This week started with a fabulous connection
A very quick pop over to see Son&fiancé, just long enough to present swap and a garden cuppa.
Hubby agreed to theatre with me, online of course but still a big deal for Hubby. We always try to support Red Rose Chain for all the great community work they do. Alice was pure nonsense and fun, which is exactly what they were aiming for.
Of course my strongest connections are with our two children and it definitely works both ways. As I said we had a quick garden cuppa with Son and when we sat down fiancé had waiting for me a hot water bottle and blanket and it was so cosy. Knowing we'd be outside Christmas evening I quickly ordered some hot water bottles as soon as we got home. When they arrived there was two boxes as Son had ordered some for us too!
Flowers in a box arrived with the postman, the photo card inside was from Daughter, R, E & O. When I messaged Daughter with my thanks she told me it's a monthly subscription Christmas present 😍
Hubby loves being busy and like an excited elf he's getting ready for our different Christmas day. We won't see Son except on a video call but Daughter and family are coming over but not into the house. The plan is to have our dinners in our own homes then they will all come for a garden gathering evening. So far Hubby has twinkly lights up, gazebo up and well strapped to the ground and building to keep the worst of the weather off us but still very ventilated especially when we unzip the back as the fire pit will be just outside. I have pillows to go on all the seats and a mountain of blankets plus those hot water bottles and my small patio heater. So different to our usual but should be fun.
I know it's only Thursday but it's Christmas Eve so I'll post this week's now and wish you all a Very Merry Christmas And let's hope 2021 becomes a covid free year. Until it is stay safe, protect others and find ways of caring and being kind to each other.
5 comments:
i love your outside socialising space. No one here has done anything quite like that other than at the cafes and pubs (before Tier 4 shut them). Though the friend I see on Weds doesn't really do walking and it is getting so much colder that blankets and hot water bottles are going to have to be considered soon otherwise my visits will have to be much shorter! I have quite a walk from the car to her house (she lives on a road with no parking) so carting lots of warm things with me is not so easy. Need one of those granny baskets on wheels :-D.
Hope your Christmas Day went well.
If it gets any colder you may have to move your Wednesday friend to a video call for a few weeks. No point getting pneumonia!
Neither of us like video calls. We have done them but not very satisfactorily. But yes if it gets much colder then needs must. An outside shelter would have been better though. She looked at having a frame built that could be flexibly walled or roofed with canvas but decisions are not her strong point and other than ideas and quotes that was as far as the idea got.
Sometimes to make an outside space warm enough with sides and top you've actually made a room, so just as good to sit inside well spaced with doors and windows open! Agree though video calls just don't flow comfortably.
Ah - well that was my suggestion, not that she would let her house be used that way but I said we now don't use the dining room at all so we could meet in there with doors and windows open and that might be more comfortable. She'd have to travel to me for that which has other factors that make that difficult for her. She knows her anxieties are extreme but we all just have to try and work round them.
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