Wow! How nice to see the sunshine today and not to be in a hospital ward. It meant that we could enjoy the day and feel the warmth at our backs for a change!
John certainly felt the warmth at his back. He had brought the Lotus out of the garage and was tinkering away with it all morning with George, who had come to help out. I think they managed to get a few things done but John was very tired by the afternoon and went to bed for a couple of hours. George tinkered on.
Meanwhile, the other car was loaded with stuff for the tip and Paul came over to help me with that. It was lush (as much as a trip to the tip can be) in that Paul commanded me to stay in the car, open the boot and relax while he threw the stuff away. That’s the first time I’ve been to the tip when I haven’t had to work hard!!! Smashing.
We came back home and picked up Sue before travelling into Kenilworth for a mini-visit to the tip there as well, with some brash from the pond clear-out the other week. Then we toddled across to Boots for more medication for the ol’ man to try on the stubborn digestive system.
On the way back from the Kenilworth jaunt and nearly home, Paul pulled the car into The White Horse car park. Well, that felt exciting! And sure enough it was!! We sat in the garden and out came Paul with two glasses of Prosecco for me and Sue. How lovely was that? We were thrilled with the treat.
We were just gathering ourselves together to make it home when Danielle phoned wondering where we were. Darn it! She’d missed out on a pub visit…. “We’re on our way,” I said.
Danielle had come round with the two youngest children for the afternoon and that was lovely too. We got the little splash pool out and Thomas and Oliver thoroughly enjoyed themselves playing with the water and the sand pit – and generally running about the garden with not a lot on.
Sue and I continued with the Prosecco theme and enjoyed ourselves playing in the splash pool with the children too!!
Regrettably, the medication I had bought was the wrong one…… Paul undertook to have another go at buying the right thing and finally found some in a chemist’s in Leamington. However, it transpires that that hasn’t worked either, so it’s a call to the doctor’s tomorrow morning……
John got up after his snooze and joined us in the garden, in the balmy late afternoon air, to have a good old chat about progress on the car. Lovely. This is how it should be, isn’t it?
Take care everyone. God bless.
Lovely to see you all getting back to normal xx