Easter Egg Hunt and The Blues

I was up and at ’em early this morning. I had done an online order for Easter Eggs earlier in the week but when they came, only half of them arrived. That decided me. It was off to Tesco’s in Cannon Park today to see if they had anything exciting. Regrettably, although they had plenty of Easter Eggs, there was nothing exciting.

I did buy one or two, and then nipped over to Aldi to see what they’d got. Again, nothing exciting. So I’m still on the hunt for Easter Eggs. Have I left it too late? Surely not! There’s a whole week to go yet!!

When I got home, John was also up and at ’em, having had a shower early. “I can cut your hair today, John, if you like,” I said, having noticed that it was getting long. “Yes, please,” he replied. So that was the order of the morning once he was downstairs.

In the meantime, I had been texting Danielle to see how her toothache was. Still not good and another disturbed night in pain. In the end, she went back to the dentist who inspected the damage and offered to some local medication to ease the pain. The dentist advised that she was probably in for another week of it. The tooth had been so difficult to remove that the surgery has caused a lot of trauma. Oh, dear, oh, dear….. what a to-do.

We sat and had our lunch and, as we did so, John started to feel very low. Thinking over all the good times we’d had in our lives and disappointed at his current inability to re-create them. He was tired and weary. I suggested he have a rest while we waited in for the solar panel engineer to arrive.

Apparently, we needed a new meter on the system. However, when the engineer (whose name was ‘Little John’) arrived and checked the system, he declared that it was working OK and the part wasn’t needed. Ho-hum. He seemed to be quite thorough and confessed that he was the son of the owner of the company, so if it all goes wrong we know where to look!

‘Little John’ tried to explain what was on the app. I didn’t have the app on my phone, so I had to wake John up to have a look on his. ‘Little John’ wanted to show us some of the workings of the meters, so ‘Big John’ had to get up off the settee to take a look….. Bless him – that was his afternoon nap well and truly disturbed!

After the engineer had left, we spent about twenty minutes trying to load the app on my phone. What a palaver. But we finally did it, and patted ourselves on the back for cracking some modern technology. I tell you, it’s getting worse…… we hardly know what day of the week it is now.

John’s low mood continued on into this evening. “Let’s go out!” he’d exclaimed earlier in the afternoon – but we couldn’t go then because the solar chap was due to arrive. I had planned to chat to Anita about tea-time, so we thought we couldn’t go out then either. When I’d finished my natter to Anita, I wondered if John fancied going out for tea? But by then, he didn’t want to go out after all.

John was cold, so I lit a fire and prepared a comforting evening meal. As the evening wore on, he felt too hot then. Eeeh…… but it’s a hard life; poor John doesn’t know what he wants to do just at the moment. I’m hoping a good night’s sleep might help tonight. Fingers crossed anyway – and prayers might help, if you have any spare.

Take care everyone. God bless.