Doesn’t time fly……?

Goodness me, the day has come and gone and we feel like we’ve blinked and missed it! Doesn’t time just fly?

This morning was a funny morning because Michael texted John to say that their ferry to Jersey on Wednesday has been cancelled, due to the expected high winds. Well, naturally, we’d rather they were safe and not capsized in a boat, but it’s disappointing nonetheless – especially as the next available crossing isn’t until a week later!

It put us in a dither. What should we do? We had planned to join them for their first week of their holiday and now we would be missing them for every bit of that first week, bar one day. John spent most of the morning, and the first half of the afternoon, on the phone to Booking.com to see what we could salvage. Difficult, because the operators all had accents which he found awkward to understand.

Anyway, he’s managed to add some days on to our trip and change the return flight – at a cost, of course – and so we should be with them for a few of the days when they finally arrive. However, it’s put us both on edge today. Our little safety net of knowing that the family were going to be around to help us, if need be, has been withdrawn for the first part of the holiday, and it’s made us nervous.

Meantime, we tried to put it to the back of our minds and settled to the breakfast table to enjoy pancakes, fruit, nuts and maple syrup as a Monday morning treat. Andrew joined us too, which made it a lovely family time.

Graham and Gail took the car and went to their friends, Maureen and Martin, for the middle part of the day and, while they were out, John had a chat to a volunteer from MacMillan for an hour. I spent the time rummaging through all the information I could find on applying for probate for Mum’s estate. Still undecided whether to do it ourselves or whether to ask the solicitor to do it….. must bite the bullet!

This afternoon, John and I had a lazy time watching a bit of TV and sinking into the sofa, only nodding off occasionally!

Before long, G & G were home and we spent some more time nestling on the sofa and watching a very exciting cricket match before tea. Andrew was still around, so he cooked up a storm with some of yesterday’s leftovers and it was, as you’d expect, delicious.

The cricket was so exciting that we put the telly on in the kitchen and kept our eye on it as we ate our evening meal. We, the English contingent, were delighted with the result, but the Australian contingent less so. Can’t think why?

Take care everyone. God bless.