Bit of a lazier start to the day but it’s so nice that the wind has dropped. The silence is so lovely, the birds are twittering away and there’s only a few cars passing out the front. In between coffees we got the BBQ back up into place. Despite my best efforts at cleaning it still works!!
We took a wee family trip to the greenhouse too… check us…. and found that now that it actually retains heat due to re-glassing x number of days ago, things are starting to grow!
So it’s only 10.45am but I can sense we are both knackered and not really wanting to do much at all today.
Been reading up on Sky News and they say that today sees the lowest weekday rise in hospital deaths in 3 weeks. Think they are clutching at straws to report anything good if I’m honest. another 616 deaths have been recorded in UK hospitals. There was suggestion this morning that the death toll could be as much as 41% higher when they take non hospital related deaths into account. I’m not surprised and it needs to be done soon. Nicola Sturgeon is suggesting social distancing measures into next year. We watch tv now and remember what it was like when we used to be able to be in crowds, hug anyone we wanted (within reason!) and never have any concern of passing anything between us. I can’t imagine how people with OCD would be dealing with this. Constantly worrying about the virus passing from one person to another, being left on surfaces etc etc…. it’s so strange to us and yet becoming the new normal. We are actually living through this, being told to stay at home and having to be 2m apart if we meet anyone. We’ve been so lucky with the weather as it’s been glorious though cold in the shade. It rained for the first 3 months of 2020, can you imagine what lockdown would be like with torrential rain??!? I’m sure we might have that at some time too…. jeez I’m a little ray of sunshine today eh?!
Claire got gel nail polish and the ultra violet machine delivered yesterday and let me borrow it! Properly painted toes for the first time in a good few weeks when the last professionally applied gel nail polish grew off! they’re not the best but it was my first time. Everyone is having to find different ways of doing things just now. Also finding that many things don’t matter but pretty toes are nice 😁
So as you can tell I’m now sitting with my feet up on my granny’s recliner chair. I’ve spent a lot of my time off sick here as it’s so nice to relax in and it reminds me of my Gran 💜
It’s now 9.15pm and I wonder where the rest of the day went! Helped the Gateside Inn do their deliveries tonight and was so lovely to see neighbours (at a socially acceptable distance of course) but some that I’ve not seen for ages! Food is only for a lucky few in the village as she can only do a certain number in an evening without feeding folk at 9pm!!! We were last but so worth the wait.
I haven’t done my 15k steps today but was on my feet most of the day… so up about 9k just popped out to catch the sunset as it was stunning. A lovely end to another lovely day although sadly still in lockdown.
Overland and Borders 