Some Days!

 Some days the bad news just keeps coming!  This morning my mum phoned me and told  me my cousin had had a heart attack yesterday.  Apparently she'd been at a funeral and felt ill so went home and lay down.  When she wasn't any better later they phoned the doctor who ordered a paramedic visit when he heard the symptoms and the paramedic recommended she go to hospital.  She's still in and is getting all sorts of tests but so far she's doing well.  Then at lunch time my daughter sent me a screenshot of a Facebook post another cousin had posted to say his sister had died this morning.  I knew she had cancer but I didn't realise she was so ill.  No sooner had I sent my condolences than I got another text from my sister in law to inform me that an elderly aunt of hubbys had died last October.  Having sent her a Christmas card last year I was aware that we hadn't received our usual one from her so I asked sister in law if she'd heard anything.  She hadn't but this week was talking to another of her aunts and found out the aunt had died.  I'm glad we found out or I'd have been sending cards to her care home for goodness knows how long!  By mid afternoon I was almost afraid to go near the phone!  They say things happen in three's so hopefully that's the three!

We picked up our new to us car today.  What a palaver that was!  Lots of the paperwork is now done online due to Covid and they are hoping to continue it after so they asked for our feedback.  We said it's rubbish!  There were so many mistakes or glitches which meant we had to phone the dealer (who was always busy and would call us back but much later, after we'd shut down the computer!)  We said we felt it would have been much easier and quicker to do in the showroom but it might just be because we're oldies!  Computer savvy as we are, there are some things that just bamboozle us (I love that word!).  Anyway, all was well in the end.  Well, almost!  Before we went to collect the car I said to hubby 'is the car completely empty now?'  'yes' 'you're sure there's nothing we need to check'  'no, I cleared everything out yesterday'  'ok'.  At the dealership the salesman said 'is the car empty, you've got everything out' 'yes' we both said.  We got home and sitting having a cup of tea and suddenly hubby says 'I think I left a cd in the car'  'WHAT? you said the car was empty'  'I thought it was but I just saw the cover for the cd on the table there and I don't think I checked the cd player and there's no cd in the cover'  One job, he had one job!!!  The good news is our daughter works directly across the road from the car dealership so she nipped across after work and picked it up for us.  Yes he did indeed leave my new Andre Rieu cd in the car that's about to be squished at the scrappy! x