Back to it

The holiday is over and we are back to it. We were up early this morning on a run into Birmingham to Heartlands Hospital for John’s immunoglobulin treatment. Neither of us particularly wanted to be making an early morning trip, but needs must, of course.

By all accounts the treatment went smoothly, which is always a relief, and John managed some TV watching and a little nap, so the morning wasn’t too bad.

Meanwhile, having driven John over to the hospital, I came back home and decided to do a little bit more on clearing the dining room, ready for stripping the wallpaper and ripping out the carpet at some point.

Currently, I am still filling boxes with all the goodies that normally reside in the dining room and wondering where to store the boxes so as not to incur John’s wrath…. the top of the kitchen cupboards seemed a good idea to me, until he noticed……. hehehe.

I have absolutely no idea how to decorate the dining room yet and I am hoping that inspiration will come to me as I clear it out. Furniture though, is a problem because although what we have is very old-fashioned and rather knackered, it is functional and does the job very well. We have yet to find anything that will do the trick quite as well. I guess we’ll have to keep looking.

This afternoon was a very pleasant one as we had a Zoom session with Sue and Rod in the Lake District, who were busy admiring the snowflakes falling as we chatted. So lovely to see them – it’s ages since we’d had a good old natter. They’d had a busy time on and off since Christmas, and I’ve been in the doldrums so have had no oomph to be socialising. However, we really enjoyed each others’ company and I felt better for seeing them – albeit remotely and virtually.

Spirits buoyed, I spent another hour in the dining room carefully wrapping my treasures while John had a nap. The treatment always wears him out, poor man, so a couple of hours sleep was in order before we sped upstairs for Quiz Night.

Quiz Night was fun once again but neither of us were on top form and didn’t know that many of the answers. Not only that, when we did have an answer we weren’t always able to say it loud enough for everyone to hear, so our comments were sometimes lost in the ether. We enjoyed ourselves nonetheless, despite John feeling very tired, and we were grateful to see everyone.

In other news, there was a shock text message from Dawn this morning to let us know that ‘Jack tested positive for Covid this morning‘. My response? ‘Oh, blimey!‘ I also hope that he won’t be too poorly and he won’t pass it on to anyone else in the locality…….. it’s everywhere, isn’t it?

I gather cases are starting to come down a bit, but deaths and hospital admissions are going up. That is par for the course, I suppose, but I am at a loss as to understand why the general population seem to think it’s all over.

Take care everyone. God bless.