Sick of Being Sick......

 
Not the best start to the week, feeling as rough as I did it was inevitable that Saturday morning my second test was positive. 

Thank goodness Hubby was feeling fine now and happy to take on all chores including online shopping twice and organising meals, serving us both downstairs but to keep E isolated he was taking all her's upstairs and announcing it was there for her to leave her room to collect when Hubby had left. He's also changed our bed and done two lots of laundry.... he's certainly our super hero. 

I've kept check on our friendsL&K that unwittingly passed the virus to us and I've checked on neighboursT&S who Hubby unwittingly passed it onto at last week's coffee morning. 

I've since heard of others that have recently had colds so bad it probably had been covid they just hadn't tested. 

I'd virtually slept away a couple of days, realising after a tv programme had finished that I'd missed a large chunk and Hubby had to explain the outcome. When I was awake I was contacting people to cancel and rearrange our social lives. NeighbourA next door, offered to host coffee morning on Monday and I let my old work team know that we would miss our lunch meetup on Tuesday, a double blow as I would normally organise them around spring time but that was when I'd had surgery again so we'd not met since our previous Christmas gathering. Hubby also cancelled his Thursday arrangement and we decided with Son that next Saturday night still be too soon. 

By the end of the week another household in our Close reported two out of the four of them now have covid. That couldn't have come from us so it seems to be everywhere. 

Friday morning Hubby did another test and it was negative, yippee. 

I then did another test and mine was negative too, yippee. We were so relieved and when E woke and messaged Hubby for breakfast he couldn't wait to pass on the good news and the hope she could now leave her prison bedroom at last. She asked for a test kit and we were devastated when a short while later she said it was positive. How could we not have kept her safe! 

For now I'm grumpy as this cough is driving me mad and interrupting my sleep. Also heard today that R's bad cold has left her with a dreadful cough too. I feel really bad for E who hasn't seen another human in person for over a week and I'm sorry to you for being grumpy. Seems my immediate world is sick and all I can do is hope it gets better. So if you are sick of this grumpy old woman maybe stop reading, if you can stay hopeful too i'll see you back here next week.

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Fight or Flight....

 
We always have a lot of wildlife in our garden, until you want to take photos of them then they all disappear. 

This pyracantha bush is usually weighed down with at least 5 or more pigeons on a constant buffet, but this time just two. 

And we did get a rare visit from a Jay who seems to enjoy digging up what the squirrels have buried. 

Hubby has had a rotten cold all week, having gone to so much trouble to not pass on germs friendsL&M didn't come out with us last Friday but turned out friendK brought his gems which he didn't know he had and that turned out to be covid. I did lots more than my share and especially all for E as catching covid would make her really really unwell. By the end of the week Hubby was feeling so much better and felt he was past the contagious stage so went on a hunt for covid test kits which our local chemist didn't have. 

On Monday my nails appointment was due, I've been in the technicianM's diary for the first Monday of every month for years but this month was another hiccup and M contacted me to change Monday to Tuesday and then changed it again from Tuesday to Wednesday then just as we were about to leave home she messaged to change 11:30 to 11:45 gggrrrrr

Thursday evening I had an irritating cough, had a horrid night with shivers, pains and lots of coughing and Friday morning felt really unwell so Hubby phoned round and found a chemist with test kits. Yes Hubby tested positive but with a very feint line so it was obviously on its way out. However my test was totally negative but we still went into sanitiser mode, E took herself back upstairs and she phoned her mum to do a bit of shopping for her. We cancelled going to visit Son on Sunday and cancelled all the neighbours coming here on Monday. 

And that is definitely all the energy I have for writing this, so let's hope I can be a bit more entertaining for you next week.

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Ticking Along......

 
While I keep my eyes open for the perfect replacement clock I've brought this one down from my craft room to hang on the dining room wall. 

The one that smashed was really pretty, this one isn't pretty it's practical. 

I praised that one for surviving since Daughter was a young teenager whereas this one is even older, I earned an award while I was doing party plan direct sales, that was back in the mid 1980s. 

I have another working clock face in the craft room waiting for a frame of some sort and I nearly got all creative and gathered everything needed to make a frame with old wine corks (quite suitable for a dinning room I thought)  although the plan in my head wasn't so easy to put into practice so I put all the stuff away and this clock will do for now. 

Saturday Hubby finally found time to take his new car out for a drive.  He needed to visit friendG's to do some computer fixing and that's about 50 miles each way. He enjoyed the drive and succeeded with the computer fix so a win win. 

One of our neighbours didn't regularly join us for coffee morning as he worked in our local Asda but he loved chatting to the neighbours when we shopped and decided to come up when he had to stay home recovering from a serious op. Now he is back at work but a slightly shorter shift has made him get straight home and rush up the close to join us for the second half of coffee morning. I felt honoured he enjoyed it that much to make the effort. 

Tuesday was a Doggy day care day. Daughter organised us as she was leaving home at 7am and apparently M wouldn't have the time to drop the dog here so Hubby said he would pick up the dog at 9:15am as that was the time to take R to work. Then it got confusing as M and D arrived at this house while Hubby was at theirs, cos M was looking for some cables and connectors that Hubby had found so came to collect them even though he didn't really have the time for the detour. Thankfully people, dog and electricals ended up where they needed to be. 

Out Wednesday evening as usual. FriendT had a particularly stressful evening as she had tried to get out of their car too soon and while protecting her and not causing an accident himself FriendF grabbed her hands from the seat belt and FriendT remained really angry with him for the whole evening. Making things even more stressful was friendM needing to bring her dog to the pub as he had been left alone a lot during the day. 

Thursday wasn't a good day for me, I managed to have four migraine headaches one after the other but cleared enough to still manage our usual online quiz and E joined us too. It didn't feel like I had triggered it off but I'm staying on restricted screen time just in case. 

Friday Daughter came over with a cool bag full of home made vegan batch cooked dinners for E. Good timing as one dinner stayed out of the freezer as Hubby and I are out again to meet friends at a Turkish Restaurant friendK booked. It should have been six of us but friendsL&M had to cancel as they both have colds so just us with friendsL&K. The restaurant is in Witham in Essex and our first house was in Silver End a little village just outside Witham so as we arrived so much earlier than arranged we parked then walked up and down the high street for old times sake (we moved to Ipswich and this house 43 years ago!) The food was good and the service excellent just a shame it was so incredibly noisy in there I had trouble hearing what was said.  

Now suddenly it's October and room lights and closing curtains are happening early evening, the year is whizzing by. Catch me on the way past next week eh? 

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