A quiet life

Not a lot has happened since my last post. We have just quietly (for the most part) pottered through various jobs. Both of us have read quite a few books. My husband has been out in the garden using his chainsaw and his maul to cut up some wood. We still want the woodburner on in the evenings for a while. Our living room only gets the sun for about 45 minutes in late afternoon so we need the woodburner on to make it warm enough to sit in that room if we want the tv on. Using his chainsaw is noisy which is why we have only been quiet for the most part. He just did a bit, came and sat down for a while and then went and did another bit etc. We are much better now but still not really got our energy back.

Our daughter is still doing our shopping for us. It is so good of her because I don't think I could cope yet with queuing in a car park for ages and then walking around a shop when it was my turn to go in. We have some stuff in the freezer so we are only asking her to get some fresh stuff. She is now doing the shopping for her family, for us, her mother-in-law, another relative nearby and three elderly neighbours. That is seven households. Bless her!

We have lots of seeds sown and are waiting to see what comes up. All the seeds are from past years so the germination rate may not be as good as we would like. We are hopeful that by the time they need planted out (assuming we get something to plant out) then we will have enough energy to go to the allotment. The trouble is that the plot may have rather a lot of weed on it which we will have to clear before we can plant anything. I am starting to feel tired again just thinking about it : )

Stay healthy!

After Easter

So Easter has been and gone. I got my children to buy Easter eggs for their offspring and transferred the money to them online. I had little messages from them all to say thank you for the chocolate eggs. I daresay the chocolate eggs are no more than a distant memory now : )

It was my little grandson's second birthday this week. We had planned originally to have a family get-together today in honour of his birthday but that is not happening. So we had a family Skype call on the morning of his birthday instead. That was fun and even the young birthday boy himself seemed to enjoy it. After the Skype call, he helped his mum bake a birthday cake and then ice it when it was cool. His dad took a video of my grandson blowing out his two little candles and then, totally unprompted, singing happy birthday to himself. He had heard this song only a very few times but we were so delighted. It was so very cute. Definitely a proud gran here! Naturally I am totally unbiased - not!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter to everybody!

Normally on Maundy Thursday, all the Baptist churches in our area get together and have a service in the evening. We hold the service at one church one year and go around the other churches in turn. Then on Good Friday morning, we hold a service at our church for all the churches of any Christian denomination and the churches takes turns in leading the service. Then we have a procession of witness up the main road to the next church up the road and hold another short service in the square outside that church. On Good Friday evening we have a service at our church just for our congregation. On Easter Sunday, we have an early morning service followed by breakfast (eggs as they symbolise new life) and then a celebration service at the normal time.

This year we had a short service on YouTube on Good Friday evening and again this morning for Easter Sunday. It almost doesn't feel like Easter because it is so very, very different because of the lockdown.

Grim news this morning - fractionally under 10,000 people dead in Britain and over 102,000 worldwide from this coronavirus. Surely these figures will make people realise that they must stay home.

Update

We are much better now. The virus has gone but we are just a bit wobbly and totally devoid of energy. And the brain is full of mush. Our son and daughter that live fairly close have been very good and brought us shopping. And our daughter has brought us round some meals as well which was lovely as, being totally without energy, getting up and cooking was a Chore.