Slow Return To Normal

Well it was just as well my grandson enjoyed his halloween a week early as last night he broke two bones in his wrist playing football!  Today he's feeling very sorry for himself :(

My mum has been very poorly with what appears to have been a bad cold this week.  She's been coughing constantly, however, as my mum also has heart failure, she coughs a lot at the best of times so it's been hard to tell which was which!  She's not a brave soldier when it comes to illness.  She panics and gets grumpy and her and I just about kill each other then she gets better and it's all good again!  Yesterday, double masked and gloved I went in with some little ready meals from good old M&S for her and she screwed up her face and told me what she thought of that for a plan!  Today I phoned and she sounded much better and told me how delicious the little meal from M&S was!  As I said to her yesterday, 'I can't do right for doing wrong'!!  The doctor wanted a PCR test done on her but she has a horrible tic at her mouth and can't stay still enough to allow anyone to do it so my brother and I decided it's not necessary to do it.  She's on the mend, has been nowhere and seen no-one except him and I and we were both protected as much as was humanly possible when we entered her house.  She got some antibiotics from the doctor and it's made a huge difference, she's not coughing as much and is sounding much brighter and more her old self.  In other news my next door neighbour who's been ill for three weeks now was also finally given antibiotics at the end of last week and when I phoned his wife this morning she said he'd turned a corner and seemed to be on the mend and was eating again, thank goodness.  I felt the world was returning to right again this afternoon - well apart from my grandson I suppose!

Today I did some Christmas shopping!  I didn't set out to.  I set out to return the second pair of slippers I bought hubby from TK Maxx which were too small for him.  We've now decided either his feet have grown or shoe sizes have gone a bit off lately as I then brought back a pair from Sainsbury only to find they too were too small and they are for the size larger than his shoe size!!  I got a couple of things in Next, their housewares are really cute this year, for my aunt and cousin and I got a couple of things in Sainsbury so I'm feeling very organised now!  I'm being very strict with my budget this year and I'm finding it much easier to stay focused on that.  Last year I did most of my shopping online but this year I'm trying to support the brick and mortar shops.  Use it or lose it.

The weather has turned horrible here today.  It's very dark and pouring with rain, although it's not actually cold which is weird.  Apparently it's to get colder next week, although if you believe some of the tabloid papers, all sorts of dreadful weather, the likes of which we haven't seen for who knows how long, is heading our way!!  It never happens so I'm not worried.  

I've gone back to scrapbooking this week.  I started an album of our 2019 trip to Australia a couple of months ago and then came to a halt for some reason and never quite got back to it.  Then at the weekend I got all nostagic for Sydney after watching a video my son had posted on Facebook of them on their boat with their friends so I dug out my album again and as the photos were all slotted in place in it, I started on it again and have been enjoying doing it again.  It's lovely to relive a holiday while making an album, its why I think it's a shame so many people keep their photos on their phones now and rarely print them off.  I know my own children don't.  I think it's a shame for future generations, there will be a huge gap and yet we probably take more photographs now than ever before - it's just no-one will ever see them.  How sad.