{"id":2266,"date":"2021-04-28T18:36:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T18:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2021-04-28T18:45:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T18:45:19","slug":"wednesday-28th-april-2021-day-408","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/2021\/04\/28\/wednesday-28th-april-2021-day-408\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 28th April, 2021 [Day 408]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was one of those days when we knew that we were going to have quite a busy morning (for us) and so it proved. We are usually a little later\u00a0than normal because Wednesday morning is our ‘update’ morning for the Waitrose<\/em> shopping order which we have delivered tomorrow. This having been done and being a bit later than usual, we cut off into the park and had our\u00a0elevenses (as it was more like a midday snack being an hour later than normal) Then we popped by our newspaper shop to pick up our regular supply of newspapers. We ventured after this onto the\u00a0High Street in Bromsgrove in order to access an ATM –\u00a0with these\u00a0strange lockdown days, we tend to get a block of money to last us for\u00a0several weeks as everything else tends to get paid by card over the internet. Having got our money out of an indoors ATM, we wandered down to Waitrose but, on an impulse, ventured into one of the local charity shops\u00a0which are\u00a0now re-opening. The one we entered was the British Heart Foundation<\/em> shop and we had a quick look around to see if there was any\u00a0item that might take our fancy. Just as we leaving, we caught sight of a small display\u00a0<\/span>with about 3-4 ladies handbags on it and one we immediately thought would be just the job for Meg – so we bought it. Now that we have it\u00a0home and I have subjected it to the most minute examination, I am pretty convinced that it is unused and although the label inside says ‘Made in China’ one cannot really tell whether it is actual leather or a leather substitute which is so good you cannot tell the difference. But I did\u00a0notice at least a couple of men’s barber’s shops where I could have wandered in and had a haircut (which I sorely need) on the spot i.e. without their being a queue or an appointment\u00a0system. Our own hairdresser is coming to us next Tuesday morning so having waited this long, we can sure hang on for six more days. Being on the high street, we also took the opportunity to dive into a local shop to buy some toiletries which we like and typically in stock. We then visited our local Waitrose<\/em> which serves as a drop-off point\u00a0for any\u00a0clothes purchases that we make online with John Lewis. We were pleased to pick this up today as the item of clothing was ordered a few days ago and John Lewis had despatched it to the wrong Waitrose<\/em> store. We got an apologetic email from them (after being invited to call them) but as things were only\u00a0delayed by a day or so, we did not honestly mind.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

On our way home and halfway between Waitrose<\/em> and Bromsgrove School, we were delighted to meet up again with an acquaintance of ours who we used to meet some 2-3 times a week in the Waitrose<\/em> coffee bar when it\u00a0was open. Our friend is a local teacher of ‘A’-level politics and had also attended university in Leicester so we always had quite a lot in common. At least a year ago, I had rounded up some of the politics textbooks I was never going to need again and made her a present of them – if they were not useful to her then they could always be donated to the school library or even used as little gifts for some of her students. Our friend told us that the coffee bar in Waitrose<\/em> may well be scheduled for re-opening on July 21st so we may have to wait for\u00a0several more weeks before the old gang can reestablish itself. I asked one of the\u00a0staff inside Waitrose<\/em> whether each visitor on reopening day would be given a bottle of\u00a0Champagne as a mark of loyalty – she thought not but hope springs\u00a0<\/span>eternal! Anyway, I have quite missed our friend (not seen for over a year) and her little child who is now\u00a0rapidly growing up and was at nursery school so having waited for a year, we just need to show a little more patience so that we can eventually have friends re-united. \u00a0By the time we had made these various shopping excursions it was fairly late when we got home so lunch was quite delayed, even by our standards.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In the late afternoon, we FaceTimed<\/em> some of our ex-Waitrose friends whom we normally contact once a week but we had to delay our normal call a week ago because of some technical problems. Anyway, it was great to catch up on each other’s news and, of course, as the\u00a0<\/span>weather has been fine we have all taken the opportunities to make little excursions. Our friends were delighted to make the\u00a0acquaintance again of their latest grandchild who they have hardly seen in the last five months. Naturally this caused a great deal of pleasure but it does raise the interesting question – for many people – whether young children may find it a little difficult to recreate the\u00a0social relationships (e.g. with grandparents) which the lockdowns have denied them\u00a0over the months.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was one of those days when we knew that we were going to have quite a busy morning (for us) and so it proved. We are usually a little later\u00a0than normal because Wednesday morning is our ‘update’ morning for the Waitrose shopping order which we have delivered tomorrow. This having been done and being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2270,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions\/2270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}