Dull but not disheartened

Greetings, glad tidings, and the best of Easter wishes one and all.

I was planning to report on a visit to Ted and Beryl’s abode today, but we decided to postpone it until tomorrow, as the weather is due to be nicer, warmer and more conducive to sitting outside (and therefore abiding by the ongoing and current Covid regulations).

Beryl has bought in loads of mini chocolate eggs ‘so Mathew can do an Easter Egg Hunt in the garden’ even though Mathew is too young to understand the concept, and even though we try to be very limiting with him when it comes to sugary intake. Don’t call us killjoys – there are studies that show children’s teeth can be affected even before they’re fully through the gums, and he’ll have many, many years of being spoiled rotten with sweet stuff, we don’t see the need in rushing him into the world of confectionery before he’s barely able to pronounce it.

Anyway, that’s by the by. The point is, we’re there tomorrow instead of today, so today was an unexpectedly quiet and uncluttered time of relaxation, playing and watching the same childish videos over and over again because they make my son laugh even on the eleventh consecutive time of watching. And when he laughs, I am happy.

Tonight we ate more pizza than is probably healthy, and I am now about to settle down to watch a film called “The Mauritanian” about which I hear good things.

RC 3-4-21