I'm Busy Doing Nothing......

 
The week starts and all four of us improving but somehow all lethargic, or is it fatigue or maybe boredom. So another quiet day. 

One of the neighbours whose garden backs onto ours has erected a flag pole! Seems an odd place to put it, at the end of their garden and whatever flag they intend to raise will be more dominant to us than them! Hubby does know him to talk to so if it does become a nuisance Hubby will have a chat. So far it's just a pole.

Sunday Daughter, O and the dog went home in the evening after Daughter and O had been back to Kentwell to take down the tent and pack up all their stuff, then come here and put it all away.  Monday I missed them being here. 

Tuesday Daughter reported feeling totally back to normal and I guess we both are too although I'm still getting coughing fits occasionally. We did go to Specsavers and collect our ordered glasses, so we've had a trip out. 

There's also been a lot of WhatsApp activity and emails between us, friendsL&K, friendsL&M and friendsM&G as we are arranging a group holiday in September 2023 at a special location (details to follow when it's sorted).  

There's been lots of laundry done having had house guests, so one king size, one double and two singles have been stripped washed dried and remade, plus the single mattress carried back upstairs and I'm admitting that was all Hubby and not me. 
And that's about it really, an incredibly quiet week. 

But now there's a busy weekend which I'll report on next week.

Bye for now.

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A Family Affair........

 
I'm not sure how much I'll write here this week, covid is making me feel like a full on head cold with the constantly runny nose and annoying cough, and the heat here is certainly making it worse allowing very little proper restful sleep. Of course Hubby has tested positive now too, inevitable eh? Our lovely neighbour-friendA is shopping for essential supplies of paracetamol, tissues and gallons of fizzy water.

Lots of advice on social media of cooling tactics. Read that ice packs up high help to cool the hot air that rises so cooler air falls. Sunday night put bottles of water in the freezer and Monday morning hung them. Of course Monday was a cooler much less sunny day so it's hard to tell if it's effective and there was quite a bit of dripping on the carpet. 

Monday morning the neighbours had coffee morning in the shade of our tree but of course we didn't go out. Heard afterwards there were none from number 22 as they have covid too! Late Monday afternoon we got a call from Daughter to say her and O are leaving Tudor Kentwell and coming to stay as they are positive now too, so we are now the isolation hotel keeping her house germ free for R while she is still performing. Time for a full Tesco delivery. 

Wednesday gave us a little excitement and something to talk about when it rained. Daughter feels better when she's outside so she has been practising her club juggling. O had spent a lot of time outside filming himself and then even longer inside editing. We had a premier showing of his finished sketch which was brilliant. 

O was a bit bored and went hunting through lounge cupboards and drawers, then he finally told me he wondered if I had an 80s/90s camcorder. Actually I have and told him where it is, that's it on the floor in front of the TV. With granddad's help the two of them sorted out the bag and worked out what tapes, cables etc we had, got it all charged up, practiced how to use it and O went filming. Of course it took just as long again to try all our current equipment to work a way of getting it from camcorder to digital form on Os computer so he could edit. 

Thursday evening all four of us did the quiz, which was a bit reminiscent of our lockdown days. 

Friday the dog decided I was her favourite and pinned me to the chair for a lot of the day. 

So that's about it really. The week has ended with O and Hubby feeling totally fine now, Daughter mostly better but still hasn't got her taste back and inconveniently I'm still blowing my nose and coughing all day, gotta pass soon eh? 

Hope you've had a better week.

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All In The Timing.......

 
Now the hospital Eye department is finished with me Hubby and I went back to Specsavers to get the prescriptions we were given in March and April made up. We were helped with the choosing by Leah, obviously a very experienced member of staff. Then we sat with Leah while she made all the measurements and drew over the glass. We took the 2for1 offer but have to pay a lot of extras for various coatings and we both have the top of the range verifocal lenses. My frames were dearer than his, however he has an extra "drivers" adjustment and thinner lenses which help under his motor bike crash helmet.  Phew a very large total bill, which I paid with only a little flinch and then a giggle when I nearly forgot my pin number! 

We go back on the 23rd to collect. 

Managed to visit my special friendKK. She was supposed to come out with me this week but phoned to cancel as she had to have major surgery, I didn't know she was ill and had she not needed to cancel our outing she probably wouldn't have told me until afterwards. She's now home and my visit completely reassured me she's well on the recovery road.

I've had a birthday this week. The day before I had a slight tickley throat and thought it was the incredibly dry weather. On my birthday the tickle was a mild cough and my nose a little runny, so just to be sure we both did a covid test and they were both negative. 

So Hubby and I went out to lunch, but I couldn't eat much. In the evening four of us went to Sutton Hoo for Macbeth. 
Before it started the character Porter got everyone to sing Happy Birthday to me. 

The performance was brilliant and of course I thought my very talented Granddaughter was the best one playing Malcolm. 

Because of my cough Daughter was a bit cross with me for not cancelling and they had the back car windows wide open for the hour long drive there and back. And now I've tested positive, having stayed clear for the nearly three years I thought I may be immune. So Friday feeling really rough and done nothing more than contact anyone we've been in contact with and cancelling what should be happening in the next week. Hubby now has the tickley throat. So not a birthday present I would have asked for, and really inconvenient timing...... but is there ever a good time? 

Stay very careful everyone.

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When It's Gone It's Gone.........

 
Did you ever watch Neighbours, the Australian soap? 

I did, possibly from it's very beginning in 1985. But I haven't watched it for many years. We all heard it was to be axed and when it was advertised as ending at the end of July I decided to watch all July episodes. We were out last Friday night when the finale was on, so I avoided all social media and watched it while eating my breakfast Saturday morning.  

     I thought the format was really clever, as the Ramsey Street history book got damaged so some of the younger cast were rebuilding it, they visited each resident asking for photos and written memories and they posted a request to Facebook which brought contacts from past residents, this easily gave opportunities for reliving bits of old storylines. There were also major preparations for a wedding in the street. The wedding took place in the final episode and lots of past characters returned as wedding guests. I enjoyed my trip down Aussie memory lane. 

We've decided what to do about the big hedge, it's going!

It will eventually be replaced as a raised rose bed, but there's a lot of work to do before then. Thankfully Hubby does love a big project and he's working in the shade until mid afternoon. 

The plums are now ending and figs have just started ripening, yummy! 

Actually, on the fruit subject, the apples on our tree all have this rot/disease/whatever at the core of each one. So I will once again spend ages peeling, chopping and freezing all the good bits of hundreds of apples rather than throw them all away. If anyone knows what it is and how to cure it then please let me know. 

And some very over ripe bananas soon became two banana and raisin loaves.

They won't last long. 
Now if you'll excuse me I'm off to make another cuppa as there's cake waiting for me. 

Have a good week.

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