{"id":2993,"date":"2021-08-31T20:22:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T20:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2021-08-31T22:03:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T22:03:41","slug":"tuesday-31st-august-2021-day-533","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/2021\/08\/31\/tuesday-31st-august-2021-day-533\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 31st August, 2021 [Day 533]"},"content":{"rendered":"

The gloomy weather continues today – the weather forecasters tell us it is because of a ‘blocking high’ to the north of\u00a0Britain which is encouraging some\u00a0cooler winds to flow around it. So we may have to\u00a0endure this gloomy spell for a little while longer yet but there is a hint that things might get a little bit better in a few days time. Because today is my Pilates day, Meg and I thought that we would go down into town by car and we\u00a0would treat ourselves to a\u00a0cappuccino and a cake (which was very enjoyable) We then went by car knowing, that as usual, I have quite a quick turnaround to start my walk down to my Pilates class. All of this worked out well and the class went very well with five of us in attendance altogether. On the way home, I called in at our local Asda<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>because I needed some home-made remedies to clean toilets and \u00a0washbasins. If you look on the web, you will see a whole torrent of articles that extoll the virtues of a combination of\u00a0bicarbonate of soda (which the\u00a0Americans call ‘baking soda’) \u00a0and white vinegar which will react together to form a foaming mass which should,\u00a0with a little bit of friction, help to remove ground in dirt. So having bought these ingredients, I shall have a fun time doing a little bit of home-made chemistry. There are some sources on the web that argue that these ‘natural’ and ‘home-made’ cleaning agents are both\u00a0more effective and also less\u00a0damaging to surfaces than the\u00a0conventional commercially available cleaning agents.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Meg and I had the lunch which we reserve for my Pilates day which is normally\u00a0<\/span>fishcakes accompanied by some of those greens that only take a few minutes in the microwave. So after our \u00a0lunch and a coffee, we FaceTime<\/em>d my\u00a0sister as it was her birthday today. I had taken great pains to try and get a birthday card to her in time for her birthday –\u00a0unfortunately, it had failed to arrive. When I got through to my sister, she was not having the best of birthdays as her husband had been admitted to hospital the previous day and they were running some scans on various\u00a0parts of his anatomy to identify the source of his problems. We only had a\u00a0few minutes chat with my sister because the time was approaching when we normally FaceTime<\/em> our ex-Waitrose<\/em> friends and so terminated the call\u00a0with my sister, having agreed to call her later. Then we had our normal weekly session with our ex-Waitrose<\/em> friends and we updated them with various bits of news (some medical, some culinary, some domestic and\u00a0family) by which time we were ready for tea.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

After tea, I had just started this blog and my sister returned my FaceTime<\/em> call (fortunately, I was sitting right in front of my portable which I have in the living room so that I could respond quickly) We got the full blow-by-blow account of what had been happening to her husband (my\u00a0<\/span>brother-in-law) so we are hoping that his stay in hospital his short and that the various scans will help to suggest some treatment options for him. Once he returns home, then certain\u00a0adaptations may have to be made to their accommodation. My sister had taken it upon herself to order a \u00a0 specialist ‘riser’ chair for her husband which will\u00a0assist him in getting out of his chair and keeping a degree of mobility and it seemed that a firm with which they had been dealing for\u00a0decades was helping to expedite all of this. So we will have to wait until my brother-in-law is\u00a0discharged from hospital and then, no doubt with plenty of assistance from other family members,\u00a0we have the situation in which my\u00a0brother-in-law had been my sister’s principal carer but now\u00a0their roles are going to be reversed – at least temporarily.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, our good Italian friend called around dressed in her ‘going to a funeral’ \u00a0gear had turned up to our house, thinking that the funeral of our near neighbour was\u00a0going to be today rather than Thursday. Our friend had tried to\u00a0telephone us on our landline but as I was in the shower and Meg was\u00a0simultaneously at the wash basin, we neither of us heard the telephone. To cut a long story short, we have now got our plans aligned for next\u00a0Thursday (the day after tomorrow) and we have arranged to\u00a0pick up our friend and we will all go to the funeral together.\u00a0This is bound to be quite an emotional day for all of us but we are a little sustained by the thought\u00a0<\/span>that our neighbour did not linger too long (after her first stroke) and died in her sleep (from the second stroke). So we trust that she did not suffer in her final days and we are just left with lots of\u00a0memories (all \u00a0generally happy ones)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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