The day started windy, wet and cold, hubby stays in bed with a cup of tea and I get washed and dressed as its housework day.  Sarah has not contacted me so I'm hoping she'll be back next week, I'm sick of cleaning bathrooms and showers, it's not how I want to spend my time.  Faye face timed last night, she can't believe that Ella will not be going back to school, she doesn't understand how reception classes will keep their distance.  We do have a laugh as she works in the shoe department of John Lewis and we discuss how they will help customers buying shoes, I suggest that she just chucks them from six feet and tells them to try their own shoes on, or she could wear a hasmat suit and work on the shop floor, she decides the hasmat suit would be her option as she's put weight on in lockdown!   I had my chat with Harry, Daddy is stressed he tells me, Mummy suggested a board game, Daddy said, give me strength, Mummy cried, Harry cried because Mummy was upset, where are they now I enquire, not quite sure where Daddy is but Mummy is digging the garden and putting horse manure on it, it flashes through my mind that Daddy might be under the manure!  I call them later and they are playing Monopoly, Lisa says Tugs has turned into an evil land grabber and she's spent most of her time in Jail, probably safer there I say.  We've been to see if the tip was open, it's not, so my garage stays a mess until further notice.  An easy tea, scrambled eggs on toast and lemon cake.  Take care all, love Carol x 

Dear Carol.

Upi were good getting your ironing done... I keep looking at mine and it growing, and I really don't feel like doing it.  It will get to the stage where if I'm going to wear anything I will have to do some.  Pur weather has not been suitable for doing anything outside, at least today it didn't rain although still cold and windy.  I'm sort of on the fence with whether we should be in lockdown or not, I guess for people who this virus really would be serious maybe even fatal, It's could but I can see too the damage to the whole financial well-being of our countries.  I wonder if we might have been better to just let it run its course and then we'd be done with it.  Saying that though they are letting us do a little extra from Wednesday, I can then apparently visit Bree, but have to come home again the same day.  Not sure what else is possible, I missed the news tonight.  Can understand how you were worried about Lisa's message.  Not a good decision to tell an 8 yo that we live to drink gin.  At least you made a laugh.
Glad to hear that despite Norman's back still painful, it does sound like his shingles is getting better.  

Deana has had a wonderful couple of days selling flowers for Mother's Day.  She apologised when she came home (she usually gives me flowers and something else) without flowers, she'd sold them all and could have sold more if she had them.  A very quiet day for me though, I had Eli, which was fun, did a casserole for tea last night, we had the leftover of that tonight for tea.  Eli might be starting to talk a bit more (only only says about a dozen words) but yesterday ready to him I was positive he said tiger and then tonight he said please.  He has had quite a few hearing checks because of his lack of speech and of course Bree's kids as well.  He can hear though he does what your've said and understands what you're saying.  If anyones phone rings he races to get it before you do.  Just to busy doing things to worry about speaking.  I slep for the first time in his bed today for his afternoon nap, and is in it tonight, will be interesting to see what he does in the morning when he wakes, whether he just wanders out himself or waits for Deana to get him.

Not much else happening here.

Take care and love to all.  Sue xx

Hi Billy,

I'm so glad you've helped Bren to get more out of life.  I really worry about doctors prescribing medication without checking whether it would be necessary or safe, so good on your friend for telling you to stop that one, and good on you for doing it. 

Christine  xx

Dear Sue, I think because we are older we struggle with expecting everyone to keep us safe, it is not our way and although I understand the thinking behind it I truly think we will come to see that you can't save the world.  Norman has phantom pain today, if its not one thing its another.  He hopes his golf course will open this week and he can go and have some fresh air and get away from me!  We are doing OK though and have only had one cross word in 7 weeks, when he called me a Drama Queen, he knows that annoys me so it's the phrase he uses to push my buttons and it works.  Eli probably doesn't say much as I found that with Lisa, everyone did everything for her, Faye got a drink, Lisa got one, Faye asked for a biscuit so Lisa got one, I suddenly realised that she didn't have to talk we made it easy for her not to.  I'm sure he will be fine, little boys are a lot slower early in life then gallop ahead.  I got my food parcel again this morning and have now had to clear my larder cupboard out to fit it all in!  So a good job done which has been put off for months.  We can now see the wood for the trees so I'm going to keep accepting them as it saves me going into shops, standing in the street in a queue where most people dont know  what 2 metres is!  It's chilly here again and after the weekend it's difficult to deal with, 22 degrees down to 7 degrees is a big drop.  Take care all of you, love Carol x 

