Another week gone by

So how has a whole week gone by so quickly?

P was on a First Aid course on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and I had plans.

What actually happened though was that in the middle of the sermon on Sunday I started sniffling. On Monday I woke up and thought 'I don't feel very well I'll have a bit of a lie-in' and woke up in the midde of the afternoon. I felt quite a lot better on Tuesday and on Wednesday was well enough to go out for lunch with a friend.

Thursday morning we went to a Christmas Fayre (!) where we bought just a couple of presents and got in lots of peoples' way with the wheelchair. Thursday afternoon I made a load of tuna pasta bake and veggie sausage rolls for J. 

Friday morning it was German again and discovered that the two new people have both done a lot of German before as in she has a degree in it and his mum was German but they say they've forgotten a lot of it. Both seem very nice. 

Then it was home for lunch, four hours in a traffic jam and a visit to J. We were staying in a different B & B and we had an annexe with a living area and kitchen as well as a bedroom and bathroom. Luxury!

Only problem was the bed. We spent the night feeling like we were each sliding down a slope into the centre. This was because that's exactly what we were doing as we disovered in the morning when P realised the central spine supporting the slats had collapsed. I hadn't had much sleep.

Of course just because a student's parents have spent the cost of a B & B, several hours in traffic and exhausted themselves making pasta bake is no reason for that student to get up early. After our continental breakfast, checking out of the B & B and hanging around in the uni coffee shop J finally got up. 

We headed into town and discovered that the route to our usual parking place was blocked by a road closure. At this point my satnav had a brainstorm and led us several miles out of our way. Finally we found a parking place and had lunch in our favourite café. I had vegan shepherd's pie because I am trying to be healthy. This is to do with my cholesterol level apparently being sky high (!).

Then we tried to navigate to an outdoors shop, in order for J to buy some walking shoes, guided by P's satnav. Only slight problem was that it hadn't picked up on the fact that the shop closed down two years ago. Never mind.

Journey home was good.

Then we went to a quiz in the village and we were on my friend Becky's team which is good because she's brilliant at quizzes. P got quite a lot right as well and I did ok-ish really. Anyway we won which made me feel ridiculously excited.

(Fact to remember for the future: the smallest state of the USA is Rhode Island).

My brain having been activated so late in the evening was reluctant to switch off and go to sleep - as in I got to sleep about 5.30.

Somehow I got out of bed this morning in time for church which was good because it was all about trusting God to keep His promises to us. Which is something I really need to do.

First day back at German

This is me blogging again after six months. Quite a lot has happened and not all of it has been easy. Some of it has been really difficult. I can't really talk about most of it though.

Anyway here I am on October 5th 2018 and today I went back to German for the new academic year and P didn't. He's given up. Feels he hasn't got time. To my surprise three of the others have also given up but two new people are apparently going to join us.

P dropped me off with my scooter and I managed fine, with the others holding doors open for me. The first day we have to do lots of assessments to see where we are at. The teacher said I am doing well with my speaking because even though I can't always remember what changes at the end of the word I know that something does change. Actually (don't tell anyone) she's going to give me some extension homework which she isn't giving to the others. Wow. To be honest though I do work at German. Could work even harder really; perhaps I will.

It was nice to catch up with the others anyway.
 
 P picked me up afterwards, we had a quick lunch then went to visit Mavis. There is a bit of a long saga to do with Mavis. Been a bit stressful. May write about it later.

Then we went to the tip to get rid of a few bits and pieces. Then we had a lovely 'walk' along the river in the sunshine.