Our New Life in Devon

 OH caught a bug and was poorly 2 weeks ago, spending 3 days mostly in bed and not eating. It was a sore throat, bad cold and cough. Probably the latest covid according to the symptoms on the Internet. He moved into the spare bedroom but I did tell him not to bother. The last time I moved bedrooms I still caught it and have now caught it again. I knew it was coming as I fell asleep on the sofa in the day, a sure sign I'm going to be ill as I never nap in daytime. At the moment the cold has almost gone but I'm coughing quite a lot. Praying I don't get another chest infection as I have COPD, so it would be antibiotics and the dreaded steroids again. And then look forward to having hairloss 5 week later, which is a known side effect. Another sign is one of my dogs constantly sniffing at my throat and chest before I feel ill. She's never been wrong yet. Son came for a few days but haven't seen daughter and granddaughter for a few weeks now. They usually come in half ter...

Sorting the daughter's junk she left me to sell was going well until Friday. In one of the boxes was a pair of fairy wings, ears, a flower hairband and a wand. I spoke to daughter and said I would give it to the charity shop so some little girl could have it to dress up. It went to the charity shop and the next day she wanted it back! Apparently granddaughter is playing a fairy in the school play. Too late sorry. Then, yesterday, I had just finished listing her dresses when she rang to say she'd sold them on Vinted, and could I post them if she sent me the label? Finding the label took over half an hour as my laptop email had just updated and put every email in alphabetical order - all 600 of them from the last 6 years! So I spent the rest of the afternoon packing the dresses and deleting 200 out of date emails. The 400 left can all be sorted another day. I looked on Google for how to sort it back to 'most recent', and that's for another day, too.  We actually put t...