Lois slept badly last night, so I get up and make the tea, and I also swab down the 5 pints of milk on the doorstep, even though it's strictly speaking her turn - and it's fair enough - she's offered to do tomorrow and Monday in recompense, even though I'm going to be the mysterious "Person 1" next week.
What trivialities we focus on - but that's what happens when you get to our age haha!!
Person 1 | Person 2 | |
Week 1 Sunday | Brings teas up to bed | |
Week 1 Monday | Brings teas up to bed | |
Week 1 Tuesday | Takes milk in and disinfects bottles Brings teas up to bed | Cleans shower after we’ve showered |
Week 1 Wednesday | Brings teas up to bed | |
Week 1 Thursday | Takes milk in and disinfects bottles Brings teas up to bed Cleans shower after we’ve showered | |
Week 1 Friday | Brings teas up to bed | |
Week 1 Saturday | Takes milk in and disinfects bottles Brings teas up to bed | Cleans shower after we’ve showered |
Week 2 Sunday…etc | Brings teas up to bed |
Today is going to be a day of deliveries - first, the local convenience store will be delivering our groceries for next week. Later we've got the flowers and box of chocolates I've ordered for Lois for tomorrow, Valentine's Day. And finally also the Cookshop meal we've ordered for tomorrow's lunch. What a bonanza!
our Cookshop meal: the tartlets are the starter, so we'll have those first -
call us stick-in-the-mud traditionalists if you like haha!!
I see a video on the influential American website Onion News, and I see that I am definitely "on trend" with my decision to get flowers for Lois: something on those lines is Onion News's number one suggestion this year, which is nice!
All my cards to Lois last year were lockdown-themed, so I've promised to do something different for tomorrow. And after all, how many lockdown jokes are there???? [about 183 - Ed]
Steve, our American brother-in-law, has the best lockdown jokes, and he's sent us several. Here's one of them.....
...and there's more where that came from!!!!
I finally decide to base my card on the theme of last night's TV programme about the luxurious Jade Mountain hotel in St Lucia in the Caribbean, where all the bedrooms have no outer walls and are open to ocean views. I promise we'll spend a few nights there just as soon as we've saved up the money for it - it's a bargain at only £2700 per night. Yikes!
flashback to last night: pictures of the fabulous Jade Mountain Hotel in St Lucia,
and a typical room open to the elements with your own fitted mosquito net:
a bargain at only £2700 per night - yikes!!!
20:00 We watch a bit of TV, a documentary about the background story to Stonehenge, presented by Alice Roberts.
A fascinating programme, proving that Stonehenge's smaller bluestones had a previous life as a stone circle of their own, sited in south-west Wales, in the Presili Hills of Pembrokeshire, where the stone was originally quarried.
Prof. Mike Parker Pearson, over the course of several years' work, has found the exact place where the stones were quarried, and the exact place where they stood as a complete circle, a few hundred years before they were removed and transported 140 miles, by land and not by sea as originally thought, to the site of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, where they formed a new monument with a collection of much larger sarsen stones, but with the identical outer circle diameter to that of the original circle. Both new and old circles were aligned to the position of the sun at the summer solstice of the time.
The most extraordinary thing to Lois and me is, that it was the chance discovery of the charred remains of a prehistoric quarryman's lunch - hazelnut shells - which led to the full story being revealed. The nutshells were found to be carbon-dateable to about 3,300 BC, a full 400 years before Stonehenge was built. Hence the new interpretation that these bluestones were not originally destined for Stonehenge.
What an amazing world we live in !!!!!
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzzzzz!!!!
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