I am optimistic that we have a reasonable holding position at the home base.  We have our ‘adopted daughter’ providing a carer sit on Monday and Friday mornings.  The jury is still out on what we are going to do about the Wednesday sit: we have cancelled for the last couple of weeks.  So we know our house will feel more like a home a couple of morning a week with ‘family’ popping in to provide much needed company.

On occasions we feel stuck in the sticks and quite lonely here in Cleethorpes.  Immediate family are all a couple of hours drive away and members of extended family are getting thinner on the ground.  I am sure all of this adds to the ‘wanting to go home syndrome’.  Living at the coast we tend to get more visitors in the summer from our land locked  relatives. This weekend will be another one of those happy occasions as my eldest daughter and her family will be along for crabbing on the beach.

With the nights drawing in we need to plan ahead; to help us cope as visitors become less frequent and strolling along the Prom becomes less attractive.  Seeking Winter Sun used to be one of our pleasures in life.  We have often spent the period around Christmas in Portugal.  Those who have divorced will understand the need to ‘run away’ for the Festive Season to avoid complications.

If we are to seek Blue Sky in the winter we need to build up to such an adventure.  Since Maureen’s stroke she has remained at home: we haven’t even managed more than a 50 mile circular car journey around Lincolnshire.  So there is a fair bit of confidence building to take place if my aspirations are to be realised.   We have to start somewhere and an opportunity to start the ball rolling is on the horizon.

It is Maureen’s brothers birthday at the end of the month and she would love to pop across to Nottingham in to see him.   I am optimistic that such a journey is not beyond us and may just start the things moving on the travel front.  I intend to deal with any reluctance on Maureen’s behalf to travel or support my needs, and aspirations, in a later post. This will follow on from ‘What About the Primary Carer?’ posted yesterday

One other point on the Sky is Blue thinking: I just have to mention that my footie team are top of Division One at the moment.   Coventry City (the Sky Blues) are unbeaten after the first three games of the season.  Lets hope we will be in Portugal some time in the winter celebrating that the sky is blue and the Sky Blues are on the way up to the Championship.