Valentine’s Day

Ah…. Valentine’s Day! A day for loving each other and ourselves. The latter, a lesson I am still learning despite my advancing years, which you would have thought would have taught me a thing or two by now!!

Anyway, it was a peaceful day. We didn’t stretch ourselves too much. Just took the pleasures of the day as they came. The lying in bed, the chatting to family members, the pains aux raisins that were hot and luscious straight from the oven, the watching of cricket, tennis and rugby, and finally, a delicious evening meal, lingered over.

The weather wasn’t so great today so we didn’t venture out. It was grey, rainy and windy, so we just looked out of the windows hoping that the birds would come and fill their faces. We saw some – the pigeons were looking hopefully at the food, but were too fat to even think about hovering or clinging on to the side of the pots. There were magpies, but they were more interested in the insects and seeds in the grass. So, we saw birds but none on the feeder. Ah, well.

This afternoon, I had a look at Michael’s paper that he’s preparing for submission. Fascinating stuff, but he’s got a heck of a deadline to meet. Not sure I’ll be able to keep up….

This evening, after he’d watched rugby and enjoyed it, John helped with prepping the evening meal, which was nice, and we enjoyed the food – some of which was paleo and some wasn’t….. another treat. However, by the time we’d finished our steaks, neither of us were up for the dessert, so that went back into the fridge for another day. Oh, dear, we can’t put it away like we used to!

We had to laugh at ourselves though. We thought we’d dress for dinner. Ah…. if only we could squeeze ourselves into the clothes hanging in our wardrobes. John went upstairs first whilst I busied myself with the last of the cooking. Puzzingly, he didn’t come back down, so I, too, went up to change. I found him, in amongst a lot of discarded clothes, laughing away, to tell me that nothing fitted. Well, I was alright, Jack, because I squeezed myself into the LBD that I’d worn recently for the Murder Mystery. I knew that fitted me…..

In the end, John abandoned all and simply came back downstairs in the one shirt and pair of trousers he’d managed to find that were something like. He looked nice as far as I was concerned. Not sure what he’s planning to do with the clothes that don’t fit. He says he’s going on a diet. I’d join him except that I don’t think it’ll work for me…..

Better news on the COVID front today, which has cheered me up – and I am hoping that, whatever happens in the next few weeks, the majority will have learned how to avoid transmission of the virus so that we can ‘play out’ again in March/April.

• 10,972 people tested positive for the virus today
• 258 people died in the community in the last 24 hours
• 162 people died in hospitals on 12 & 13 February
• It’s Day 40 of Lockdown 3; Day 327 since the beginning of Lockdown 1; and Day 335 since our self-imposed lockdown.

Take care everyone. God bless.