A "busy" day, for a lockdown day. we know that Ian the window-cleaner will be looking through our bedroom window and bathroom window just after 9 am, so Lois and I have to be up and about quite early. Jeanette, the only genuinely Danish member of our U3A Danish group calls at 10 am to borrow my copy of the Danish crime novel the group is reading, and Lois and I have quite a nice chat with her on the doorstep - we've only seen her online since last March. And to top it all, after lunch, Mark the Gardener calls round to do a bit of work.
What madness! It's like Piccadilly Circus haha!
And I ought to know what Piccadilly Circus, London, is like - I was there only 13 years ago, with Tünde, my Hungarian penfriend.
flashback to 2008: Tünde, my Hungarian penfriend (dressed in white)
at Piccadilly Circus: note the statue of Eros and the
Lilywhites Building (the sports retailer) in the background
Happy days!
11:00 Yes, today here in this house too, it's just like Piccadilly Circus, and I feel something stirring inside me, as if to acknowledge that our quiet life, as it's been for the last 15 months, is not going to last for ever now.
We're hoping to see our daughter Alison and her family, and explore their new house, down in Hampshire at the weekend - I'll have to take my laptop with me, so I can join in the zoom meeting of Lynda's U3A Middle English group.
16:00 Lois and I have a cup of tea on the sofa and I look at my smartphone. People are concerned about the so-called Indian variant of the coronavirus, although three quarters of the UK population have now been vaccinated, and the vaccines are effective against the virus. The result is that it is much less likely to do much damage in terms of deaths and hospital admissions. There don't seem to be any cases in our area either, which is a bit of a relief also.
16:30 We go round to our near-neighbour Frances's house to water her garden. Luckily it's been drizzling a bit in the last hour or so, as per the weather forecast, and this reduces the enormity of this daily chore, which is nice.
Lois waters in Frances's greenhouse - note the slightly damp pathways
While Lois is busy, mostly in the greenhouse, I collect Frances's recycling boxes and put them out for tomorrow morning's kerbside collection.
We've been watching the BBC's "Springwatch" series about UK wildlife this week and last, so when I catch sight of a little frog in the outside drain to Frances's kitchen sink, I'm inspired to try and take a photo. But the frog is a bit shy, and doesn't want to be interviewed, so I don't think I'll be sending the photo into the programme - rejection always hurts a bit, doesn't it. Oh dear!
the little frog in the drain - how cute it is haha!
20:00 Lois disappears into the dining-room to take part in her sect's weekly Bible Class on zoom. This is my chance to watch a programme she doesn't like, episode 7 of the Danish crime series "The Killing".
I feel I'm fighting a losing battle with this series. Lois doesn't like it, so I have to watch the episodes during her sect's zoom sessions. But it's a mammoth series - 20 episodes! My god! And this week Lois's Monday and Tuesday zooms were cancelled because it's half-term week. I feel like I'm getting further and further behind.
Also I have to keep pausing the recording, either to write a few brief notes, or to try and remember what's happened in previous episodes, or try to identify a character I've forgotten about - that sort of thing. Oh dear!
Episode 20 - the final one - is beginning to look a very long way away now, to put it mildly.
21:00 Lois emerges from her zoom session and we watch an old episode of "Yes, Minister".
In this episode, the hero, Jim Hacker, Minister for Administrative Affairs, finds out that earlier in his career when he was a humble opposition politician, he was once regarded as a security risk and his phone and house were bugged by the security services.
It's hard to imagine Jim being a risk to anybody, least of all to his long-suffering wife Anna. The couple discuss what might have been overheard between them, however.
Tremendous fun !!!!
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzzz!!!!
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