In November the fantastic Toyota Land Cruiser was sold and a a much smaller vehicle from Lexus purchased and also its a hybrid so we are joining the partly electric brigade. The thought should just one of us be living in Piplin was to much and the work involved in selling and moving is also tough perhaps when recovering from the loss of a loved one was to difficult to consider and hence the house on the market. Three days before we left the UK we agreed a sale price and matter passed to Solicitors and sometimes no news is good news but suddenly not in case as the buyer has started hesitating for reasons to be fully established anyway lets wait see what happens over the next few days.
So what do we do when in Florida, we are no good supporters of restaurants as we can as a good a dinner at home as out and at less cost but most importantly for Noel we know exactly what's in it. In our earlier visits to Florida we have been out for dinner and I enjoyed the fried coconut prawns and not knowing that Coconut and deep fried food is not good for me caused me many concerns on the way home in the car, I don't want to repeat that. Similarly Pizza seems to upset me and again after a pizza I really need to look for a loo pretty fast, not a way to enjoy an evening out and so if we do go I choose boring if not repetitive to avoid unnecessary anxiety. Talking about anxiety I read today that in a documentary about Bill Clinton and his relationship with Monica was quote ‘To overcome some of his anxiety’. Not sure Jennifer would fall for that line.
So in addition to not going out much we do shopping, go to the local market and general read, swim , eat with the occasional glass of wine. However this year I remembered that in early 2015 and on a cruise from Southampton via the West Indies and Panama Canal to San Francisco with some days with not much to do I had started to write a brief history or biography about me and eventually Jennifer as I often think that it would be really nice to discuss with my Mum and Dad and also their parents about their lives and growing up in France and during the war and what it was like having babies during this time, etc etc. And then it occurred to me that perhaps our children and their children might be asking the same question at some stage in the future and so I started writing a biography which |I thought would take not long to do. Upon returning from the cruise I planned to finish it but somehow never got around to it and then in June 2015 the BIG C arrived and I totally forgot it.
Well this year I thought I would start on it again and have finished in a couple of days but somehow as you start writing it all starts to flood back about painting my uncles car to a big accident in France to moving to Hong Kong and suddenly I am to 60 pages and only at 1978 with a lot more to go so this will take some to complete but eventually I hope to pass on to family members to read or use as toilet paper if they have not be restocked the shops after the Corona Virus outbreak.
The Corona Virus is certainly a worry but in terms of comparing to the amount of people dying from car crashes or drug overdoses and many diseases the amount of deaths and people affected is minimal and yet the Newspapers are in panic mode driving the fear so that shops are emptied of home essentials and using anything they can get their hand to cover their face although it does not make a blind bit of difference. Having lived in Asia for many years and understand that the locals wear a face mask when they are ill, Ie if they have a cold or fly they ear a mask but you don't wear a mask if you are fit and well and so you can tell who to be near or not.
With the crazy things people are now wearing such as face mask, plastic bags and boxes and anything else they think will work is quite stupid as its generally known that hand washing and not touching your face is the best way forward. Flights are being cancelled by the thousand, shops are being emptied of stock thereby creating an unnecessary shortages, the world has gone mad and supported by the media and social networks.
