Catching my beath after Xmas.

in 500 Words a day2 years ago



Not literally.



But kinda.

Caught the old corona last week.

Felt like i was taking a pregnancy test. It was positive.



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We can laugh about it now.

Luckily it's this new weakened version that has taken over the country. Ten times the transmissions with only a fraction of the hospitalizations.

I didn't have any of the symptoms and while we are doing the mandatory quarantine. It has actually been a nice break away from everybody. We had our Christmas and then tested positive on the Tuesday afterwards.

We did miss a few visits and events but overall it was a very easy quarantine. No symptoms at all and no sickness over the period. Not so bad.

It's been a good chance to get things back to normal and get the house fixed up. There are always lots of jobs to do and we have been very productive for the past few days.

Now I have gotten negative results and can get back out into the world again. It was nice while it lasted.


Hoping for a bit of extra work.



My girlfriend got a message from her friend on Instagram yesterday. Normally a girl looking for my number would set alarm bells ringing but in this case it was for her father. He is renovating a country pub and i met him in a different pub on Xmas eve.

He knew my girlfriends father and we ended up chatting for a good while, as you do in the pub after a few pints. I did tell him that i was in the area and between jobs to which he said he might be looking for a bit of day labor.

As with most pub conversations i put it in the back of my mind since nothing comes out of 99% of these plans but this was him looking for my number yesterday. She said that he would give me a call and hoped that i would be around on Wednesday.

Sounds good to me. Getting out and about again with a bit of work on a building site would be a nice change of pace. I have no qualifications but happy to get my hands dirty and do a bit of work.

They have bought an old run down pub in the middle of nowhere and i would think that the plan for now is just to gut the whole thing down to the walls. Get it ready for the real builders to come in and do a job on it.

If i get the call. Happy to do a few days.

If not, I'll just keep working away from here for the week. Either way i can earn a few pounds but it would be nice to get the exercise and break a sweat.

I'm not used to spending so much time at the computer and think it would be a good change of pace to do some manual work.



It's been a good reset



We had a nice break and looking forward to getting back to routine and the little man back to creche. It has been lovely but we need a break from the break. If you know what i mean.

That's what the holidays are for and i definitely enjoyed the time off. Now to get back to the grind.