Really quite cold today, even the Hardy Vin put his electric blanket on the bed last night for a short while to warm up. Very very blowy overnight as it was all day yesterday.
Now to add to the woes there is news of another local lockdown, this time in leicester, where everything has been closed for at least two weeks. Seems to be due to overcrowding and lack of social distancing. I wonder how long it will be till there is one n liverpool?
You only had to look at the papers this weekend after the hot weather and all of the people sunbathing together on the sun all crowded together.
Vin has been busy this morning, getting the recycling bin organised for emptying tomorrow, did the cat litter, made a batch of yogurt, the EasyYl one which is lovely. Finally finishing the plant at the front with a top layer. He will be ready for his morning coffee today.
Jessie has spent the day in the warm today, as she usually does, in the heat she finds a cool spot, and in the cold she usually finds a nice warm heater somewhere!
Anywhere warm this morning?
What a change! complete turn around with the weather. From the sun packed beaches of last week to cold very blowy almost March like weather. What a country! You just never know what is round the corner. Some quite bad rain storms too,
We have a week off this week, we aren't seeing the podiatary man till next Monday so are footloose and fancy free ths week, so to speak. Trouble is with the dreaded Lockdown measures in place, although they are being lifted slowly it does make you nervous about going out to places. Like our little trips to Costa every so often or our outings to Dobbies. Since you cannot really browse, or get your free coffees there is no point in going really. We shall have to have a look online to see what is available to spend our voucher on. Get something we want I'm sure.
Jessie is lying around the house somewhere, Vin is in the front garden planting his new Clematis which he got on Saturday from the garden Centre over the way. Nothing seems to flourish in the spot near the front door, we shall have to see what this one does. At least it isn't raining at the moment, just windy.
Just making sure you are doing it right!
Phew ndeed, certainly wrmed up over the ast few days. Yesterday was very warm and today loks the same. Horrendous pictures of crowds on the beaches no sign of social distancing or of masks, and packed in like sardines. No toilets open either! Yuk!.
Today Thursday the podiatry man came to call, we had to cancel the appointment on Monday because I was under the weather so to seak. It was a blockage which I have had in the past, and which knocks you ut till it "blows!" then it takes a bit to get over. Getting there now though.
Vin had to get a form signed which he usually gets done by a friend from down the road, so he rang them up yesterday, and the mystery of the crashed car ws solved. It was them!! He had come out of his drive and gone sharp right into somebody's front wall and into their front window. Took them off to hospital, where he stayed for a few days but they are both ok now thank goodness. Car is a write off which is a shame it was a good car.
Also found out that our next door neighbour but one is in hospital, bowel cancer apparently, hope he doesn't end up with a stoma like me. Good luck to him. Hope he recovers well.
Jessie has been looking for coolish spots around the house. She doesn't go out it is too hot, but at the moment sits in the hall in a shaft of sunlight till the door bell went of course then she runs off . She has a couple of little spots where she feels safe, one is under Jane's bed, a favourite, and the other is behind the door in the front room where she can hide away. Bless her, I have no idea why she runs off, just a timid cat I suppose. She will come out later.
I've come out for my food now!!
Not really a day, more of a morning really. I had to have a blood test done at Aintree hospital about the Aranesp injections. I get one done every so often to check levels. It was due this week so we went yesterday morning. What a difference from the ast time we were there! Very quiet, the nly people we saw were hospital staff, very few others, since the clinics are obviously not up and running properly yet. Vin dropped me off at the front of Elective care and I waited while he parked the car, then we went up to get it done. We had our masks on like we are supposed to, and there was hand gel at the entrance anyway.and boxes of masks if anyone wants one. Must say they are very uncomfortable, especially if you have glasses on, because it steams them up.
Jane says the new rule in her hospital is for everyone to wear one all the time, and it's making everyone grumpy now. Formerly they only had to wear one when dealing with a patient now it is all the time. Sign of the times!