We've actually escaped today and went to the golf club to check hubby's buggy, we got there and Don already had it out, I've been ringing you he says, we're not there I say, we all laugh.  Other people apart from us two, how exciting, we keep our distance but the smile on his face says it all, he can get out the house safe in the fresh air, but it starts hail stoning so we come home and decide to leave it until the sun comes out again!!    Christine popped round to pick up some fabric to make headbands and scrub bags, she has given them to the home my Mum was in for two years, they were thrilled as they are having to source their own stuff and it's getting harder, it's nice to know my fabric will help.  The family have kept quiet this week but what with home schooling, all the meals and full time work I'm leaving them to it.  I'm not sure if we will see them any time soon but if we are all safe that's fine.  Not much else to report, love Carol x 

Well I think it's Thursday!  Mary rang, Joe had escaped to the golf club and she had been up since 6.30am, Nirman would have hated it if I had got up with him before golf, he liked his own space.  We have a good twenty minute natter but she is keeping her distance and wearing a mask in the supermarket.  Hubby and I go to Piry Me garden centre, it's all beautifully done,  a cleansing station, a one way system to keep us safe, I buy some hanging baskets and we drive home in the sunshine, hubby stays safe in the car.  After hanging the baskets up I poured a glass of chilled wine and sat outside reading the paper.  Linda is out in her garden and we have a natter, she's given up on social distancing as her daughter is bringing the two boys around as she's probably had enough of two boys under four!   Tea is eaten and another night in front of the TV.  See you tomorrow, Carol x 

I'm sat k itting Ella's cardigan and watching an autobiography about Leslie Howard the actor, very interesting and informative.  I did pop to our local garden centre but it was chaos, a narrow road leads to it and people had double parked, I thought I would scratch my car for the sake of a plant!  Hubby is asleep as his back pain is bad, the shingles have left nerve damage which is all he needs.  I rang Faye but she was so fed up she depressed me!  Lisa rang and Harry came on.the phone so by the time I got to talk to her they were going out to meet a friend for the first time in 8 weeks.  He was talking about his Monopoly game, Mummy is out as she only had £21 left.  He couldn't understand why the houses were so cheap and I said that my original. Monopoly was fifty years old, so we checked it out and it first came out in 1935, so he then understood the values were different.  The day has been beautiful but it is getting chilly now.  I'm still watching this film and Leslie Howard was targeted by the Germans, they shot him down, he died at the peak of his career. So take care all, love Carol x 

What a weird night I had, funny dreams, about what I couldn't tell you but they left me feeling disorientated and then I couldn't wake up!!  When I dragged my eyes open it was 10am.  This has thrown me off kilter all day, I've caught my little toe under the door and took skin off it, I fell over my car on the way for the papers then dropped the shopping on the floor, I decided not to go for a walk in case I fell down a slope and ended up in the muddy stream.  Does anyone else get days like this?  Hubby is still doing well and has eaten steak for tea, he bought a file on line and filed his broken teeth with  it!  Hopefully you are doing well.  Love Carol x 

Dear Carol, Ultimately it is up to us to keep ourselves safe, family can only do so much by limiting contact.   Glad to hear you are both doing ok, and not getting on each others nerves.  It would have been a struggle for Neil and I to stay calm.  He hated being cooped up inside, and it would have got to him very quickly.  I know what you are saying with regards to Eli without him saying what he wants we oblige so he looses a lot of incentive to speak, although he is starting to come out a few more words just in the last day or so he has said Aurora, his playmate from daycare.  Boys are supposedly slower too with somethings..  He understand exactly what you sau though, just today I was brushing Mr Higgins, and had collected quite a large ball of fur, I asked Eli to put it in the bin, he came and got it from me and put it in the bin.  We aren't worried yet.  I'm sure once he starts, we'll never shut him up.  Our weather has been horrid, wold and wet until today. it was quite pleasant today but is expected to be cold overnight.  I'm losing track of what day it is, this not going anywhere, each day the same.  We are now allowed to visit people but no more than 5 can visit.  When Bree's kids go back to school I'll go and visit her, wait till after they all get home from school so I see them also.  Poor Bree can't wait. Before them would just disrupt schoolwork.  It's only another 2 weeks that I have to wait,  A lot of our shops also have an entrance and another solely to exit, so we keep our distance.  I have wool here and keep looking at patterns trying to work out what I want to make.  I find a nice paattern and the wool isn't the right ply.  I'll get there eventually.  
I've been reading lots and have finished 11 Patricia Cornwall books.  Will have to wait till be library opens to try and finish the next 11.

I'll watch Eli for a bit tomorrow afternoon, Deana has an appointment with the accountant for the shop,  but not much else happening.

Take care and love to all.  Sue xx