{"id":2943,"date":"2021-08-22T21:10:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T21:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/?p=2943"},"modified":"2021-08-22T21:56:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T21:56:05","slug":"sunday-22nd-august-2021-day-524","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/2021\/08\/22\/sunday-22nd-august-2021-day-524\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, 22nd August, 2021 [Day 524]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today has been a wonderful day in many senses of the word. Firstly, the weather was set fair and I enjoyed ny Sunday morning walk early for the newspapers, together with my (by now)\u00a0traditional music\u00a0<\/span>concert on my ancient iPhone (Bach in the the main). I time my journey for the Sunday newspapers so that I can get back in time for the <\/span>Andrew Marr<\/em> show but, of course, I had forgotten that \u00a0in the\u00a0middle of August all of the political elite are on holiday (even when countries like Afghanistan are falling to the Taliban) We sent a quick text to our University of Birmingham friend because we were having our customary weekend meeting with him half an hour\u00a0earlier than planned because we were seeing our other lots of friends\u00a0after 11.0am. We were\u00a0very pleased to have a long chat with our friends over coffee and cakes because they had just returned from Ireland and we had a lot to catch up. The\u00a0first thing wa to coordinate our plans for\u00a0possibly ‘resurrecting’ our planned little holiday to Rome. Having conferred with out friends, we have decided to go for a date in March if the\u00a0flights are still available and the UK\/Italiam governments have lifted their quarantine\u00a0regulations by then. Of course, it is\u00a0also possible that we are in the middle of yet another wave of the pandemic by then but we shall have to wait and see. A second pleasurable task lay before us and that is to see if we can coordinate plans for a joint wedding anniversary meal for 9th September which is, of course, only just over a fortnight away. Our friends\u00a0were going to contact some other mutual friends whose wedding anniversary is incredibly close to ours. So to cut a long story, we are going to hold a 6-strong wedding anniversary meal in just over two weeks time. This is the first time that we have ever participated in a joint wedding anniversary celebration of this type but it makes a lot of sense and is really something to which to look\u00a0forward. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We have some more good news of a family nature – we have now firmed up completely that we are going to journey up to Bolton on October 3rd which just happens to be a Sunday on which Meg’s birthday falls. So this means we can have a great\u00a0reunion plus\u00a0birthday celebration rolled into one and, again, that is a\u00a0family occasion to which we can look forward. Even more family news came through to us as we were blogging this evening. Meg’s very aged uncle who we used to try and see as regularly as we could (in North Wales) has moved into a care home in Alsager, Cheshire, in which his sister is\u00a0already resident and his nephew lives quite near by. One of Meg’s uncle’s relatives phoned up this evening and we have all of the news about the care home that he is in (which\u00a0sounds\u00a0absolutely\u00a0marvellous by the way) Knowing how frail a 94 year old can be, Meg and I feel quite relieved\u00a0because as he was getting so much more frail, he was only a fall away from some kind of\u00a0<\/span>tragedy so we are relieved that he is a much safer place than\u00a0his own home and with staff (in theory) available at the touch of a button.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In the later part of the afternoon, I finally got my accounts up-to-date. What I mean when I say this is that I\u00a0<\/span>like to copy each of my transactions into a large day book and so \u00a0I have a permanent record going back over the months and the years. Then I have a few spreadsheet pages going back over the months for about a year – once my system is up-to-date,\u00a0I record current balances and regular payments on the spreadsheet so\u00a0that I\u00a0should be able to see what my available\u00a0balance is but\u00a0also what commitments are likely to turn up one during the month. I have most of my\u00a0regular payments organised around the date when my\u00a0pensions flow in but there are one or two in the\u00a0latest stages of the month\u00a0and these can be a nuisance if you don’t have an accurate spreadsheet\u00a0page with commitments\u00a0detailed on it as you might think you have more money than is actually the case.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A little household ‘system’ that we have is a largeish whiteboard in which the various comings and goings of family members are detailed with a dry marker and updated every month. Then we can see, ‘at a glance’ what is coming up in the\u00a0forthcoming week, fortnight or month. Looking at next week, for\u00a0<\/span>example, Meg and I have only thing which we must not forget which is Meg’s appointment with the opticians on Thursday next<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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