#WDIIA - Monday 15th June 2020

#WDIIA - it's the day we bought a house!  Well we've started the ball rolling.  We saw the house on Saturday, liked it, put an offer in earlier today and by the end of the day it had been accepted. 

Now the fun begins.  Lots of paperwork to be completed, surveyors and solicitors to instruct and removal men to find.

Oh and just the small task of packing up the belongings etc we've accumulated over the last 20+ years.

Whose idea was this?  Oh yeah, it was mine.  What was I thinking lol.

#WDIIA - What day is it anyway? was started by Linda - the host of #SoCS and One Liner Wednesday. You can find her posts here.

#WDIIA - Sunday 24/5/20

Well my Fitbit tells me it's Sunday so it must be so.  Am I the only one losing track of the days here?  As as for the actual date - well thankfully my Fitbit tells me that too!

Today has been a lazy day.  We did get out for a walk but I've spent most of the day looking at houses for sale on my laptop.  We're still waiting to hear that our chain is definitely still intact so it's hard to get too excited yet.  I have bookmarked a few houses that look promising but I'm not sure how the viewing process is going to work.  

Some agents seem to be saying they'll be doing virtual viewings - hopefully that would be like a video call so that you could direct them on what you want to see rather than the agent not showing you things they don't want you to see.  Others seem to be putting steps in place so that one of us could go and view the property and be socially distanced and safe. It's all a bit nerve wracking.

I've sent the house details to Hubby so we could end up viewing none of them if he doesn't like them.  It's been fun looking at them all though and working through all the estate agent's jargon and trying to visualise what a wrong might look like without the various decorating disasters - or with furniture in if the place is empty.

Although it's likely to be difficult to find and purchase a house at this time at least it would give me a sense of purpose.  I think that's what I'm finding hard at the moment.  Not knowing whether we're staying or going makes it hard to focus on doing much at home.  I'm not always the most patient of people!

But another day is almost over.  That must be one day closer to a successful treatment or vaccine right?  Let's hope so.  

Apparently it's a Bank Holiday tomorrow.  Who knew?  Well I do now because they e-mailed today to tell me our HelloFresh box will be delayed until Tuesday.  Because they notified me so late they've also given me a £10 credit.  Not going to complain about that!  Better go and get something out of the freezer for tomorrow's dinner before I forget.

#WDIIA - Monday 4/5/20

It's Monday, I think.  Yes it is - my Fitbit tells me so.

Having completed the A-Z Challenge in April I'm determined to keep blogging regularly but some days that's easier than others.

Today has been a good day.  I got up determined to get moving earlier and set myself some goals - for the week in terms of steps etc and for today as in a To Do list.  I had a few bad days last week thanks to this ongoing Lockdown but I really have nothing to complain about compared to some people so I'm trying to be positive.

I managed to do most of the things on the list.  I got the boring chores bit done first - getting dressed everyday means that washing still has to be done!  Then I managed some exercise courtesy of the Wii.  My yoga moves are not very impressive but as least I tried.

I spent an hour sorting out some photos - we have loads just stashed together in a couple of boxes so I'm trying to sort them and put them into albums and then discard the rejects.  Then I want to get some of our digital ones printed.  It's lovely having them all in one place on the PC but when do we look at them?  Also I did a photobook of our youngest son's wedding and have never got around to doing the same for our other son and our daughter.  And of course now I can't claim to not have the time.

I just need the concentration.  Something that's been lacking during these strange times!

I also need to do a reflection post for the A-Z Challenge and I'm way behind in responding to comments.  Where does the day go?  I mean it's gone - it's now 21.48 here as I'm typing but I did also manage to finish an online shop that will come tomorrow.  

I also watched some TV and Hubby and I went our for our daily walk.

Our youngest son video called us too so that was nice.  Grandson Rory is funny on the phone.  He will say things but then he sometimes just stares at the phone as if he's trying to work out how Nanny and Grandpa can be inside the phone!  But it helps to see him and the others.

