Day 744

Day 744...

We have had a mixed bag of weather today from a light flurry of snow first thing to heavy snow to blue skies and sunshine and then back to heavy snow and then repeat.

Typically the snow decided to show itself just as I decided to pop out for a quick Lidl shop. I was due to meet my brother and his wife later this morning so wanted to nip out and get the little bit of shopping we needed out of the way.

By the time I'd got everything I needed (all of 10 minutes) the weather had changed from grey and very snowy to bright blue skies and sunshine! And that pattern continued for the rest of the day.

I met my brother and his wife at my dads house mid-morning and we set about getting some more cleaning done. They had brought a carpet cleaner with them and made headway with that while I concentrated on the kitchen. Unfortunately my dad had not been as diligent with the cleaning as he perhaps should have and so consequently there is a lot to do but we are getting there slowly. Unfortunately we weren't able to get all the stains out of the carpets but they all look, and smell, fresher now.

This afternoon we had an update from the coroner who has confirmed that because of the circumstances around my dads passing, and following the post mortem today, certain tests are now needed. It is going to take 8 weeks for the results of these tests to be known and then it is highly likely that an inquest will be needed. But we do now have an interim death certificate and his body has been released to the funeral home so that we can start to make arrangements.

Before we knew it the whole day had passed us by, and as I arrived home Simon was heading down our gym. I decided to leave him to it as I still had a few things that I needed to do as the coroner had emailed over some forms that needed signing, scanning and returning. I am in work all day tomorrow so wanted to make sure I actioned stuff tonight so as not to hold anything up.

So Thursday is done and dusted and I will see you tomorrow.
xx

Sunny Saturday

Day 346...

Well this Saturday we were up and about with purpose for a change! 

We had the job of collecting some donations for pre-school from our local Asda. Jon, their Community Champion, really looks after us at pre-school and always helps out as much as he can. Jon would love to be coming out to visit the children but until that time comes around again he helps out with whatever supplies we need. Today it was a trolley full of different fruits ready for our story time activity next week; acting out the story called Handa's Surprise which involves different types of fruits, some of which children may not have been introduced to yet.

After dropping all the goodies off at pre-school we arrived home and immediately went out again. This time it was our usual Saturday morning walk into the next village for coffee...and a cake to bring home for Ethan. Another 4 miles walked, taking our February total to 58!!

We then sat outside in the garden, in the sunshine with another coffee...maybe two! It was lovely to be sat outside in the warmth of the sun and just take a short while to chill out, and soak up that all important vitamin D!

Simon has done a little more work on his R2D2 build and made some enquiries into getting one of his latest art pieces printed so that he can sell them as a limited edition print. Always a tricky one to make sure that the final artwork prints out at the right colour saturation so he spent some time tweaking and playing around with levels of colour.

My job for the afternoon was to sit and watch the Disney film Brother Bear so that I could come up with some questions ready for tomorrow's Disney Dream Girls Disney quiz via Zoom! It is a long while since I have watched the film and while it was a nice little film I don't think it's one I'm going to be rushing to watch again anytime soon.

Well, Simon has rounded out the day with a little gym workout while I write this blog and do a little menu prep for the week ahead...trying to be organised! With the amount of time on my hands at the moment it's the least I can do. And then we will be sitting down to our usual Saturday night viewing of RuPauls Drag Race!

Hope you've had as best a Saturday as you can, take care.
xx