Lockdown Diary - Thursday 17th December 2020
Cleaner's here, I've been up, exercised and dressed for over an hour. The first part of today's mission, should I choose to accept (yeah, right!), is to give her a card and present. We have a brief discussion of Christmas Eve, a week today, and I say we'll not need her to come that day - it gives her a break (does anyone want to be cleaning someone else's house on Christmas Eve?) and it means everyone can have a lie in. Well, when I say everyone, I really mean everyone except me. Plans have yet to crystallise, but I'm probably going to be making the starter for Christmas Day's dinner, plus I'll probably have other shit to do. My plan from this far away will to be ready to chill by the evening. What was that? Did I just see...? No, it can't have been? Come on, pigs cannot fly, you know that. Where was I? ' The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men / Gang aft agley ' Cleaning continues against a backdrop of more Christmas stuff, but I have to p...