Today is the day of the baby shower – my wife’s youngest son’s fiancee is expecting our 2nd grandchild at the beginning of May, and has hired the village hall in Hevingham for her baby shower. My wife has done a lot of work to help out, and this morning we are all going over to the village hall to decorate the place with banners and balloons and lay out food and drink etc.
My wife leaves for Hevingham to get the keys to the hall, whilst my daughter and I head off to North Walsham to buy a gift for the baby (after taking the dog for a quick excursion).
We arrive at the village hall and get stuck in – my wife puts me in charge of balloons. I’m good with balloons, it seems! 45 minutes later the preparation is done, and I leave my wife and daughter to join in with the baby shower while I return home to Southrepps.
While the girls are out having fun, I split some logs, fill the log basket, light the fire, and sit down to think about next week. I am tweeting (on Twitter) from the @parkinsons52 account next week – each week (for a year) a different person tweets from this account, giving a different Parkinson’s perspective. I have been asked to do the tweeting for next week (starting on Monday), and I need to have a bit of a think about what exactly I’m going to tweet about!
I reluctantly leave the fire blazing away in our cosy little house to take the dog for another walk. It’s a pretty miserable day here in Norfolk – blowing a gale (again) and raining quite a lot of the time. The dog walk is briefer than usual, and even the dog can’t wait to get back by the fire.
My wife and daughter return, and my daughter and I go to Stalham to visit my mother, while my wife takes the dog over to stay with her father for a couple of days – my wife and I are travelling to Derbyshire tomorrow to visit her maternal grandmother, whose birthday it is on Monday.