Things are slowly getting back to normal here and Bob is talking about some of his home aids being taken away again - e.g. his raised toilet seat :) We both dislike it so I'm hoping the powers that be will agree.
Just lately we have taken the car about half a mile up the road to a public car park and then walked to the shops, that saves us getting into the busier traffic on the main road. Jacqui comes and takes us to appointments or to do supermarket shopping.
But before we could drive we had to get a Warrant of Fitness (WOF) for the car and I think it needs a new registration in the next month or so. That's ours on the bottom in the picture, waiting for me to go in and pick her up. She passed.
I've managed to get back to church once, a young couple kindly came and picked me up. We meet in a school hall and that particular Sunday was the annual fundraising day and so there was a large number of stalls scattered around the grounds. It was a really hot day and so after a brief look around after the service I went and sat in the car and people watched while they browsed. I enjoyed being back.
I've been out for some shorter than normal walks when the weather has been good, it's turned back to winter this week with -2degs where my daughter was working today. And hail. Oh well, I suppose that's typical spring weather. But we'll be putting another blanket back on the bed tonight.
A couple of months back I put a pair of dress boots on layby ready for next winter. I had them almost paid for when Bob had the stroke and promptly forgot all about them! It was Bob who reminded me about them one day when we were out doing shopping with Jacqui so I went in and finished the payments. It wasn't until I got them home I realised they had the blue on them and it's rather nice. Or if I knew, I'd forgotten. It's just a bit different.
Today we had a couple of bills to get paid and some snail mail to get away and when we'd finished we visited the op shop just a couple of doors down. They had a lot of their Christmas decorations out on sale and it looks so pretty. I love this build up to Christmas but alas I think it's going to be a bit different for Bob and me this year. I don't know whether we'll get out to do shopping the same and I can't see me baking half a dozen Christmas cakes, sadly, But Christmas will still happen and we'll still join family on the day :)
I'm not really an op shopper but my girls and Bob are, so I go in and poke around with him. Today he got himself a brand new telescopic lens that fits on a cell phone. He'll have fun trying to get that worked out. And it wasn't until I got home that I thought I should have bought the baby doll I had picked up, it was only $9, and we could have used it as baby Jesus in the crib at the shop at Christmas. Hopefully it's still there next time I go in. So sometimes I see bargains and don't act on them :)
I will try to get around to reading posts this week. I haven't really felt up to it recently, I get tired quickly at the moment but am looking forward to catching up on everyone's news.
And that's it from me for this week.
Keep well, blessings,
Diana
