Was it a busy day?

It felt like a busy day for both of us today. John, however, wasn’t feeling the best this morning and took the opportunity to have a little bit of a lie-in to recoup his strength. Since he caught a nasty cold a couple of weeks ago, he hasn’t quite go back to where he was in March and there are days when everything is a real struggle.

Nevertheless, John was up in time to greet the ‘furniture man’ who came at 11 o’clock. In my head, I thought the man would be here about an hour and gone on his way with a decision made – but no, there was a lot of measuring up to do and then multiple decisions to be made. And we all know how long a decision takes to make these days…..with the devil in the detail.

We were very happy, though, with what was suggested and we were satisfied with the price, so we said ‘yes’ to submitting an order. The furniture man, Mark, looked a bit sheepish when we asked about lead times for delivery. “It’s 13 weeks to delivery,” he said. We were relieved. Delighted, in fact. We have wallpaper to whisk off the walls, plaster to chip off and new plaster to put on, electric plugs to cable in, flooring to repair and decorating to do. 13 weeks? Not sure that’ll be long enough….. Mark was rather relieved when we said we didn’t want delivery asap.

While Mark was doing all his calculations, John went off to the loo. Calculations almost done, I went through to call John in – and this is what I saw: Chester, who was waiting patiently outside the loo to keep John company, had squeezed himself into one of the cat beds………. made me giggle.

After Mark had left, it was gone lunchtime, so we grabbed some crusty bread and various cheeses that I’d bought for the family last week, and enjoyed a half-hour sit-down.

The Kenilworth Newbies were expecting Chester back today, so I took him out for a walk mid-afternoon, having neglected the duty first thing this morning. Once we were back we invited him into the car for a ride home. I think he knew what was coming, because he was quite excited and keen to leap into the back of the car, woofing his head off.

With the pooch safely delivered and a reassurance from the Kenilworth Newbies that they were OK, we came home and basically flopped onto the sofa for the evening. “We’re not doing anything else this evening,” we said to one another, “we’re dog-tired….” (see what I did there?)

It seemed a busy day – even if it wasn’t….

Take care everyone. God bless.