This morning dawned beautifully sunny and the forecast is for it to remain the same all weekend. Today, we should have been on a ferry to France, which was a real shame, but hopefully, we can go in September when this is all over.
First thing, Sophie and I went to the pharmacy at Mawsley to pick up Dad's prescription. I had a long chat with Mum on her doorstep and then we came home to a breakfast of veggie sausage sandwiches, sitting in the sunny conservatory.
I will say one thing at the moment, though - the time is absolutely whizzing by, which is a good thing! Sophie and I did a quick tidy-up and hoover and we prepared the chicken for our Jerk Chicken Pasta this evening. By lunchtime we had contacted Mike and went to pick him up from town. In all honesty, today resembled a "normal" day - there was quite a few cars on the roads and tons of people out walking, jogging or cycling. In fact, I have never seen so many people out on bikes on the roads!
Back home I made Sophie's ice-cream cake and then had a quick shower. The plan was to go out for a walk and I put my walking boots on in the hope they would ease the pain in my foot. Yesterday, a Shiatsu foot massage machine arrived and it's been a big hit with all of us, even if it is a little painful at times!
We had a wonderful walk - we went up to the village and crossed the sheep field to join up with the track we used to use. I can't remember the last time we went this way and it brought back some truly lovely memories, especially the field where there used to be horses, and the owner would dump a load of carrots nearby to feed them. We always managed to find weird shaped ones to giggle over!
We saw another family out walking and stood for ages looking at the back of our estate where changes had been made to some of the houses since we came here last. I felt so lucky that we have all this on our doorstep and we can roam over the fields to our hearts' content!
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| A gorgeous Florida sky! |
We carried on and decided to take the path that comes out behind a row of houses in Walgrave. However, since our last walk here, a small bridge had been removed so we had to walk a bit further to cross the small stream. It was so beautifully quiet, only the sound of a skylark somewhere overhead could be heard.
Finding the track at last, we passed an old friend of Sophie's who was out walking with her family and when we reached the village we met one of her old teachers! We had a chat and then trudged home - by now we had been out for an hour and a half!
Back home we had a good chat with Richard and Michelle, Paul and another neighbour Ruth. The sunshine has certainly brought everyone out!
Today was supposed to have been the Grand National from Aintree but they decided to run a virtual race instead! I picked Any Second Now as my runner and we were still able to place bets on the race. It wasn't the same as usual but I was able to watch it without any fear as the horses weren't real and if they fell, it didn't matter! Keith's horse came first and mine came third so we didn't do too badly!
After the race, Sophie made us both Margaritas and we settled down to watch the lovely film, Charade starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. It was really great to sit and relax and forget about the current situation.
I made dinner this evening and while we were cooking I went out to get another bottle of wine and heard an almighty racket going on - Monty was having a vicious fight with Joe who lives down the road! I managed to separate them and Sophie came rushing out to find out what was going on. Both cats hared off down the road, where Monty had another go at Joe! Sophie managed to separate them again but Monty was all bristly and in a right state! He growled at her when she picked him up and she realised he was bleeding from his paw.
We always thought that Joe and Monty got on but it seems not! We settled him down but he was very uptight all evening!
Dinner was delicious and after we'd eaten we watched a new Nordic thriller on BBC4 called Twin. It looks very promising!
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