Late last night I received an email from two old friends
The email was titled " We Will Meet Again "
It was short and to the point
"So we keep being told........I bloody hope so.
Thinking of you .... keep safe xxxxxx
Ruth & Dale
Sometimes you don't always say what you want to in a reply. especially with people you are not normally demonstrative with...
But last night I was suddenly reminded of that scene in My Best Friends wedding when old friends Julia Roberts and Dermot Mulroney talk about love
Michael O'Neill:
Kimmy says if you love someone you say it, you say it right then, out loud. Otherwise the moment just...
Julianne Potter:
Passes you by...
I wrote back something I wouldn't normally say after my first serious line of " You two keep Safe", I added " I love you guys !" And moments later came the one word answer
Me and chic Eleanor out for a small jaunt at The Crown
As played by Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman
I think we are all in need of a bit of froth
Time for a parlour game
Today's game people is simple " In The movie of your life , who will play you ? As a young version of yourself As the older version of yourself" Be as inventive as possible ! but I am feeling better this morning. I'm still tired and have a nagging headache but I do feel brighter.
I have slept on and off for most of the day and feel ok except for a persistent headache.
The many kindnesses of today have been a tonic better than any doctor could prescribe and although
I don't want to labour the point into something that sounds something saccharine, I can't quite get over the thoughtfulness of others
Today Emma from The Old Crown dropped off her own hens eggs and homemade soup, and more eggs were dropped off by the gate by Heulwen and Derek only a short time before Greta bearing gin popped by. Jason marched Mary around the Gop and Trendy Carol took the bulldogs all afternoon and Dr Polly and her daughters sent me a video from home wishing me well.
The phone has rung and clicked with scores of messages as I've slept and Sailor John and velvet voiced Linda, ( the head of the street warden initiative) have physically called around to see if I was still breathing.
And at 6pm, as it started to rain, Bridget from Well street left her family to walk across the village with a hot roast dinner just for me.
A home cooked meal a panacea against all known ills
I could have lost my cottage during my divorce
And I am so glad I fought to keep it and was able to remain
These last three weeks of shutdown have underlined that I am indeed home
Well I'm an old Queen Too so I too thought I'd say hello and thank you.
Thank you for the good wishes and the kind thoughts
I'm ok and being very well looked after even though my symptoms are not as serious as some have experienced
I was tested this morning for covid and will get the results in a few days.
I obviously have a virus and have the symptoms exactly like one nurse at work has after he caught something from his daughter.
We will wait to see if it is covid.
I have slept, off and on for most of today, and I have wanted for nothing.
A dearheart from the Trelawnyd Street Warden Group dropped off some home made soup and added to the garden wall gift by leaving a whole bag of food and toiletries which was totally overwhelming and my request for dogwalkers illicited seven offers in an hour as well as three new leads after Dorothy had chewed through hers in a fit of anxiety.
The food parcel
Lots of messages thank you
Flis..thank you, Trendy Carol and jason ..thank you
Lots of blog comments...thank you
I'm off to bed soon
But have just talked to my friend Nu who is helping out on the London Intensive care units without intensive care experience
I am so...so proud of her
Stay safe.xx
As soon as I got home,
I started to have some symptoms of covid and am now on full lockdown
No cough but spiked a temp, joint pain and now loose stools and have a mild hangover feeling
Worried about the dogs a bit
Have been referred for rapid testing which is fabulous
Off to have a sleep, if this is the sum of my experience of covid
I hope I have it
Hey ho
Something rather unmentionable covered my work trousers overnight , and I had to resort to borrowing a pair of pyjama bottoms for most of the shift.
One of the patients offered me a pair of her fleece lined lounge pants but I declined gracefully stating they were not quite my colour.
I have worn a uniform of sorts on every day bar one in my entire adult working life of 37 years bar for one day.
That was my first day as charge nurse of my own ward, where I went in for management day wearing a shirt and tie.
The mainly Yorkshire staff were somewhat nonplussed by my effort of looking smart and for the most part laughed good humouredly at my efforts.
One middle aged lass, a support worker who had been a colleague for over a decade sniffed loudly as I passed " You going to a funeral ?" She asked dryly
My ward uniform then was a navy tunic. Going into navy , is a proud step for a nurse in the Uk for it generally means you have reached the rank of " sister" , a position that then signified that you ran your own ward.
Now , with the plethora of clinical nurse specialists and advenaced nurse practitioners sisters can be found in abundance, but still there is a kudos and respect for the role and the experience.
In the early 1990s I went to Pittsburgh to visit the city's rehabilitation units and in one wore my own natty white British uniform in the clinical area
The mainly black collection of patients found it hilarious and often referred to me as "stay puft"Guy A reference which took me a while to work out
There's always one that will bring you down to earth Everyone's a critic!
Overheard but not seen through the living room window
" Hello Darling are you sunbathing"
Winnie gives the stranger a grunt
" Arhhh Geoffrey he's trying to shake paws"
More grunting
"Look Geoffrey shake his paw, he's holding it out to you!"
"Hello" ( males voice - presumably Geoffrey's)
More grunting
" She 's showing you the shaved bit on her leg where the vet took blood" I called out from the living room
" Awwww poor baby let's see your poorly leg then. Come on show us your poorly leg!"
Lots of satisfied grunting followed
Choir meeting last night on Zoom.
Bit of a technological disaster but it was always good to see everyone
Hattie recorded our final song's visuals rather than the singing and speeded up it looks rather sweet given the fact we were all belting out our usual final song
" You Raise Me Up!"
Which often leaves a few choristers all a but teary eyed
The physicality of the lockdown hit home on Monday for obvious reasons
I needed a hug. A physical, it will be alright hug
And it didn't come
But what did come was the texts and the videos and the messages and the gifs and all of those wonderful things the mobile phone and the iPad now gives us all
Almost having friends in the same room .
I've had a shave and a bath and changed my clothes today.
Ive combed my hair and used moisturiser ( see I do listen Mavis)
I've listen to ghost stories videoed from a friend, Colin in Liverpool
And still have paperwork to complete , which has been laying out since Monday
I am officially single and have let go of the want to have closure of certain things too faraway now to need to deal with. History has been rewritten and will be now believed. I emailed my former husband a last email and wished us both " happier times"
I made bread last night
And I'm already looking forward to going back to work tomorrow night
On the whatsapp Trelawnyd community warden forum Bunty shared a photo of her extra short haircut and Affable despot Jason asked me for some spare paintings to put up in his new, home made summer house
Albert looks thinner , maybe needs a wormer
Will treat Trendy Carol ( in natty maroon shorts yesterday) and her hubby to Easter eggs from the girls when I go shopping for dog food later. They continue to be stars
Villager Jim passed the cottage last night and looked through the window to see the lit flamingo
We shared a thumbs up sign " all is well" we mouthed
