Despite a luxury bed and luxury linen, John said he had ‘a busy night’. He always has a busy night!! I, on the other hand, slept wonderfully well and woke up lovely and refreshed this morning. The sun shone in and the birds were singing their little hearts out to greet me.
We had decided that we’d have a lazy day – perhaps a little walk later – so I took my time over my breakfast, watching the clouds chasing across the sky and warming myself in the sunshine.
Afterwards, John was still catching up on his rest, so I did a little photo shoot to send to the kids. Took a while deciding on the pics and then composing them, but it turned out quite well I thought.
Then it was time to pamper myself. Something I haven’t done for a very long while. We were lucky to get our little trip to Ragdale in before lock down, but since then, I really have done nothing. Not even had a haircut. So this morning I spent hours faffing about in the bathroom. Oooh, it were lovely!!! Had a bit of panic about drying my hair though. Couldn’t get the hairdryer to switch on. Now that would have been a disaster if I couldn’t dry my hair! Mrs Frizzalot here we come……. anyway, all’s well that ends well. The switch I needed was in our bedroom, not the bathroom. Frizzy hair avoided!!
Meanwhile John was up and making me a nice cup of tea before watching a bit of TV. I finally unpacked the rest of our things and joined him. He was watching yesterday’s T20 cricket – England versus Australia. We had forgotten about it yesterday with the excitement of travelling and arriving here. But we’d heard it was an exciting match. Even though I knew the result, I was on tenterhooks. It was such a thrilling cricket. For those of you who don’t know, England won – after Australia looked like they’d walk it with about four overs to go. Great fun.
This afternoon we took a bit of a walk down the road. The weather was pleasant and the terrain not too hilly. We passed the little shop and peered in through the window. “Shall we get a paper?” John suggested. Fat chance. He’d temporarily forgotten that most papers had been held up by Extinction Rebellion blockading the newspaper delivery points. Ah well, plenty of books to read and news to listen on the the telly if we want to.
We meandered on down the road and came upon live cricket at the local cricket club. We ventured in to watch at a distance. Chaps were in their underwear, kitting up, seemingly oblivious to any spectators around the field. We established that the home side had scored 130 runs and the visiting side, Sandringham, were just beginning to bat. “Will you make the 130 runs?” I asked one chap who wasn’t ‘in flagrante’. “Oh, yes, should do, should win” he said, confidently. We watched with interest. I did a bit of a running commentary. The bowler was coming in, and he bowls…. oh!! The batsman’s been clean bowled! I turned to the young man who’d confidently predicted a win, and asked what the score was. “I think that’s five for one,” he grinned, ruefully. “Let’s watch a bit more, shall we, John?” I asked “ Let’s watch them get a run or two,” John agreed, so we stood in the warm sunshine a bit longer. Well, we watched two more batsmen get out and four leg-byes scored, before we left…….. I wonder what the final score was…..
We continued on our walk for a little longer before turning back and considered what we might have for our evening meal. I was starving hungry by the time we’d got back and was tempted by chocolate, or crisps, or nuts. But we’d had a bit of conversation earlier on about me getting fat. I said I thought was fat. John said he thought I was, well, getting….. round. Hmmmm, perhaps I’ll give the snacks a miss. Drank wine with our meal though! Ha! Take that! Oh….. it’s only myself who’s going to ‘take that’……. oh…. best think again then.
This evening we decided to settle into the rather comfy sofa and watch a film. Nothing too dramatic – just a gentle film that wouldn’t tax us too much – Ocean’s Twelve. Always makes me laugh that film – it is all so improbable and impossible but very satisfying. John fell asleep through much of it. He’s seen it too often to care about the capers going on and would probably have preferred something a bit more gritty. When it was finished, I handed him the controller so he could find something a with a little bit more bite to it while I went to do my jigsaw.
I am determined to do the jigsaw this holiday. We had bought it last September when we were up in Northumberland, with a view to completing it at Christmas. We didn’t do it then, though, having selected a more Christmassy one. When the lockdown started I got it out, fully intending to complete it in the ‘couple of weeks’ we might be isolated. Then Mum came to stay and I didn’t fancy doing it over the following weeks and months we were isolating. So it’s never got done. Now’s my chance!!
As you can tell, haven’t watched the news. However, I did see on Twitter that over 1,800 people are reported as being infected with COVID-19 today….. I know not so many people are dying as at the beginning, but the infection rate is climbing which really isn’t good news.
I am not thinking about it too much though as we’re keeping well away from people (even at the open air cricket match!). I am determined to enjoy our break away and leave Anxiety behind. Take care everyone. God bless.
What a lovely day! Hope you have many more.