Out and about

We were busy yesterday – we went out!! Can you believe it?

I had yoga in the morning which was very good and helped me stretch my body out from its curled up position – the ‘red light reflex’ according to the Somatics class I’m attending – to the ‘green light reflex’, which is a much happier place. I also dealt with the ‘trauma reflex’ which I seem to have in abundance….. I blame the children – carrying them on my hip for years on end has done the damage, and now I’m repeating it with the grandchildren. Ha! Never learn, do we?

Once I was home, we bustled about a bit, having a bite to eat and a cuppa, before setting off to the NEC to the Classic Car Exhibition. Well, I am not sure what I was expecting there, but we both really enjoyed ourselves. There was plenty to see both in the car line and in the assorted spare parts line.

For me, my interest is held when there’s a project to relate the pieces to and of course, we were on the prowl for spare parts for the Lotus. We found a company that does tiddly bits of things like screws and nuts and bolts – and they are based in Torrington Avenue – how good is that? Just down the road, so John can toddle off there whenever he wants.

We had a good look round a stall which had loads of vinyl covering – not quite sure which bit John is doing on the car, but we brought some cool samples home for it, some special glue and great advice on how to use a hairdryer to warm the fabric up as you fit it……. I am sure that’ll do the trick.

We had a good old wander in both the halls, admiring the cars, marvelling over the paint jobs, reminiscing over the cars we remembered that our parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles had and, of course, those old jalopies we and our friends had back in the day, too. Ah…. yes, good old nostalgia.

After a couple of hours we thought we’d had enough, so we set off back to the car. Just outside, John’s ‘Map My Walk’ app pinged him to tell him that a) he’d been walking for 2 hours, and b) he’d done 3.5 miles. How good was that?

Made us laugh though when we looked at the route we’d taken….. higgledy-piggledy…. then….Zoooom……. forgot to turn the app off when we got in the car, didn’t we?

We’d had a lovely time, but by the evening, I went flop again and couldn’t quite bring myself to sit and write about our day.

Another reasonable day today though, kicking off with a fabulous little video of Thomas singing to some music, and then chatting to Harriet, Paul and Freddie, who were about to go across to the woods and walk Mac. They are all feeling better if a little tired.

We spent a fair bit of the day running backwards and forwards to shops in Kenilworth and then Dunelm in Coventry to buy new bedding and a gift for Mum as it’s her birthday on Tuesday. Minor panic as we got in the car to come home – John had lost one of his hearing aids. We hunted around the car, then I set off to re-trace our steps. After about ten minutes, John phoned to say he’d found the darned thing – it must have been in the folds of his clothes somewhere because, as he stood up, out it plopped. Phew…..

John has had a particularly good day, mending things we’d broken. He put up a new shelf in the downstairs shower room and re-fitted the cover on the fan in the there. Excellent stuff. He then went into the garage to have a tinker on the car. I wonder if he checked that the nuts and bolts he’d bought yesterday fitted?

Meanwhile, I sat and read my book in the hope that it will contribute to an improved feeling of well-being – and ate chocolate. Fingers crossed it helps.

Take care everyone. God bless and get well soon those of you who have recently contracted COVID.