Day 39

Thank you Dr Tim for yesterday’s blog. It certainly took the pressure off and was a really good read. I am still re-reading and loving the Boris Johnson name list tirade and I am now following Stewart Lee in the Guardian. I also loved the really artistic pictures and we are really jealous of the beautiful countryside that you can visit.

Back to me again..

We have really enjoyed listening to one particular blackbird who has been singing his heart out from atop a neighbours television aerial. So an obvious tune for the song of the day.

We have been considering the things that we do and don’t need these days. We don’t need cash, credit cards, cars, petrol, SatNav, maps, suits, ties, shoes, coats, umbrellas, hats, keys, passports, shopping bags, lunchboxes, school bags, handbags, glad rags and the list goes on.

Things we do need that we have – work to do, books, music, some good things to watch on TV, the internet, wine, beer, whisky.

Things that we need that we want – a haircut, draught ale, fish and chips from a chip shop, takeaway from the Indian, to get out of this house for a long walk, the beach, Corfe Castle, the company of more people.

Enough of that. We both worked in the dining office this morning and Mrs Henderson also tried phoning some students.

Great to see Garry who kindly lent me more weights for my exercises.

It’s been a busy day for the cats.

Oscar has an exercise regime that involves going out of one of the bedroom windows onto the roof, down into the back garden, in through the cat flap, up the stairs. He normally does about 4 reps. It’s exhausting for him. All Baby can do is watch.

Apparently a lot of people are putting up rainbow pictures in their windows. I have only seen one neighbour who has done this. Sitting in the garden I realised that I have a rainbow of colours in the central flowerbed.