flies, isn’t it?? Gosh, memories!!! As Autumn comes on, I’m beginning to feel nostalgic….
In the meantime…….. take care everyone. God bless.
Sorry, don’t know who to credit this picture to….. but fun, isn’t it?
Gosh, I have spotted a spelling mistake in your writing. It is such an unusual event that I feel duty-bound to correct it. As you probably know, “dryer” is a noun (as in a machine) and you were wanting to use the compressive adjective “drier”. I know I’m being pedantic as the meaning in the context of the text was clear.
And my tablet wrongly corrected my text for me. “compressive” was meant to be “comparative”. I presume the same thing happened to you.
Ha! Ha! I clearly didn’t notice the auto-correct!!! You are quite right thought we don’t want to be travelling by dryer, do we??