Another short-ish blog today as I am feeling rather bleurgh…. very much improved from feeling grotty, but it’s almost like post-viral blues today and I’m feeling grumpy. Nothing to feel grumpy about, mind you, but still, I’ll find something if you’ll let me…..
I mean, we had an exciting appointment in our calendars today. It was ‘Visit the Tip’ day, today. What more excitement could a girl want? We had a successful trip out and managed (after some higgledy-piggledy) to park in an appropriate spot, not a million miles from the point of jettison. We ploughed back and forth with our various items and felt that we had done rather a good job of clearing out our house, the car and our minds. It was bitterly cold though.
It was also another day of rugby, with a highly anticipated match between Wales and Ireland. Ireland were tipped to win of course, just as England had been yesterday. But if you will have a man sent off in the first few minutes it’s not going to help much is it? It was an enjoyable match though despite that, and it almost went down to the wire.
Also rather excitingly, we saw Danielle today and briefly had sight of the children, as she called in to collect a much-needed toy and some of the washing I’d been doing. Unfortunately, with restrictions as they are, there was no stopping and chatting and playing today. William was zonked out in the car anyway, so it was just a check-in on their little faces in the car and a wave goodbye.
Also very excitingly, we saw Paul today. How he was a sight for my very sore eyes! We haven’t seen him for a while as they are so busy with work and family commitments, including home-schooling for a 5 and 15 year-old, and hospital liaising over Harriet’s Dad, who has been there for six weeks now, and likely to be in a bit longer. My heart was as full as could be when he arrived with essential supplies. He did chat for a while on the doorstep, which trickled some cheer into our hearts and will keep us going a bit longer.
John played poker for most of the evening after our evening meal and I caught up on some TV viewing. I am not sure whether it was the telly programmes I was watching that made me grumpy or not but, as the evening wore on, I suddenly felt very rebellious and decided to stay up. Not sure who I was rebelling against, but there we are…. no doubt I shall stay in bed again tomorrow morning and me body clock’ll be all to cock once more …. ah, well, I’ve enjoyed my bit of rebellion now.
But oh, the days do seem long. I do hope that the longer days of spring make them seem shorter – and soon. And we’ve still got no birds on the bird feeder other than very fat pigeons. I put some sunflower seeds out to try and encourage different birds but no, there were just plenty of pigeons guzzling their way through them. Time to move the feeder and think again…..
In the meantime, people are still suffering out in the great world outside our doors from all sorts of things. The newspapers are full of terrible stories of murders, domestic violence, companies going bankrupt and the people dying from COVID or lack of treatment because it has been delayed. Oh, Lordy. I don’t know what to think.
- 15,845 people tested positive for COVID today
- 373 people died in the community with COVID in the last 24 hours
- 228 people died in hospitals on 5 & 6 February
The numbers are slowly coming down and there continues to be hope that with the vaccine being rolled out things will ease even further. Unfortunately, according to research reported on today, the AstraZeneca vaccine doesn’t seem to be efficacious against the South African variant of the virus. Well, that’s not very welcome news, just as we’ve had the blooming thing on Thursday…….eeesh.
Stay safe everyone. Take care. God bless.
Sad to hear you’re feeling blue at the moment.
I would recommend a walk but looking at the snow this morning, maybe not !
Thinking of you xxx
Ah… a good walk sets you up for the day, doesn’t it? So I’ve heard. We didn’t go although we thought we might. Tomorrow maybe?
It is tough staying positive through the same old, same old of lockdown and it is always tough getting through the last of winter with Spring tantalisingly close but not here yet. Add to that families near and yet so far and you have right to be grumpy. 🙁
Think of this as a marathon and you just hit the wall :)!!
You are not on your own. Come on, we can do this 🙂 🙂
Thanks Dawn. Yes, wise words.
You’ve every right to rebel. As Dawn says, we WILL get through this even though it seems such a slog.
I sympathise with your situation with the pigeons. Hubby feeds the birds every morning and we are inundated with SQUIRRELS! I posted a photo on Twitter. Apparently the collective noun is a “scurry” so keep that information safe for your next quiz 🤣
Thanks Meg. I am sure we will, but it’s a struggle sometimes, isn’t it?
And how ‘scurry-lous’ that squirrels should be so-called. Have made a note of it…..yhank you very much!