Foggy Monday

Crikey! It was foggy today wasn’t it? I got up to the palest of days this morning and was glad I didn’t have to go out in it. Then remembered that we were planning to pop over to Heartlands today to collect John’s prescription, after our abortive attempt on Saturday. Ah. OK. Well, I’ll wait until the rush hour has died down then. And I might wait a bit more.

In the end, John decided to come with me for another ‘trip out’. So we waited a little bit more again before we set off. By then, the fog had lifted a bit and it wasn’t too bad a journey at all. On our way there, John began to wonder just how many times we have done that particular journey. “Thousands of times,” I suggested. And it might indeed be thousands. When I’ve got nothing better to do, I might try and do a guesstimate of how many times we’ve trundled from here to there.

At the moment, though, I have got better things to do. I am now digging the house out after my ‘little go’ at decorating, in readiness for the ‘big go’ at decorating the lounge. Which to be honest, is unlikely to be done before Christmas now. I mean, I still haven’t started on the Christmas card-writing or present-buying yet. And then there’s Mum’s stuff to do as well. Ah, well, maybe next year.

So, I spent some of the day dressing the newly-decorated former office, which we are now calling the ‘SnuGym’. Pronounce that however you like! There’s The Snug one end…..

And there’s The Gym, the other….

After sorting out the SnuGym, it was a matter of clearing all the trash away as best I could. That particular job is not yet finished though, as I decided that cooking the evening meal was a bit more pressing, and then the ironing, which had grown into mountainous proportions and was calling rather vehemently.

In between times, John has spent much of the day asleep, only waking and brightening up late on this afternoon. Startlingly, he fell asleep in the car. After we’d called at the hospital, I thought I’d nip into Tesco to see if they’d got any jeans. All of mine are now pretty threadbare. But no, sadly, nothing that was quite right. However, when I got back to the car, there was John – a-snoozing. I’d only been gone ten minutes…. and he continued to snooze for the whole journey back, and then, once we were home, he simply transplanted himself from a cosy warm car seat to a cosy warm sofa and slept some more.

Once he woke up though, he’s been on the go. He has very kindly drilled some holes in the walls in the lounge for me, so that I can attach tie-backs for the curtains and he’s been busy on the computer what with one thing and another. The one thing he did was trying to get into the newly opened bank account we took out with Virgin. Eeeeh, the air was blue. Anyway, I think he’s done it now….. phew!

Nothing much else to report today, so here are the stats:

• 14,718 people were confirmed as having been infected the the coronavirus today
• 189 people have died from the virus in the community today
• 122 people died int he last couple of days in hospitals from it
• We are on Day 6 of Tier 3, since Lockdown 2 ended
• And it’s Day 264 since the beginning of our ‘shielding’ in March

Take care everyone. God bless.