next year all our troubles will be miles away

[pensnest]

Soooooo.... mixed bag today.

Beast got my bug, and took a Covid test today. It was positive.

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I sneaked, masked, into Sainsburys and bought twenty Covid tests by mistake. I meant to buy four, and was not surprised enough that the boxes were rather large.

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I found a magpie skeleton in the algae-ridden contents of one large bin at the bottom of the garden. Another such bin contains one or possibly two magpie corpses and what looks like a flayed squirrel. It is disgusting. Also wtf, magpies?


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Our large freezer seems to have the spent the night warming up. Beast spotted this at some point this morning (it was at room temperature) and Took Steps, and it is cooling down again. But my lunchtime chocolate covered mint ice cream onna stick had to be eaten with a spoon. Chocolate casing: still good; contents: very soft indeed.

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In better news (phew!), our new printer arrived today. It is mighty, and has a scanner on top like a lookout tower. It prints—in colour, which the elderly laser printer has not done for ages, since we didn't want to replace the cartridges.

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We tried to help our Boy yesterday with prepping for his job interview tomorrow. Good luck, Boy! It mas been a very long time since he interviewed for anything, as he has made minimal but steady progress for over a decade with his current employer, and is more interested in being comfortable than successful.

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I continue to be entertained by Bridgerton. I don't mind the dazzling colours of the costumes, for I am partial to bright colours and a good bit of glitter, too, but I growl at the sight of a long, white, modern wedding gown with train and veil. Give the poor bride something a bit nicer than last year's net curtains, please! I like the multicoloured cast—although I believe Regency England was somewhat more mixed than our media have generally made it out to be, it's nice to see a world where nobody is remarking upon it (well, not quite nobody, but it's generally just *there*). And everybody is ridiculously good-looking, of course. I don't think the Duke of Hastings has an equal yet, but there are competitors.

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I planted those four fuchsias at long last, and pulled out the self-seeded currant that was growing in my hostas-and-fuchsias bed. And what appeared to be a baby silver birch, which I have transplanted in the hope that something pretty may result. It'll probably turn out to be something quite different, if indeed it survives at all.

Comments

[kitarella_imagines]

Ugh. Have you had Covid before? We found that paracetamol is like a magic potion to calm Covid symptoms. If you have some of that, it's well worth taking.

Hope you all feel better soon😊

[pensnest]

We've both had Covid two or three times, oddly, we've taken turns! I don't understand how one of us could be affected and the other not, but there. This time, I do seem to have passed what I had last week on to my Beast. But it was no worse than an unpleasant cold. We've both taken Hot Lemons, which I think does contain paracetamol. I'm still a bit bunged up, and Beast is no worse than yesterday. We're just fretting about our all-day singing rehearsal, scheduled for this Sunday....

[kitarella_imagines]

That is odd indeed, I suppose maybe different versions of Covid affected you differently? Years ago my husband and daughter were knocked out with some kind of virus, they were bed ridden for days, while I only had a blocked up nose and could function more or less normally. Illnesses are weird!

I caught covid from him a few years ago, I had a killer headache, felt sick, felt like all the energy had been drained out of my body, I was ill for 2 weeks, he was the same.

Yes, anything with paracetamol will help. Not sure about the singing though, see how you go. Good luck xoxo

[pensnest]

It was certainly very useful not to have both of us laid low at the same time! Interestingly, he had to spend a day and a half in bed after his first Covid jab, and I had no worse than a sore arm from mine. We had different ones, I think mine was Pfizer and his Astro-Zeneca. I remain baffled as to how we managed not to exchange Covids, I suppose it may have been a matter of timing and who had better resistance at the time—I had my vaccine first, being diabetic, so we were not in synch from the start.
I tested negative this morning, he's still showing positive. So the singing may be a bit of an issue!

[kitarella_imagines]

Yes it is useful. One can look after the other.

I just had a dead arm and felt pretty sick after my covid jabs, can't remember what type they were. Whereas husband felt absolutely fine.

Maybe it was timing with you two? Or indeed some kind of resistance. As I said, illnesses are weird aren't they!

It does sound like singing will be an issue 😞

[minoanmiss]

*sends all good vibes and tells the animals to die somewhere else*

[pensnest]

Yes! Dammit. And I will be emptying out those bins (*shudders*) and upending them. The theory my FIL worked on (for they were his bins) was that they would capture precious rainwater, which of course they do, but not much. I think we can live without it.

[jacieleigh]

I'm sorry you and Beast are under the weather, especially with COVID. I'm thankful I've never had it, but with Bozo in charge they're trying to make it very difficult to get vaccines this year. I swear, they are trying to KILL people over here, especially people on Medicare and Medicaid. Killing people off seems to be their plan to cut costs.

[pensnest]

I suppose culling the weak is attractive... to a certain kind of person. Who will no doubt react differently if they get ill themselves (see that Senator(?) who needed an ectopic pregnancy dealt with).

He's still positive. I tested negative this morning, and after a good night's sleep am feeling *so* much better!

[watervole]

You're saying someone put dead magpies and a squirrel in your bin?

Do you think someone shot them? Should the police know?

Lord! White wedding gowns didn't come in until Queen Victoria!

I have no problem with mixed casting, but zero forgiveness for bad history...

[turlough]

Sounds like you will be well prepared for any future outbreaks of suspect colds!

How very disgusting finding things like that in your bins!

I hope Boy's interview went well.

Good luck with all your plants!

[turps]

I hope you and Beast are feeling much better by now.

But man, that was a gross find in the bins!