New Routines....

Six months ago it would have been a real bonus to have a Saturday night "home alone"...now it takes on a whole new meaning. With Jack, Stephe and Dan in Vancouver we are only three here at Seaford. Tom and Bex have both gone out to friends....leaving yours truly to dog sit....not that they need sitting.

In truth I've done nothing of any use this evening...there was every best intention...but sitting down on the sofa was always going to be a bad move, and I've struggled to stay awake. I can't say that I'm really sleeping well at the moment, well, not at night anyway.....and consequently I get very tired after supper.

This is Bex's second evening out in a row....and I'm so pleased that she's getting out. She's also upped her hours at work, and that's another good thing. Even I've managed to get in plenty of meetings this last week...although in many ways I wish it wasn't quite so busy. Brexit is a big deal, and there is plenty to keep me occupied....I just hope that all this hard work pays off...if there's "no deal" then things will get "interesting".

Jack and Stephe flew out to Vancouver on Tuesday and met up with Dan straight away. They've done sea plane rides...helicopter trips over the Rockies....and Orca watching! I pretty sure that seeing killer whales in their natural habitat was well up on Dan's bucket list....and I'm really pleased that he's managed to see some. Dan will be back on Monday evening...his fortnight will have flown past.

We've been getting on with "sorting out stuff" at home. There isn't a phrase that sits easily...."sorting out Jill's stuff" is what it is...but we're nearly there I think. However, we do keep finding odd bits and pieces where there are decisions to be made .... "what do we do with that?" is a phrase that's been used a lot lately. That even extends into the larder, where we are trying to "get organised". How many different types of sugar do we now need? How many different cooking oils? In reality things are going to be much simpler in the future when it comes to cooking....not that we're not creating genuine home made food...but (as I said the other evening) the realistic chances of us making cakes and the likes are now pretty small.

We've already dropped into a Saturday afternoon routine. Bex and I take the dogs in the car....Bex drops me (and dogs) at Le Hocq and I start walking east. Bex goes either Waitrose shopping, or M&S or, as happened today, BOTH! On the two occasions that we've done this I've managed to get as far as Seymour before Bex got back to pick me up....it certainly is a walk that the dogs love. However, it's a little poignant for me as the last time Jill and I walked the dogs on the beach together it was at Le Hocq.

I must work out how to insert photos on this blog...there's a couple that I've been meaning to put up for a while, but (being on my own without children who know how to do these things) it's not going to happen this evening. The cards and letters are still arriving....the last dozen or so are from people who were away last month....and we've also had some really lovely notes from those Doctors and Nurses that we wrote to after Jill's passing.

All in all life goes on....the washing machine is being used...we've been eating hot food...the dogs are getting walked...beds are getting changed... we've been wearing clean clothes (occasionally!)...I've even stretched to paying the "household" bills.

Things that are still a bit of mystery include "the iron", Jill's online banking and "the deep freeze" (of course we know what it is...it's just we haven't got around to looking to see what's in it!). No doubt there will be a whole blog post about what is discovered once we break the code and get into Jill's standing orders.

More soon reader.