… forgot me yet again this morning!
And there I was, deep in the arms of Morpheus, miles from anywhere on this planet when the alarm went off. And I struggled downstairs pretty quickly, remembering the other day how I had been pris au dépourvu in my nightie by the nurse and vowing not to repeat that ever again.
And then after breakfast, I waited … and waited … and waited. And then that was that. I gave it up and went and sat down in the living room feeling rather annoyed. I could have had a wonderful lie-in for a change had I known that he wasn’t going to come.
So where was I then when I was away with the fairies?
I was actually off again playing cricket last night – something that I’ve done on one or two occasions just recently. And if you remember, I did say that if ever I were to be invited to play cricket for a team, it would be as a wicket-keeper before anything else. Certainly not my bowling, which is what I was doing last night. And my bowling was, as you might expect, pretty wayward but somehow it kept confusing the opposition and I ended up taking more than my fair share of wickets. One ball went hopelessly wide but the batsman waved an unnecessary wand at it and top-edged it down to a rather short long-on. Another ball that I sent down was a rather inviting dolly and received exactly what it deserved. It flashed past me and I just instinctively stuck out my right hand and much to the batsman’s dismay and everyone else’s (including my) astonishment, I caught it. and this meant that the batting team was all out for 66, which was quite a cause for celebration.
And then I missed the celebrations because the alarm clock went off.
What I’ve done today is to update my Open Office to the latest version. When I bought this laptop last year, I downloaded the current version but when I came to use the spell-checker today I found that I had forgotten to download it. And that led to the upgrade – together with the new spell-checker.
And once the spell-checker had been installed, then do you remember all of the dictaphone notes that I was transcribing over the last month or so? Then I spell-checked all of the Canada notes and now they are ready for the next stage of the process – viz. the tying in of the notes to the relevant photos that I took while I was over there on my travels.
We had a lovely surprise as well this afternoon. The beautiful smells coming from the kitchen turned out to be Liz’s first attempt at making home-made banana muffins (made, of course, with home-made bananas), vegan of course. And they were beautiful, especially with a nice hot coffee. Sitting inside with warm oven-fresh banana muffins and hot coffee watching the snow-storm that was raging outside was really pleasant.
So I don’t know what is going to happen now. The nurse is yet to arrive and it’s starting to be late – at least for me these days anyway. I’ll be going for my post-prandial perambulation in a minute and then I’ll be off to bed, whether he comes or not.
And even as we speak, the nurse turns up. 30 minutes late but there we are.
