Never a moment to spare!

We have had a busy day today, one way and another. John had decided he was going to catch up on his sleep this morning, so after a cup of tea and some hot cross buns in bed, he snuggled back down again while I nipped to Waitrose. My aim was to buy some lovely food for a Sunday Roast on Monday.

Great success on the shopping front, and I thoroughly enjoyed tootling round the shop, picking up items I had been promising myself for months, if not years in some cases. A soap dispenser; some chopping boards; a potato peeler; a potato masher……oooh, the luxury.

Home again and John was up and about, valiantly doing the exercises that Paul had given him. It seems to me, although it may not to John, that he is less puffed out while he is doing them. I seem to hear fewer moans and groans anyway!!

I put the shopping away and then we grabbed a bite to eat. We sat out in the garden to eat our lunch and it was lovely. The breeze was a bit cool, so we wrapped a blanket round our knees and enjoyed the warmth of the sun on our faces. Bliss for an hour.

After lunch I wondered whether we should pop over to Kenilworth to say ‘hello’ to Marie, Danielle’s Mum, who is over from Jersey for a few days. We texted/phoned the Kenilworth Newbies and yes, that sounded a great idea. “Join us at the pub?” they said. Well, it would have been churlish not to, wouldn’t it?

We had a smashing time at the pub. The weather was warm and we sat outside. The company was good and Grandpa led the Easter Egg Hunt. Thomas fell over a million times while he was doing it, got up, dusted himself off and carried on; William told us about every single Easter Egg he’d found and the number of Easter Eggs he was still hunting; and Oliver feasted on the gravel path……”Not in your mouth!” was the permanent cry. I fretted over losing the children in the crowd while everyone else told me to shut up and keep calm…….. Ha! As if……

We came home and ate our evening meal, with plans to call on Pete and Dawn to drop their Easter card and gift of chocolate round. John thought he might go in his new wheelchair. Regrettably, I noticed that it didn’t have much charge, so that scuppered that idea and, anyway, after he’d eaten, he was rather tired. All that fresh air and exercise had done him in.

In between times, we had taken delivery of a parcel. Excitedly, I opened it and, wow! What a lovely surprise!! A pair of ‘daffodil’ bird feeders from Pete and Dawn. How absolutely lovely. Can’t wait to put them into the garden tomorrow!!

I did go round to Pete and Dawn’s and left John resting on the sofa. I was very excited about the bird feeders and was able to thank them while I was there, of course. Jack made me a nice cup of tea, and we all sat and nattered for about an hour and then I came away back to see what the ol’ man was up to.

He was TV viewing. He had found a really interesting programme about the capture of mob leaders in America. Fascinating stuff. While I watched I did a spot of ironing so that there’d be crisp sheets on the bed……. ha, ha, more luxury!

And that was us today. Quite a busy day, but we were rather pleased that we’d kept going.

Take care everyone. God bless.