New Year woes and good things

 Christmas and the New Year feel like a long time ago now. We were meant to go to our elder daughter's for New Year's Day but the day before, small grandson had turned all spotty with chicken pox. He has now kindly passed this along to his dad who had escaped it as a child. Poor man! Our son's family has two members down with Covid but they are now on the road to recovery. The other family members seem to be escaping. Isn't it hard when you have a house full of people and bedrooms shared and then some go down with Covid. My son is sleeping on the bed settee which is not built for tall people like him.

Not to be left out of the sympathy stakes, I have had a heavy cold, my husband has had a funny bug and I have hurt my knee somehow and am hobbling around with a borrowed stick and feeling like a very old lady. What a family! I am discovering that it is not easy to walk around a supermarket with a stick because it keeps slipping on the tiled floors. I keep having to try to make the stick land on the joints between the tiles otherwise it doesn't provide any support at all. I have been trying not to walk too far and to rest my knee but I have had to go to a supermarket three times this year. One time, I called into Asda in the evening on the way to somewhere else and happened to be there when they brought out a trolley full of final reductions. Everything was reduced to 10p or 20p and I definitely came out of the shop with a smile on my face and a bag full of bread, broccoli, sausages, ham and yoghurts. And I spent a whopping £1.30 too : ) Fortunately there was just enough space in the freezer to put some of it away for the following week. It certainly cut the housekeeping bill for a couple of weeks.