Think of us tomorrow...

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...especially as the weather forecast isn't good 😟  I very much doubt that neither Beverly nor I will be looking as jolly as the folk in this picture!  Still, I guess an hour in a plane is a better option at this time of year than six hours or so on the ferry 😨  Beverly ~ aka Little Miss Organised ~ is already packed; meanwhile, I've only got as far as taking my suitcase upstairs LOL  With staying at Mum and Dad's for most of the time we're down south, thankfully we don't need to take so many changes of clothing with us as we can do some washing before we move on to Hitchin for the last couple of days.

I was very pleased to get a letter re my booster jab before going away, especially as the appointment was for yesterday.  So I trotted over to Kirkwall ~ well, actually, I caught the bus LOL ~ and got it done.  I'd had the AstraZeneca vaccinations but the booster was the Pfizer/BioNTech.  You have to wait for 15 minutes at the vaccination centre after the jab, otherwise I think I would have been in time to get the next bus home.  Still, I was able to kill a bit of time by window shopping and activating my new debit card at the cashpoint; I also saw Beverly on her way to her guitar lesson, so chatted to her for a few minutes too.

I somehow managed to forget my phone, not that I needed it thankfully, and it brought home to me how dependant we are on our mobiles ~ especially as far as I'm concerned because the only number I can actually remember is our landline!  Every one else's is stored in my phone, I can't even remember my own mobile number!

I doubt very much that I will be posting over the next couple of weeks or so (no change there, Sharon, I hear you all muttering 😉) but will have more photos of the guest bedroom to share when I get back.  Mark has finished the painting and has done such a lovely job of it ~ we're so pleased 😊  Shug will probably be able to come out whilst I'm away to put the cupboard doors back on, and hopefully Ian will have done the electrics too.  Then it's just a case of waiting for the carpet to be laid and getting the bed ordered.  I think we've decided, realistically, that a 4'6" bed will be best for the space available, but I would still like to do a final measurement with the bedside cabinets and the other furniture in place before going to get it ordered.

Hopefully see you back here in a couple of weeks or so!