The Daily Echo: Our Shielding Story, Day 175

We had plans today. However, we decided to shelve the plans in favour of sleep, reading, jigsaw puzzling, TV and eating. That was it. That’s all we did all day. And guess what? It was very nice.

First off, we stayed in bed until we’d finished sleeping. No alarm. No deadlines. No need to get up.

Did a bit of reading in bed before I winkled myself out of it. Once I was up though, I had a leisurely breakfast and watched the birds outside, for a while. To be fair, it was mostly pigeons that were chasing each over and over again, and landing with very large thuds on the top of the conservatory roof. Pesky things!!

I wandered into the conservatory and pondered whether to do some more of the jigsaw. Well, why not? Spent most of the day doing it really, although I haven’t got as far as I’d like. It’s very hard.

John was up and about, supplying the cups of tea, and then it was Grand Prix time. But what about the cricket?? “No worries,” John said, “I’m recording it,” Phew!!

So first we watched the Grand Prix, in fits and starts, which was very exciting and very eventful. John paused it every so often while he baked paleo bread. Sometimes he left it running thinking the race was going to be a procession, and I’d have to call him through to tell him that there was more drama. Rewind to watch.

And then it was cricket. Which was just as exciting as the previous match, but England were batting second this time. With a few balls to bowl it looked tight, but Butler was in fine form so we sailed through. We enjoyed that!

I did a bit more jigsaw before we ate. Had a lovely meal – steak, but without the chips, I am after all, on a diet. No wine, for me either. Saintly. Well, except that I did have a few squares of chocolate this afternoon….

This evening, we did a bit of our homework. Our quiz buddies have entrusted us to be James Bond ‘experts’, so we watched Tomorrow Never Dies. I took copious notes. But really it’s a dreadful film. Incredibly violent, which I had forgotten, but at least I know what it’s about. Well, I do today. Might have forgotten all about it tomorrow by the time I’ve slept…

Although we watched TV, we haven’t been following the news. Except on Twitter, which tells me that there were nearly 3,000 people infected with the virus today. Scary.

Take care everyone, please. Might sound dramatic but our lives depend on it. Depend on everyone doing their bit.

God bless you all.