Hello? Another week ahead?

Yep! They are zipping by, aren’t they folks? It was September a minute ago and I was thinking about shopping early for Christmas. And now it’s November and I haven’t done a thing!!

And this morning, I was awake very, very early…. the jaw-ache woke me up at 3.45 and, although I dozed a bit until about 4.30, it was at that point that sleep eluded me altogether. So I watched the sun come up – and very nice it was too. You can’t help but cherish moments like these, can you?

I got up early and pottered about a bit – cleaning the chip pan, as you do – before I took John a cuppa in bed. As soon as the phone lines were open, however, I was onto the dentist to say, ‘please may I have more antibiotics?’. Yes, the receptionist would tell the dentist and he should phone me back before 11.00. If not, give him another ring. OK.

I phoned again at 11.00. Yes, ‘you are on the list for a phone call’ and he will ring today…… but by 2.00 I still hadn’t heard anything so I phoned again. Not that I was feeling needy or desperate or anything….. “Right,” said the receptionist, “wait there a minute….” And a few minutes later I was speaking to the dentist. Yes, have more antibiotics; come and get the prescription. Phew!

John agreed to take me down into Coventry again, so we shot out this afternoon and grabbed the prescription, accompanied all the while by a little bleeping noise that hiccupped at us every time we went over 22 miles per hour. What the….? It transpired that John had fiddled with some buttons and set an alarm to tell us when we went over that particular speed limit. Wow! Here was a feature on a car that we have had for donkey’s years, that we didn’t know we’d got!!

This morning both of us were busy in different ways. I was doing a lot of admin up in the computer room, and John was outside, fitting some mesh under the fascia boards to prevent the pesky old squirrels getting in. He’s done a good job so far but he’s dissatisfied because it’s a slow job. Slow and steady wins the race I’ve heard.

My job was reporting a double entry payment going to Amazon Prime to the bank. I’d had a go at telling Amazon that they were charging me twice, but they said that their records were all in order. Subsequently, I started it all off on the bank chat line, expecting to be advised and then continue by email or something. ‘Don’t log off’ said the advisor. Righty-ho. However, literally, three hours later we finally logged off. And they are still going to send me an email with instructions on what to do next. That was a bit of a long haul.

By tea-time, we were both bushed. I managed to cook something to eat but we chose to just sit and binge-watch ‘Show Trial’ afterwards and now we’re having an early night.

We were cheered up by a lovely video-chat to the Sutton Sleaths, just before tea. They had made a dinosaur cake and William was keen to show it off. Good it looked too. We also had our hearts melted by the two boys walking up to the postbox to post a letter. Now that’s cute!!

32,322 people tested positive for the virus today; 57 people died in the community; 18 in hospitals in the previous 48 hours; and 1,054 people were admitted to hospital.

Take care everyone. God bless.