Day nine: 50th birthday came and went. And it was a lovely day. A couple of unexpected gifts arrived and our friends dropped around with a cake and present for me because they'd guessed I wouldn't have one. I was actually gearing up to ring a colleague at work to ask her to pick one up for me and drop it around because she loves close by when this lovely surprise happened. We chatted briefly through the front fly screen, observing social distancing and then I had a little cry at the kindness of people. At dinner time we opened a bottle of Perrier Jouet I'd bought (thank you Uncle Dan!) for the occasion and Skyped with a few people. A good day.
Since then, I have emptied the spare fridge and been basically using it to manage the (slight) overabundance of food that MrSuze panic bought online when we got home and that arrived on Monday. I have made soups, and a casserole is in the offing today. Also, I made two loaves of sourdough white bread to supplement the brown bread we have and learnt how to make sourdough hot cross buns (this was a surprisingly easy thing to do and I will do it again soon!). Leftover sourdough starter will be used today to make crackers for cheese (you have to feed it up to use it and this creates a lot of waste, which people have learnt not to waste!). Weeding has been done, but the darn green bin is chokkers and I need it emptied before I continue with that endeavour. I have had two phone consults with medical professionals and one with work as I am technically still on annual leave.
Basically, as I am well, I'm getting a pooload of stuff done. Hubby and I have been talking about maybe tackling the cracking of the walls of the house (it's plaster and lathe, and basically every wall in the house moves when the weather changes - we HOPE the house isn't actually falling down very slowly, but it is 93 years old). The only downer is the inability to leave to go to Bunnings, pick up our post and get a walk in. Otherwise, I've started to enjoy it.