DVT DAYS 272 & 273
Its a birthday Saturday so its coffee in bed before presents and some pottering which includes a trip to Wickes to pick up a new curtain rail. While there we ponder carpet tiles in blue. Back home we measure up the office and decide to go for it. So while my partner chats to a friend on the door step I dash back to pickup underlay, carpet tiles and double sided tape. Back home and we put up the new curtain rail and curtains, so the second bedroom is getting close to being finished.
Time to cook a birthday tea and of course indulge in a Bettys triple chocolate birthday cake.
So after cake and bubbles we set up the virtual panic room and set about our CSI Christmas challenge. Which elf did steal the good adn naughty list from Santa? For three hours we set about solving the clues. Me and my partner with our eldest daughter working away whist our youngest daughter and boyfriend on the end of a WhatsApp call logged into the same panic room and solving the clues along with us. So a good fun evening. At the end of the evening I take the time to read a letter from someone my partner and I occasionally go for a meal with. A very generous letter and one that prompts me to pay attention to my training adn health again. I shall reply soon.
Sunday I am up early and ripping up carpet out of the office and laying underlay.
My partner goes to collect clothes and comforts for her mum who is in hospital recovering from an operation to pin her broken leg. I press on and start laying the carpet tiles. With the aid of a variety of improvised tools and a tailors chalk I get to grips with acquiring the required skills. It goes reasonably well until its time to watch England play France in the final of the rugby autumn cup. At half time I cut the last three strips of carpet to go in and then watch England struggle to win in extra time. Back to the office where I hoover the carpet and begin to put some of the equipment back.
Time to put the tools away while my partner and eldest daughter start to clear the lounge for the decorator in the morning. Time for tea and to watch His Dark Materials. I laze in the bath to ease the ache from a day of being on my knees and get myself ready for my 28 day injection tomorrow morning. Its that time of month again and if if goes like the last few I’m going to feel crap for a couple of days. I’m beginning to just want to get to Christmas and be in the newly decorated house in the warm.