And now I should be thinking about bed.  I didn't sleep very well last night.  I had a coughing fit about 12.45 and lay awake for ages thinking dark thoughts as you can imagine.  But I was fine when I woke up.  No cough, no high temperature.  I'm fine!  And so I reported on the app that's tracking people's symptoms that I was fine.  My nephew's wife reported she had a sore throat one day last week and received a testing kit for Covid-19 through the post!  She is also fine.   I've saved them an unnecessary test.  Although as their count of daily tests carried out includes any that have been mailed out, rather than those that have been sent back, the Government would probably have preferred me to declare my coughing fit so they could up their number!

I do not want to be a statistic! 

#WDIIA - What day is it anyway? was started by Linda - the host of #SoCS and One Liner Wednesday. You can find her post here.

 

#WDIIA - Tuesday 31/3/20

Linda (the host of #SoCS and One Liner Wednesday) has been doing posts entitled "What Day is it Anyway" during these strange times. (Click on the link for her site to see more.)

Today it is Tuesday. (Even though it feels like Sunday, every day is beginning to feel like Sunday.)

It's been a really quiet day. I did get some washing done. We did go for a walk. I did manage to finish this:



1000 pieces

And of course we chatted online with Grandson Nathan who's come from this:


Birthday 2017

To this!  He's 3 today!



He's come such a long way and done so well. He's happy and chatty and we love him to bits. I will admit to having a little melt down this morning because of course we're all separated at the moment. I just so wanted to be able to give him a big hug. But of course we chatted online. Thank goodness for social media. This snap was taken a couple of weeks ago. I'm sure there will be birthday snaps later.

So another day is almost done. I'm off now to polish my first A-Z post for tomorrow.

Yes it's that time of the year again. With all this time on our hands I shouldn't have any excuse for lates posts! For anyone who doesn't know what the A-Z challenge is you can go here to find out all about it. Join in. It's fun. Got anything better to do?

#WDIIA - Monday 30/3/20

Linda (the host of #SoCS and One Liner Wednesday) has been doing posts entitled "What Day is it Anyway" during these strange times.

It's Monday today and the start of the second week of being locked down here in the UK. We can go out for essential shopping (infrequently) and for exercise once a day but always maintaining social distancing of at least 2 metres.

I don't think we'll be venturing out today - the weather changed over the weekend and there are currently grey clouds threatening rain. Thankfully we're still in our house which has lots of stairs so no excuse for not being active. We can just keep going up and down a few times during the day.

Hubby has taken over the cooking during these strange times. He usually does more of it than me but as I'm keeping household chores ticking over and organising the shopping he agrees it's fair for him to cook. We're managing ok so far. We have a Hello Fresh delivery each week which takes care of 3 meals completely and we were well stocked up to fill in the missing days.

I have an online shop coming on Friday and I spent part of this morning planning ahead and working out what essentials we need - orders are now being limited to 80 items which might sound a lot but it doesn't take long to add up.

I've just done an online walking video to make up for the missing outdoor walk.

We've been in touch with family again - keeping up with the WhatsApp groups is almost a full time occupation lol. But it's lovely that we can keep in touch. We had a video chat with Rory and his parents earlier and witnessed him helping himself to cereal from the cupboard. He seems to be having a growth spurt because he's very hungry!

They have been able to walk in the park most days which Rory loves, Nathan has been taking advantage of getting out in the garden:

Noah has been supervising the working from home!

We're all having to adapt to these strange times!

#WDIIA - Sunday 29th March 2020

We lost an hour today thanks to the clocks springing forward.  Well that was my excuse for not being up as bright and early as I'd intended.

I'd decided I need a bit more structure to these days of isolation although of course I have hubby with me so we're duolating.  We're still on speaking terms so that's good.

Anyway I set myself a few tasks to complete which filled some time.  I also caught up with part of my extended family's school group.  My cousins, who I went away with last year, have created a WhatsApp group for their children and grandchildren to share what they're doing and to try and keep the younger ones occupied.  It helps that several of the younger adults are teachers .  This week they've been learning about bees.

One of the tasks was to draw a bee.  Another was to draw a rainbow as that's a symbol that's being used to show hope and solidarity with our NHS.  The next topic they're going to work on is the human heart.

Well the grown ups were supposed to be taking part too so I did my bit this morning:

As you can see I'm no artist but it did fill some time and it was quite therapeutic as it was a welcome distraction from watching/reading the news.

Combining that with some chores, then dinner and then our usual walk and another day is almost done.  WDIIA?  Sunday?