Out and about

I was hoping for a quiet week, but we haven’t half been busy!

Wednesday saw us charging over to Heartlands Hospital for John’s immunoglobulin treatment, then swiftly changing into mourning clothes for a funeral at St Nicholas’ Church in Kenilworth. We couldn’t quite face the burial and the wake, so we trundled across to the Kenilworth Newbies to drop off a couple of pieces of wood before we came home to collapse on the sofa.

There was no Wednesday Night Quiz for reasons of others being elsewhere, so we sat and caught up on our TV programmes, which was rather nice.

Yesterday, we spent time with Dave & Chris and George & Sue at Brixworth Country Park. And we had some great fun. John is not the only one to have a mobility scooter now, though; George has treated himself to one, too. And, guess what? Did they race? Or did they not?

I didn’t capture the moment of the racing, nor did I capture the moment of the two engineers putting their heads together to compare models and consider adjustments that might be made, but I did capture the moment when they told me off for taking the photo! Hehehe.

It was a beautiful day, weather-wise, and we walked all along the lakeside path as far as ‘the beach’ before we turned round and came back again. Chris, in particular, did well to walk that far, having had recent surgery on her knee. Bacon butties and coffee were then the order of the day as we piled into the café and carried on nattering to our hearts’ content. It was such a wonderful day with dear friends. As ever, I thank our lucky stars that we’ve got such good mates.

John, despite feeling less than on top form this week, enjoyed the day out and has generally continued to battle on. Sleep eludes him very often and he wakes with aches and pains.

But he never gives up! Today was just such an example. He had a good morning because, despite getting up a bit late and having to deal with medical bits and bobs, he went out with Bryan for breakfast. Marvellous. He had a great time, managing to put the world to rights, which always helps, doesn’t it? I was delighted that he’d enjoyed his time out. Makes a change for him to go out instead of me!

Then, this afternoon, he has got on with creating a birthday cake for William, whose birthday party it is on Sunday. Although it hasn’t quite turned out as he thought, he’s adjusted the design and his execution of it until it’s something like. I am sure William will be happy, whatever Grandpa makes for him! But it hasn’t been an easy job so far…..

I spent the morning faffing about at home and taking delivery of some coal that John had ordered ready for the winter. Have we got enough though?

On the health front, we have heard back from Graham and Gail. Following the biopsy, it transpires that Graham doesn’t have temporal arteritis, after all. ‘Yay! Whoop, Whoop! Phew!’ and words to that effect was my reply. That’s a big relief. Thank goodness for some good news, eh?

Take care everyone. God bless.

Susie Dent’s Word of the Day is ‘dumfungled’ (19th century): wearied, befuddled, and just a little used up. Oh, yes! Now that’s a very good word, isn’t it? Another one to adopt!