Tales of Jill

Now today as I lie amidst the comfort of my own bed with thoughts of ‘Tales of Jill’ running thru my head..the daylight has dawned but it is only early morning as I heard my husband stretch, get up and walk away yawning..So I wonder, what can I write about now ? I have hit a little stumbling block with this chapter somehow, coz I have talked about my children and their children enough and their lives when they were still at school with their friends and stuff.. I don’t want to just waffle on for hem and haw sakes but I will say this ‘What a differece a year makes’ As I reminisce about all the fun we had by this time last year, I had turned sixty in the April without anything to fear..I was absolutely spoilt something rotten, with all the presents and surprises from my folks that I’d gotten..I had two completely different holidays but both on the waters from birthday presents from my husband and my three darling daughters.. Just days after my birthday Robert and I drove away to Bowness-on-Windermere and that was lovely I can say with blue beautiful cloudless skies so clear.. Now I think that was the first of my holiday celebrations but there was quite a few throughout last year with those special vacations. Robert and I was going on an Aegean cruise in the June, well I just couldn’t wait and I was over the moon.. I can recollect that only days before we went away, ‘dam and ooops’.. I dropped a big picture ontop of my right foot and it hurt like hell, ‘Oh poops’ I never went to the doctor, though it was abit bruised with a swell, yet apart from the pain in my foot well I felt very well..I can remember leaving our home and sitting on an aeroplane, all excited for Rome.. we stayed overnight not too far away from the sea.. as we watched and waited with intrepidity.. then our huge ship, the Emerald Princess came onto the pier, so we both walked down to the port with our cases coz it was very near..Well for over two weeks we chillaxed on that cruise liner where the world was wonderful and nothing could be finer.. It was the little things like the dipped chocolate strawberries that were brought to our stately room and the beautiful bouquets of flowers in fresh, full bloom.. that made this holiday special and set it well apart and those gorgeous Greek islands will always remain close in my heart.. So we wined and dined and took little boats to the shore, where we wandered around the lovely locations and ate and drank galore.. haha but Oh what fantastic fun we both had and thank goodness that wasn’t arranged for this year, coz we wouldn’t have got and I would have been very sad..

On the last day of the cruise we vacated the ship in Barcelona and went on a sightseeing bus to soak up it’s sheer persona.. yes I liked this huge city rather alot, with the hustle and bustle on ‘Las ramblas’ that it has got..our hotel that we stayed over for just one night was the best one I have ever been in, that was such a delight.. then we said our farewells and boarded an aeroplane for the UK, now that cruise was such a memorable special holiday.. Well I went to see my Doctor when I got back and he took one look at my foot, it was very sore and a little bit black..He said you have broken two bones so you will have to rest, but I told him we were going on a narrow boat and I would try my best.. I got a long, big, black moonboot after an xray and it took me ages to get used to that I have to say.. Never-the-less before one week had passed over, Bob and I were sailing a Welsh canal in the ‘Cob’s wren’ as our cover.. teehee this was something neither of us had ever done before and I steered whilst he managed the locks with that tricky trapdoor.. Haha we cruised over the Llangollen canal..and I stood in my moonboot with the steering wheel, eeh what a gal !!! The weather was wonderful for that entire week, which was just as well it wasn’t bucketting down.. as I had steered, so to speak..

Then last September Robert and I flew away once more, back to trace yon old familiar haunts of the Jersey countryside and shore.. This seaside island feels just like our second home.. it reminds us of our homelands with the greenery and sea foam.. So that was yet another holiday spent relaxing in the sun, as I write telling you of my last years fun..Nowadays things of very dire straits when everybody’s holidays have been cancelled, stuck inside their garden gates..This doom and gloom began in the early Spring and before the word Covid-19 was ever heard, no one knew of such a thing.. some said it had started when Chinese people had eaten bats in Wuhan, well God know’s how this ever happened but it had caused so much dam ruin...When every school was closed and everybody was in isolation as the Coronavirus infection spread changing our civilization.. National governments across the world lands addressed the nation with new rules and demands..Though exercise was essential, folks stayed indoors amidst the isolation boredom and their worrying abhors..From the month of March for the entire Spring people kept their social distancing from others to try and help this thing..Online shopping seemed the only thing that was doing well, though toilet rolls and hand sanitizer was as scarce as hell, people had went out panic buying, causing scarecities of essentials with shortages of supplying..and on the 4th July the bad infection had eased abit amidst the UK though it was still rife in America and causing dismay.. Covid-19 is invisible and is a contagious beast, as it clandestinely causes chaos with it’s infectious feast..Only yesterday within our locality new rules and regulations has been put in place, and some will adhere to this whilst others will simply ignore it all and think it is a disgrace..But alas Covid-19 is still constantly about and it is spreading fast and wide, so now we are not allowed to mix with other households outdoors or in as it spreads worse inside.. even our own families have to keep well away, splitting up loved ones amidst families, it really is a mess I have to say.. Now I do not have the foggiest clue if and when this Coronavirus will end, yet I know it is taking it’s toll on many people and almost driving them around the bend..One can only look forward to the day when vaccinations are distributed to everyone and it goes away...