Is it Tuesday already?

Doesn’t time fly when you’re enjoying yourself? As with most other years, I start thinking about Christmas in October, but then, by this time of the year I find I am still lagging behind. Every year it’s the same, so I don’t know why I thought this year would be any different. So it’s Tuesday already this week when I’m still thinking it’s last week. If you see what I mean….. Help! Must get on with all those Christmassy things.

The thing is, I am still digging the house out. It’s going to take me three days to get through all the paperwork that I’ve neglected and is floating about, let alone anything else. Ah, well – good job there isn’t a deadline, eh? Or people coming to stay?

When I wonder what I do with my time I have a day like today. For example, I spent an hour or so sorting out the mountain of drugs that John had been issued with the other day. Then it was another visit to Mum to get her sign the Christmas card whizzing its way to Australia; and then after that, it was another trip over to Heartlands with John – this time for an appointment at the respiratory clinic.

No wonder the time flies – I’m clearly enjoying myself too much!!

After the respiratory clinic we did enjoy ourselves though. I might have commented before that all my jeans are threadbare, so I looked online and found a pair at Next that might do the trick. I ordered them as a ‘click and collect’ over at The Fort Shopping Centre in Birmingham, and we opted to collect them after we’d been to the hospital. It was late by the time we got there – nearly six o’clock, and we’d been pondering what to have for tea. “Oh, look, John. MacDonald’s. Shall we treat ourselves to a burger for tea?” Well, he didn’t need asking twice. These are on the naughty list…. and it was very nice, thank you.

Once we were home, John asked me what I was going to be doing. I thought about my long list and reeled off a couple of the jobs on there. And then said, “I think I’ll sit down with my cup of tea for ten minutes first.” John followed me through to the lounge, whereupon, I told him I had gone tired and wouldn’t be doing the jobs after all. And promptly fell asleep. So I’m going to bed early now …..

In other news, we are wondering whether we have done the right thing in setting up a Virgin account. John was trying to get into the account today, filling the air blue again. He ended up phoning them and, after about an hour, he finally got through to a very nice young man who sent him an email, advising him to click the link. Which he did, only to find he’d set up the account again. He had to phone them up again and get them to delete the duplicate account. Honestly, it seems that it’s more trouble than it’s worth. Watch this space.

Being tired, I am signing off for the day and leave you with the stats as usual.

• 12,282 people were confirmed as infected with the virus today
• 616 people, the highest figure since April, died from the virus today
• 194 people died form the virus in hospitals over the last couple of days.
• It’s a week, now Day 7, since we were put into Tier 3 since Lockdown 2
• And it’s 265 days since we first snuggled in and lock the world out in March

Take care everyone. God bless.