Month: April 2020

(Tuesday, 28 April 2020) Today was my Mum’s actual birthday, so the day started with posting yesterday’s update which, along with some messages and a bit of facetime, served as a birthday card. I had […]

(Monday, 27 April 2020) Today was a day of many parts, both physically and emotionally. The day started with a fairly heavy discussion on the subject of re-opening. Not that we have any concrete information […]

(Sunday, 26 April 2020) We noticed in the last day or so that Jack’s side effects to the medication have subsided substantially and there was far less urgency attached to getting up in the morning […]

(Friday, 24 April 2020 and Saturday, 25 April 2020) Now that the trees in the forest around us have all come out, the mountainsides are the most striking shades of the lime green of the […]

(Thursday, 23 April 2020) I have become painfully aware that I get some lovely comments and replies to my daily inane wafflings and some of them remain unacknowledged, despite my best efforts. I just wanted […]

(Wednesday, 22 April 2020) Today, I woke up in my own bed, next to my husband and with two happy and contended pups in their own beds – all in the same room. What a […]

(Tuesday, 21 April 2020) It turns out that writing an update and emptying the mind of noise is no guarantee of a decent night’s sleep. So much for that theory then! Still awake at 2.30am […]

(Monday, 20 April 2020) Yes, that’s right – Monday! With yesterday’s mammoth post for the weekend under my belt, I am finally writing this update on the day it actually happened, rather than filling my […]

(Saturday, 18 April 2020 and Sunday, 19 April 2020) Having failed to catch up with myself this week, I’ve decided to combine the weekend into one post. Not just that, but there were large parts […]

(Friday, 17 April 2020) After the… cough… excesses… of last night, we both awoke pretty early and bushy tailed, which is quite impressive under the circumstances. Whilst you might think that the opposite would happen, […]