Loo rolls left: Still OK

There has been a hiatus in posting. I shall blame it on Diane’s birthday and our engagement party a couple of days earlier.

I now have achieved a ghost like status. I do exist but am not as yet fully formed. Hopefully I will be returned to full functionality on Thursday. It may be a complicated and long-winded process, so I will update you then.

Day 11 Friday 3rd

Friday  was of a lazy day, had a lie in then made a cooked breakfast.

Our forthcoming wedding was discussed. Admittedly it is not until next summer, but we need to decide on a venue. We have about five places we have seen on the internet that we quite like the look of. We were supposed to visit Scotland today to see some of them in person. Unfortunately, Covid-19 has changed those plans. It might end up at Kingston Registry Office, followed by the reception in the Watchman at this rate,

We went to the allotment in the afternoon. We didn’t achieve much but did get to witness a rather magnificent sunset.

Day 12 Saturday 4th

We had our Engagement Party tonight. We would have liked to have had everyone on the same room, but with lock-down in place we couldn’t. Zoom was a pretty acceptable alternative. In fact, it allowed us to get more people together than we probably would have managed if we had held the party in the flesh. My family from Scotland joined in, as did Diane’s friend from Wales. We had a good time. Zoom lets you split a large group up into rooms, so we did that, which allowed people to get to know each other better. It worked better than I expected. Though some people were not quite so pleased. One friend decided it was just an excuse not to buy him a drink.

Day 13 Sunday 5th

Our Prime Minister was admitted to hospital today suffering from Covid-19. Other than that nothing much happened.

Day 14 Monday 6th

Today was Diane’s ??th birthday. Fortunately her present arrived, via Amazon, on Saturday. After having been told that it would not arrive until the 29th. I was quite pleased to have something to give her.

It was also her daughter-in-law’s birthday, so we went round to her house and left the presents in the porch. We then proceeded to have a slightly stilted conversation through an open window. A virtual afternoon tea was arranged, via Zoom. We dragged the bone china tea-set out, and had scones with jam and cream. We even had a birthday cake, which Diane found in Waitrose last week, reduced to 25p (from £5.25), it was fine. For evening meal we decided to have a steak.

I spent part of the afternoon, even though Monday is a day off trying to re-establish my existence. As I mentioned in the introduction, I am now recognized as existing, but my presence is not fully established. I got nowhere.