What are you all up to

Your granddaughter's team did well OP. 👏👏

I guess you have recovered from your cold/covid. How is your brother doing, may I ask?

A generally dull day here in S.Cumbria, with a little light drizzle for a short while and the occasional glimpse of the sun. Although It was about 8C it felt a lot colder at times when the wind blew. I was able to get the outside of the caravan cleaned and Bobby Dazzled, now not much more to do inside before it is ready for the off again, but nothing planned as yet.

Thanks Nell for the kind words.

Brother been in hospital for 5 weeks now.  He is trying to recover from sepsis and also has a serious heart condition.  He’s confused a lot of the time and is not really capable of looking after himself.  The staff are marvellous 

I was thinking about your brother as well OP. It’s a long hard road is Sepsis, my Dad was in hospital nearly 3 months. Sadly, you are very susceptible to repeat infections as well, and at one bit Dad was in and out of hospital a few times. But he did eventually have a more stable period, and I hope things go as well for your brother.

Beautifully sunny day here. Frosty start, and cold, but it warmed up. I got away early from Mum’s, and we had a smashing birthday tea with family at a Farm shop tea room near Brodsworth Hall. Good company, lots of little ones and plenty of laughs. Nice to catch up with loved ones.🙂

Sorry to hear about your brother OP. Thoughts are with you. It must be hard for you seeing him so poorly. Well done to your grand-daughter, great result. One our grand-daughters (14 today) has played football for some years. Great to see the girls now taking their place on the sporting field. Our 15 year old grand-daughter in N. Ireland is a  rugby player.

What am I doing today?  Not a lot.  After 4 years and all the vaccines Covid has finally got me!   I blame the restaurant at Fountains Abbey.  It’s one of our favourite places to visit for a walk around and last Monday I thought, children back at school, so let’s go for a trip there and some lunch.  I was wrong,  the children in that area were having an extra day off for ‘teacher training’ so the restaurant was packed with them and everyone else, we’ve rarely seen it so busy.  I started with a sore throat on Thursday and it’s developed from there into a ‘flu’y cold.  Took a test yesterday which was positive for the first time.  Fingers crossed it doesn’t last too long. 

Tough luck Heddlo, fingers crossed you have it mild.

 I know 2 couples who went to Panto/Cinema over Christmas and ended up with Covid. Over Christmas period I was doing the food shopping at Tescos at 7.30 in the morning to avoid crowds.

The week has been a bit of a blur. We've been trying to get out some mornings to give ourselves some downtime and then going on to the hospital. Wish everyone had to wear masks in there, just like Spain has reintroduced. 

MiL stable, sometimes lucid sometimes not. Mind, it's only been 1 week. Seems like a month. Just having a laugh as OH washing some clothes and we can see one of those heart monitor stickers they attach to you floating around the washing machine. MiL tore them off one day as they were hurting her. Obviously she got told off but one of the stickers must have got caught up in her nightdress

Best wishes to Oneputt. Hope things improve for you.

Good to hear from you WN. Hope MIL improves soon

Quiet day planned today it’s cold outside but bright so I went out and gave the car a wash it had been washed and valeted during the week when it was in at the Volvo specialist but with all the salt on the roads it was filthy again doubt it will stay clean for long this week.

We’ve been busy planning the season ahead got a few weekends lined up to our local haunts and also plan a week down in Blackpool early March, won’t be away at Easter this year but for the summer we are planning Norfolk are looking at the Cromer club site but want to get a service pitch and some of our chosen dates are fully booked so looking at the sandringham club site as an alternative it looks good so may go there if we can’t get in to Seacroft. Looking forward to Norfolk it’s the only area of the UK we haven’t really visited. Spending this afternoon watching snooker 

Hope everyone else is having a nice weekend 

Sorry to hear about your brother OP - but good to hear that he is getting good care. heddlo - what bad luck - hope you are soon feeling better. Ros's daughter (primary school teacher!) and all the family had it a couple of weeks ago - fortunately it was fairly mild - but we kept well away!

Cold here today - but we've got something we don't seem to have seen for weeks - sunshine! Until today, it's never really seemed to get light.

Francis 

Seacroft is very popular. Interestingly it has as many, if not more, serviced pitches as ordinary pitches! Just a thought on the Sandringham site, I think you would find it better for cycling? The roads around are not so busy. In the past we could walk up to the House from the site but don't think that is a option now with Margaret's hip showing no signs of improvement. 

David