09:30 Lois and I speak briefly on whatsapp to Sarah, our daughter in Perth, Australia - it's not the regular weekend social call: this morning Sarah just needs our help to communicate with her UK bank, who are still sending correspondence to us, even though Sarah, plus husband Francis and 7-year-old twins Lily and Jessie, moved to Perth in 2015: what madness !!!!
The proper social call with Sarah on zoom will take place at 8:30 am our time tomorrow (Sunday) - 8:30 am is a bit early in the day from our point of view, but it makes sense for Sarah and the twins, because it's 4:30 pm there and not quite time to start getting the evening meal. It just means Lois and i can't stay in bed as long as we'd like to - the story of our lives!
10:30 Our delivery of groceries arrives from Budgens, the convenience store in the village, so Lois and I set to work to swab all the items down with disinfectant.
Yesterday I spoke to my sister Gill in Cambridge, who has devised a method which enables her to only swab down a proportion of her groceries. She lives with her husband Peter and daughter Lucy, who are both disabled, which means all the swabbing work devolves onto her, which is very time-consuming.
To save time Gill has set up two "quarantine" areas - one in the house and one out in the back yard, where she can store some of the grocery items for a few days, if suitable, until such time a she needs to use them - makes sense to me: what a great idea!
15:00 Tomorrow it's Mothers Day in the UK, and also in Ireland and Nigeria: but nowhere else - what madness! This kind of British awkwardness was partly what made the EU so pleased about Brexit, that's for sure!
I've already got my Mothers Day presents for Lois: three Alison Lurie books about adultery among academics: I hope it doesn't give her any ideas - oh dear!
This afternoon I creep into the dining-room to design my Mothers Day card for Lois on the computer. My theme will be eating-places high and low that we've eaten at over the years.
I've found two high places, the "C" Restaurant in Perth, Western Australia, in 2016, and the revolving sky-lounge at the Hotel New Otani in Tokyo in 1971 before we were married. The Perth experience was nearly 5 years ago, the Tokyo one almost exactly 50 years ago - cripes, how time flies !!!
The 'low' eating-place I've come up with is the Whiskers Coffee Stand at the local football field, a few days ago. It seems like a come-down after Perth and Tokyo, but it isn't really, as long as we are still having fun - that's the main thing, no doubt about that!
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