Wednesday, October 08, 2008
8th Oct. A reaction to yesterday.
To exaggerate a little - nay, indeed I exaggerate a lot..........
I have the flu!
At least I have a reaction to the flu jab.
I don't feel 100% good.
And my arm aches.
But never mind - it must be better than real flu.
This morning we went to B &Q to order our carpet tiles - they will be a straw colour,
We got it done eventually.
We were along time in the car park talking to Paul and Dorothy Cooper. They were part of the athletics crowd over 20 years ago.
They, like us, centred our social life on where the boys would be competing next. It was a good time and we had lots of friends in that crowd.
Their boys are now past 40 and ours are getting ever closer to that age.
Once inside we were waylaid, once again by an athletics friend. We haven't seen Jean for quite a while. Like us, she has opted to do far less timekeeping. She has had her own battle with cancer and at the moment seems to be doing well, though beyond the "How are You's?" and the quick replies we didn't talk health.
I felt that with so many people of our age using B&Q on a Wednesday (10% discount day for the old folks) it would be nice to have a coffee shop there to make it a real social centre.
Anyway we checked that we liked the tiles we had chosen last week and went to order them.
"Sorry" she said "You'll have to come back later because my computer is not working. Though the computer upstairs might be alright."
So we queued upstairs and waited whilst a couple of nice older men ( B&Q have a policy of employing older experienced people), sorted everybody out.
So, the carpet tiles are now ordered.
We looked at wallpapers whilst we are there. Yes, there was one I would be happy to have.
The kitchen people rang to say they could start earlier than expected - November 3rd is now the date for chaos to get underway. No, we'll have to start before that as we empty all the cupboards and drawers and decide what to do with the contents - both in the short term and for ever. There must be a mass of stuff we don't really need.
This afternoon Bill went out to put some flowers on his parent's grave.
This view shows how the plot has become a family grave. The ashes of both Uncle Bill (Mum's brother) and Aunty Pink (Dad's sister) were interred in the plot.
You can see that it is now very close to the anniversary of Bill's Mum's death - 21 years ago.
The stone is quite small and once flowers have been placed you can't read a word about Bill's Dad.
This one shows the wording about Bill's Dad.
Oh dear - I shall get a telling off for having yet more graves! Jamie thought it was all a bit morbid. But memories are not morbid.
Then he went to see his Aunty Joyce - wife of Uncle Ned Brand.
I had good intentions - but was beginning to feel really tired. I decided to have a look and see how the Cradle of Persia was doing!
Mo understands!
Then Jamie came on for a "chat".
And I talked with Ashley who now has a date for coming to stay for a week or so in mid November.
I sold 5 out of 6 books on EBay this afternoon.
It is the Olympus camera that Bill listed that is commanding the interest. There have been 234 hits and there are 58 watchers. There have been lots of inquiries too. The bidding stands at over £26 - probably more than he had actually dared to hope for.
The best bit of the day actually came early. I accepted the challenge of dealing with the bag on my own and was successful.
I felt like shouting from the rooftops!
And the day has been good for weather. It has been a blue sky day with sunshine.
Oh how we hope that it will be the same for our week on the Isle of Wight - only 10 days to go now.
Right, I will certainly have an early night.
Goodnight,
I have the flu!
At least I have a reaction to the flu jab.
I don't feel 100% good.
And my arm aches.
But never mind - it must be better than real flu.
This morning we went to B &Q to order our carpet tiles - they will be a straw colour,
We got it done eventually.
We were along time in the car park talking to Paul and Dorothy Cooper. They were part of the athletics crowd over 20 years ago.
They, like us, centred our social life on where the boys would be competing next. It was a good time and we had lots of friends in that crowd.
Their boys are now past 40 and ours are getting ever closer to that age.
Once inside we were waylaid, once again by an athletics friend. We haven't seen Jean for quite a while. Like us, she has opted to do far less timekeeping. She has had her own battle with cancer and at the moment seems to be doing well, though beyond the "How are You's?" and the quick replies we didn't talk health.
I felt that with so many people of our age using B&Q on a Wednesday (10% discount day for the old folks) it would be nice to have a coffee shop there to make it a real social centre.
Anyway we checked that we liked the tiles we had chosen last week and went to order them.
"Sorry" she said "You'll have to come back later because my computer is not working. Though the computer upstairs might be alright."
So we queued upstairs and waited whilst a couple of nice older men ( B&Q have a policy of employing older experienced people), sorted everybody out.
So, the carpet tiles are now ordered.
We looked at wallpapers whilst we are there. Yes, there was one I would be happy to have.
The kitchen people rang to say they could start earlier than expected - November 3rd is now the date for chaos to get underway. No, we'll have to start before that as we empty all the cupboards and drawers and decide what to do with the contents - both in the short term and for ever. There must be a mass of stuff we don't really need.
This afternoon Bill went out to put some flowers on his parent's grave.
This view shows how the plot has become a family grave. The ashes of both Uncle Bill (Mum's brother) and Aunty Pink (Dad's sister) were interred in the plot.
You can see that it is now very close to the anniversary of Bill's Mum's death - 21 years ago.
The stone is quite small and once flowers have been placed you can't read a word about Bill's Dad.
This one shows the wording about Bill's Dad.
Oh dear - I shall get a telling off for having yet more graves! Jamie thought it was all a bit morbid. But memories are not morbid.
Then he went to see his Aunty Joyce - wife of Uncle Ned Brand.
I had good intentions - but was beginning to feel really tired. I decided to have a look and see how the Cradle of Persia was doing!
Mo understands!
Then Jamie came on for a "chat".
And I talked with Ashley who now has a date for coming to stay for a week or so in mid November.
I sold 5 out of 6 books on EBay this afternoon.
It is the Olympus camera that Bill listed that is commanding the interest. There have been 234 hits and there are 58 watchers. There have been lots of inquiries too. The bidding stands at over £26 - probably more than he had actually dared to hope for.
The best bit of the day actually came early. I accepted the challenge of dealing with the bag on my own and was successful.
I felt like shouting from the rooftops!
And the day has been good for weather. It has been a blue sky day with sunshine.
Oh how we hope that it will be the same for our week on the Isle of Wight - only 10 days to go now.
Right, I will certainly have an early night.
Goodnight,
