Another week in lockdown looms. VE Day 75th anniversary, Grunters birthday, Boris' easing of the lockdown measures, hopefully something to moan about this week.
Fri 8th May - Bank holiday for 75th anniversary of VE Day. Lovely hot day, eagerly awaiting the delivery of Covert and the new Hibernation later today. Made Grunters' birthday cake, a chocolate sponge which will have a fresh cream and raspberry filling tomorrow. While I had the ingredients out and oven on I also made a Lemon Drizzle for the 'Beer Santa's' on their delivery later.
Thought I would ring mother as it was VEDay Anniversary, I started off with a rendition of We'll Meet Again closely followed by Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag. I asked her if she remembered VE Day and the party they may have had in the street, she said she wished she had the old photo from that day where my sister was dressed up and sitting in the street. I kindly reminded her that VE Day was 1945 and my sister wasn't born until 1952 so she would have had a bit of trouble being there! We later established that she gave my sister this particular photo, it was of the queens coronation party in 1953! I then had to tell my mother that she would have been 16 on VE Day and couldn't she remember it? I was just told that I confuse her and get her all muddled up. We then got onto the 'wonderful' times they had during the war and how it made them better people. She then says she would rather have the war than this current Coronavirus lockdown. I did remind her that would she rather that her grandchildren and great grandchildren were sent off to war on the front line, we would be subject to severe rationing, and there would be no TV or easy communication to call her every day! Think she finally saw sense!
They dragged out Vera Lynn again, to be honest I thought she was already dead but she is 103, good on the old dear! She seems to appear at every war anniversary going singing 'We'll meet again'. Although obviously she hasn't got long left perhaps they ought to consider cryogenically freezing her to defrost her for the 100th anniversary!
The beer order arrived, had a few in the sunshine, had dinner then watched tv with a very tired Inca snuggled up to me as she had been out in the garden all day. I did manage a short snore through Gogglebox.
Sat 9th May - Grunters 30th, Josh cooked up Mexican breakfast taco's for breakfast washed down with Bucks Fizz. While Grunters went to see her mum and dad we decorated the shed with balloons and Happy 30th birthday posters. I still had chance before she came home to do the raspberries and cream for her birthday cake and get it into the fridge.
Josh bought her 30 beers for 30 years, it was only when she opened the boxes and had a recount that it was established that he had miscounted and bought 31, or more likely, is Sophie actually a year older!
A very warm afternoon, trust Grunters to get this weather when it was cloudy and drizzly on my big birthday,! But do I complain? Bloody right I do!
I made Ouzo mojitos to go with the Greek meal that Josh made of Souvlalki, Chicken Gyros, Haloumi, Greek salad, Tzatziki, Hummus and flat bread. Later we had the birthday cake, that seemed to go down ok!
The Hibernation and Covert were going down a treat.
Sun 10th May - Doesn't look to be so hot today, looks to be quite windy from my position lying in bed at 10.40am. Weather didn't improve once I'd got up. We had a lazy day, even Inca couldn't be bothered to move from the sofa. Lovely Lasagne for dinner. We all sat down in anticipation of Boris' great easing of restrictions speech to the nation. What a complete waste of time, the blustering idiot made the whole nation more confused that they were before with so many unanswered questions. We will have to wait again for the 50 page explanation to be released to tomorrow.
Mon 11th May - still chilly but more sunny. Inca has had a new lease of life and spent the morning whining or bounding about like a complete idiot. I think this was a sign that she fancied getting out, so off we went for a walk around the local fields which seemed to calm her down for the rest of the day.
Boris had obviously not communicated his new 50 page easing of restrictions to his MP's or cabinet, several of which were questioned on TV in the morning, including his deputy Dominic Raab, who all got things completely wrong when questioned. If his own MPs do not know how this is going to work moving forward what hope do the general public have? There seem to be some crazy rules within this document, you can travel to work, be with your collleagues all day inside but you can only meet up with one other person from outside your household and this must be in the open air! And this cannot be in the garden, it must be a public place??? You can drive anywhere in the country as long as you come back the same day, but then they appeal for the public not to go to popular beauty spots or tourist places. What do they think is going to happen! People travelling into the country are going to have to self isolate for fourteen days, but not yet! Why on earth was this not brought in at the start of the outbreak? It is obvious that this is far too late and would have saved thousands of lives if done very early on! Who actually thought up these rules, someone with no touch on reality, Dominic Cummings perhaps?
Enough of my rant! I could go on all day. I was appointed head chef for the day and made a Polish Bigos for dinner, a type of hunters stew with Saurkraut, pork and Polish sausage.
Tues 12th May - not much of a happening day, sunny but still a bit chilly. Made my complaint via Resolver about Virgin Atlantic. They were quite happy to take our money nearly 11 months ago but when it comes to giving a refund for their cancellation they refuse to give me any timescale. I fully understand their position that I am just one of thousands but according to the government CMA department they must indicate a timescale for refund and it must be reasonable, they refuse to do this.
Wed 13th May - Russ's 60th birthday, welcome to the club! We should have been on a yatch charter day trip and sunset cruise off Antigua. Oh well, these things are sent to try us! Also relaxation of lockdown rules, lets await the chaos. I will use the relaxation of the rules to drive down to Owermoigne at the weekend but will only go straight to the house to do some maintenance then back later, we are not allowed to stay over. Unfortunately as the weather is supposed to be good at the weekend I fear that the coast will be packed with day trippers but the police will not be able to do anything about it!
Thurs 14th May - sunny but chilly again, Anna has tomorrow off due to built up flexitime so we will go down to Owermoigne tomorrow to do our chores. Pity we can't stay over but I do understand the reasoning behind the decision, we would only stay in at our house but others, if allowed, would not follow the same path. To be honest I am looking forward to the trip, the furthest I have been in the last 7 or so weeks is to Lidl and back, about 4 times. Anna, with a bit if my help, cleared a wider path through the garage which had been narrowing with all the dumped boxes, garden implements and Josh's brewing paraphernalia. Only the other side of the garage with all of Josh's work display stuff to get sorted now! Josh was appointed weekly shopper today going to Sainsbury's.
Another week of lockdown over, going forward let's see how Boris' new easing of restrictions pan out. I have done pretty well in the avoidance of chores this week, long may it continue!
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