After the blood test was done it was not off to the Costa as we would have done, but along the road home again. Our Homebase in Formby is closing down, and we needed a blacout blind for the middle room, so we carried along the by-pass to there. Just beginning to rain and the queue outside was moderate, so Vin went off to join that. Good timing because it started to teem quite heavivy but he was undercover. He came back later with one at 10% off so that was a help. Job done.
Home for coffee, and lo and behold there was another letter on the map, guess what for? Another blood test, for another department. What a pain, so the whole procedure will have to be repeated in a few weeks.!
Jessie hadn't moved much, Vin leaves the radio on for her so that she has some noise around, but I think she was asleep in the front room on the footstool and couldn't care less where we were!
Look at me ready for tickling my belly!
Wednesday again, seem to come round with monotonous regularity!
Vin has taken himself off to Tesco to do the weekly shopping. This he does very well because what he gets lasts the week just about. He has a regular list and then keeps an eye out for anything suitable for us to eat. Mostly we eat different things anyway becaus of the things that don't suit me, so he will for examle have a chilli or a curry while I have a bit of flan and a croquette. Suits us both then.
It seems to be quite humid today as it has been for the last few days really, we have been forecaast storms but nothing really materialised just looked like it.
He has just rung up to say he is on his way back, there was noqueue and nothing at the check out either so he got round quickly. We are waiting for a parcel to be delivered this morning of some fruits for cheese that were ordered on Monday. We got an email to say it would arrive yesterday but it wasn't actually on the delivery van till today. Doesn't matter, it is a good delivery rate anyway.
Jessie is downstairs, sleeping on her blanket after her breakfast. So tiring being a cat! Jane rang up last night for a chat on her way to work, a night duty, and one of the things she said was that she had seen that "Bob" the cat had died. That is a real shame, it was a beautiful ginger cat who attached himself to a homeless man and would follow him everywhere, even on buses. There were a coup;e of novels written about it, and a lovely film too which we really enjoyed. R.I.P. little Bob.
Jane and her mate! What a lovely pair they are.
Goodness knows what the weather is ging to do today. The weather forecasts were quite undecided really yesterday, but mostly they said it was going to be scattered sunshine and rain showers,
Very little going n today, Vin put an order in for somemore fruits for cheese yesterday. We had a look online at Amazon but they were to come from a firm in Hawkshead and you didn't get free P&P so in the end he decided to go with the Tracklements. He got an eail quite quickly to say they would be delivered tomorrow! which is today! so he is awaiting another email to say when they will arrive. That's good gong.
All the small shops on the High Streets were open for business yesterday and the papers this morning showing the differences between them Big queues at Primark and at the Nike shop in London. Not a lot of signs of social distancing. Funny as I amtyping this they are playing Manic Monday on the radio!! There's a coincidence.
Jessie was having a great time this morning chasing Vin's foot which was hanging out of the bed as it often does for some reason. She was really nibbling at it he said, he told her to stop it but she took no notice. Too early I suppose. Anyway she is now fed and watered and is now asleep on the blanket downstairs.
What me? I am little Miss Innocent!
Are we supporting the High Street? I think not really, cannot see us going to the high street any time soon. There was an item on The Cheshire Oaks this morning, showing cars waiting in a long queue to go inside. But...they had lost the key to the entry gate which didn't help really. So lovely empty car parks but no-one could get into them. Probably solved it by now though!
My podiatry man came this morning at about half past ten a bit later than normal but it doesn't matter because we aint going anywhere. Feet are doing fine, and hehopes to get me to every two weeks soon, which is a leap forward.
Vin always has a bit of a vacuum around before he comes in so that was a signal for her ladyship to disappear upstairs, think she is now under the bed in Jane's room, which is her safe spot. When she first came here and Vin let her out of the cat carrier, she miaowed very loudly a lot and ran off upstairs to hide under her bed only coming out when she was hungry. That is the pattern since really, if she hears the front door bell off she goes up the stairs.
Hooray! We are back again!
