Do you remember the covid lockdown daddy? The nights we had Zoom night quizzes with the family? Where The Mummy, A cowboy, Indiana Jones, Johnny Depp, Charlie Chaplin and Princess Leia amongst others battled for a single Cadbury's cream egg! Do you remember those days daddy? Do you remember?
Yesterday I planted out deep red geraniums in pots, Spanish style,on the kitchen wall The winds increased to gales this morning and I found all of the pots hidden safely in the shelter of the front garden stone wall, saved by a kind passerby. I was going to use the word nice here rather than kind to describe the Good Samaritan but in my considered opinion many nice people are not kind. Kindness is an action Painfully nice people just use words I made avacado on sour bread toast with eggs for brunch Sorted out cupboards and drawers I took Dorothy and Mary for a walk out of the village to the East, past Chic Eleanor's. LargeWhite washed home By chance she saw me passing and invited me onto the patio with a swirl of her scarf in the wind " Darling John, do have a socially distant double shot coffee and we 'll brave the storm together!!" I sat on her windswept patio as she made coffee from scratch "Forgive me, I look a right sight!" Eleanor gasped " I have my lockdown tat on" This made me laugh as Eleanor would look good wearing a bin bag We chatted for a while before the dogs got bored and needed to move on
I made chicken salad for lunch and prepared chicken noodles for my lunch tomorrow at work. For the first couple of months of lockdown the Hospice kindly made all of their staff a free lunch, which was incredibly kind. Now, realistically that kindness cannot be sustained so it's back to preparing my own..... Not a bad thing
This afternoon I'm making a hat with a sign on it The sign reads Happy Birthday Chris written backwards I'm attending a Zoom family quiz and it's my nephew's birthday !
I ve just popped into Church to leave my donation for bell ringing , I re positioned a painted stone I found on my wall yesterday...it's a pass it forward good wishes stone left by a local child and videod the laburnam , which shines golden in the sun.
Affable despot Jason has added to his huge collection of morale boosting videos on the Street warden's social group...I'm watching them now as I juggle writing this and making soup
