Week 15

A miserable, grey and rainy week.  What do we do this week?  Tom has left school, but the term isn't over yet.  Mrs Clements sent her home schooling email out but put added a caveat for Tom's bubble, saying they didn't need to do any of it but please send an email at the end of the week saying what they had been up to.  This week's topic was countries of the world and an activity was to make a poster of a country they would like to live in.  Tom wanted to do this - choosing Malaysia.  Great, but working on a poster I found extremely frustrating: Tom is very slap dash, doesn't care how it looks, just wants to do it - that is his whole approach to art activities.  Whilst, I on the other hand would like to plan it out so it looks nice and is logical - so we clash.  I tried so hard to keep my cool but it is very very hard!  

The problem is that every time I get 

The Doe in good flow

frustrated with him, I probably erase a bit of his confidence, so I shouldn't - but it is so hard because he just doesn't seem to have a clue!

Oh hum.  Tom spent most of this week with blocked sinuses brought on by his

hayfever, so we had lovely lie-ins, breakfast and then Tom would run himself a hot bath to steam his sinuses out.  That then left about an hour before lunch where we worked on the poster. 

Afternoons were spent playing board games (Wonders of the world, Articulate, Monopoly etc) and of course pool / snooker.  Then a film until tea time.  Matt did try to take Tom out for a bike ride, but after ¾ mile Tom said he couldn't breathe properly so they came home.  Thinking he has got slightly asthmatic like I did - so will get his inhaler out for next time we attempt it.

A stroll along the Prom

Not the most interesting of weeks but Tom needs to recover and with the constant rain outside, there really hasn't been much else to do.

Before Covid, we would have been insanely bored this week, but we have slowed down so much and learnt to amuse ourselves at home that it really hasn't been that bad.  

Saturday - we headed to Morecambe for a walk along the prom - it was supposed to be better there.  It wasn't!  We got absolutely soaked walking to the Stone Jetty and back, but it was needed - Tom and I had hardly been out of the house all week.  We then went to Atkinsons for fish and chips and at them in the car (again) at Hest Bank in the hope of seeing some trains.

Blea Moor on a blea day

Sunday - we woke to no rain - NO RAIN!  However, it was very windy, and by the time we had breakfast it was raining again.  Oh hum, Tom had his daily bath, we had lunch and then we headed out to Ribblehead for a walk (haven't been there since February) we did the usual circuit and then walked up to the aqueduct.  On the way back we got caught in a heavy shower of rain - so we arrived back home drenched and very wind swept - oh almost forgot to say, today we had to wear our bobble hats it was so cold and windy.  Yep.  Bobble hats.  In July! Three hot showers later we were feeling human again, but really should July have this weather?  Take me back to April!

Oh - pubs, restaurants, B&Bs, hotels, campsites and other leisure venues opened up on Saturday.  We have stayed away.  Figure the morons will be out first, also venues will be testing their procedures etc.  Will give it a couple of weeks and then head out.

And it was the 72nd birthday of the NHS today so at 5pm we had a last clap for the emergency services.  They were all out again with sirens and lights flashing.  I took a video: