Footling, faffing, frittering….

…….our time away today. Once again we spent ages in bed this morning. There was sunshine, but it didn’t draw us out. Our focus was on the rugby this afternoon – no plans for anything else, at all.

Nevertheless, we got a few bits and pieces done in between times which whiled away the hours. And I mention a few of them, because this is what it’s come to – the thrill of doing ‘every day’ activities. Crikey, who’d have thought taking a delivery of shopping would have been exciting? Or mending a cushion whose seams were busy undoing? Or drying the washing on a clothes horse rather than in the tumble dryer? Or fitting LED bulbs in place of standard ones in the light fittings? Eeeh, but we’ve had such an exciting day!

And, to be truthful, the receipt of the shopping was exciting, because John had done the order and he can never quite remember what’s going to arrive. So, when I found ten, yes, ten bars of fruit and nut chocolate for me, I was very well pleased, as you can imagine.

We enjoyed the rugby, of course – well, mostly – John had his eyes firmly closed for a section of the Wales v Scotland game and I popped to the shops for one or two bits during that match. But the Ireland v France game firmly had our attention, going almost to the last minute of not knowing which side might pull off the win.

On the plus side, I do think John is feeling a bit better. He may not yet agree, of course, but I think his pallor is improved and he has found a little bit of strength, if not lots of stamina yet. For example, the washing machine decided to start walking across the utility room floor again, despite having had its innards sorted out a few weeks ago. It transpires that it was the very same lug falling out that we’d had to coax back into place once before. John was able to pull the machine out, turn it on its side and slot the offending article back into place, before you could say ‘Bob’s your Uncle’. I was well impressed.

Fingers crossed that our days of footling and faffing about, and frittering our time away may soon be over as the Spring rolls into view and John’s strength and stamina improves. Walking a mile a day in March should help with that, don’t you think?

I read somewhere that: ‘happiness is not all about getting what you want, it is about enjoying all you have.’ It would be helpful to me to remember that, when I’m grumbling about my lot and generally feeling the blues, wouldn’t it? Now that I’ve written it down, perhaps it’ll sink in.

Take care everyone. Sunday tomorrow – a day of rest. I’m sure we’ll be taking it easy…… God bless.

46,025 people tested positive for the virus today; 167 people died with it; 1,395 people were admitted to hospital. Better numbers? Yes, of course – fingers crossed they stay that way and reduce even further. After all, who wants to be in the ‘death’ column?