April – and it ought to be warmer, hadn’t it? Apparently it’s been the frostiest April for a long time. However, it didn’t feel too cold this morning on my walk with Chester, and the sun was trying to peep through, so we had a really lovely time. Since then though, the weather seems to have grown chillier as the day has gone on and by this evening there have been heavy downpours pelting at our windows. Brr….. c’mon Mr Sunshine, where are ya?
I intended to warm the day up with a bit of a fire today, burning Mum’s confidential waste. In the end, though, I didn’t do it. I spent an awful lot of the time sleeping. This morning was fine – no real side-effects from the jab yesterday, other than a sore arm – and I got on with the day very well. I walked the dog, took the keys back to the manager at Mum’s flats, contacted the council to let them know Mum was no longer liable for Council Tax, cut some rhubarb for a crumble, and so on.
I prepped lunch and we said goodbye to Andrew, waving him on his way back to Cambridge after his valuable help and support over the last few days. I thought I’d sit for a few minutes before getting on with making the crumble. Oh…….maybe not…. back of the eyelid inspection instead……
I woke up about an hour later, but felt groggy. “I think I’ll just go and lie on the bed for an hour, John,” I said. He nodded, “Good idea.” It was about half past three. When I got there I decided to get into bed instead. Four hours later…….
I was due to join in with the Bibliophiles Book Club this evening at seven o’clock. Oops……. I finally logged on at seven-thirty to apologise for missing it. It transpired that there were not many of us anyway, so we had a quick chat and I made my apologies and left. John had come upstairs to wonder where I was. “Sorry,” I said, “I’ve only just woken up!” John looked sheepish. “Me, too,” he said. “I’ve been asleep the whole time you’ve been up here!”
The poor dog was desperate for a visit to the garden or go for a walk, woofing at me as if to say, “Where on earth have you been?” I opted for him to visit the garden and he was happy to be outside, but insisted that I keep him company.
Once Chester was satisfied that I wasn’t disappearing upstairs again, he was happy to eat his tea. I think the cats were also starving as they stared at me accusingly, too. I don’t know what they were all making a fuss about. Their tea was only a couple of hours late….
I finally made the crumble this evening and that was all we had for tea – neither of us keen to be whipping up any culinary treat.
I am blaming the COVID jab for our tiredness, but you all may think otherwise…. Anyway, as regards the sleep – we must have needed it. But will we sleep tonight? We’ll see.
In the meantime, the news is reporting positive things about COVID and an experiment is under way in Liverpool to hold a rave of lots of people who have tested negative for the virus, to see if there’s an outbreak afterwards. Interesting, eh?
Because I made a decision many months ago to always report the COVID figures, here they are for today.
People with positive tests – 2,381; people who died in the community – 15; people who died in hospitals on 27 & 28 April – 6. It’s 403 days since the beginning of Lockdown One (409 days for John and me) and 19 days since the government said we could meet outdoors following Lockdown Three.
Have a good weekend, everyone – despite the grotty weather predicted. God bless.