Daylight Saving

I had my Coronavirus (Covid-19) ‘booster’ jab yesterday.

Mainly because I understand that whilst the science behind it is not yet perfect, the vaccine will hopefully help to protect me from contracting a serious form of this virus. After all, I have had a ‘flu-jab’ every year, without a problem.

Along with wearing my mask in crowded places, shops and similar public spaces and regularly sanitising my hands – I feel that I am doing my best for me, for my family and for the public at large.

But at what cost!  My arm hurt so much last night that I felt at times like gnawing it off.

This morning it is still sore, but has been helped by the extra (luxurious) hour in bed that we are allowed every October when the mornings brighten up a little (but for only a short while).

Why, in this day and age do we still move our clocks backwards and forwards??? The Scots must hate it.

https://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/19684128.clocks-go-back-2021-change-clocks-uk/

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/weather/2021/02/24/why-daylight-saving-time-

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Safe Keeping

When my dad started ‘clearing out’ after my mum had gone into a care home, I managed to rescue the safe we had bought for him some years ago. He never used it and I thought that I might.

However, the timing was not quite right as we very soon moved (or had moved) into an apartment, where there really was no room for it. It couldn’t be fastened down anywhere anyhow as we had underfloor heating. So, I put it in our newly built hut.

It wasn’t fastened down in the hut either and took up space, so I decided to put some of my earlier year’s accounts in it – rather than anything that I might seriously miss if the door wouldn’t open one day. I checked that the door-code worked fairly regularly for a while but then, over a couple of winters – I didn’t – and the batteries failed. To open the door now, I needed to find the ‘emergency’ key.

When dad eventually went into the care home himself, we had cleared out his house and had found more keys than any man should own. We had found use for those we could and threw the rest away. None of them appeared to be one that might open a safe. So, for the last year at least I have wondered just ‘how’ I will open the safe and retrieve my old account records.

Well finally today, I have managed that.

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I took a hammer and chisel to the back seam (well done Yale – that’ll sort us safe crackers) and peeled back the rear of the safe. How good did I feel!!!

Guess where the key was ……

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