Thursday 24th of September 2020 - Daily Trials with Mother - Well I cannot believe that it is almost three weeks since I wrote my Blog, but that said I have only just had my cast off my broken wrist, so I haven't been on the laptop much lately. However I now have a splint for my wrist so I can do light duties so long as I wear that for the next two weeks I am sure I will be able to write a bit more. Plus after today's chat with Mum I really need to vent!! Not that I haven't wanted to rant this last few weeks on quite a few occasions, but that's another story. You may remember Mum wanted a shelf fitting in her electric box, something the council said they couldn't do two weeks ago, I certainly couldn't do it so I asked Gary if he would kindly do it - even though he Hates D.I.Y. Hmm I certainly didn't marry him for those skills, but anyway we went and bought the wood for the shelf and two weeks later yes you guessed Mum is still asking when will Gary get around to fitting her shelf. There are only so many times you can say 'I don't know!' but hopefully he will fit it soon as even I am getting tired of being asked, especially as I can't do it myself!
However that's not my only frustration today, when I popped round to see Mum yesterday, as she was going shopping with her neighbour by taxi to Morrisons, she asked me to set up her mobile phone with her preferred taxi number so she could easily select it today to come home. Mum went to put the mobile on charge again but I said no, switched it off and told Mum to put it in her pocket ready for shopping today. Apart from that Mum asked me to order her vitamins online, as I had done previously and handed me a minute scrap of paper with the names on, which I duly ordered. Whilst there I also ordered a new Harrison Drape Curtain Rail, "which of course will need putting up along with my shelf! When do you think Gary will put that in for me?" Me - "I really don't know Mum". Later Mum rang me and asked "When you ordered my vitamins, did you order me some 'Echinacea?" I immediately asked "Was it on the list?" (Knowing it wasn't) Mum "Well no, but I had it last time, it was on the old invoice I showed you!" Me - "Yes but you gave me a list and it wasn't on there!" Mum - "Well I thought you would have remembered I needed those! You know they are really useful especially in the winter!" I shake my head and put my phone down, Gary looks at me and says "Not again! What is it this time and why is it always your fault? Your Mum is unbelievable!"
I thought Mum probably wouldn't want much on the 'Click n Collect' which I would be ordering tonight after she had been shopping - how wrong I was! When I spoke to Mum late this afternoon she could not stop telling me "what a horrendous experience they had had whilst shopping in the local supermarket, what with the one way system in and out, the queueing to pay system which went on for ages, etc and then to top it all off my mobile wouldn't work!!" shrieked Mum. When I tried to tell her "well you know how I felt about the supermarket" all she said was "Yes but did you hear me? my mobile didn't work!" Me - "Well did you switch it on?" Mum - "Well you didn't tell me to switch it on, you just said to put it in my pocket and it would be ready!!" Me thinking Talk about wanting to scream! Unbelievable! I then asked whether Mum needed any shopping, "Of course I need some shopping although I won't get the ready meals as I think I will have enough with the Trout I picked up, if you can get the rest?" Trout seems to be my Mum's latest fixation, although I suppose at least that is better than the Chinese Meals that she has been hooked on throughout 'Lock Down.'
Just as well I also bought a fresh Trout whilst we were out shopping in Lytham, our 'Thursday Date Day' that we have just started to give ourselves a break and try to remain sane! Today was particularly lovely as we went out to buy my Birthday present, so had a lovely look around Lytham and really enjoyed the change. However sometimes like today my Mum can ruin even the best day!! Thirty pounds worth of 'click n collect' shopping ordered later, (Gary can never get over how much my Mum can eat in a week) plus after numerous comments asking me to make sure they picked the plumpest celery. "Not a scrawny one" like the one I picked up earlier this week at the Co-op, after Mum forgot to add it to last weeks list and I surprisingly forgot to add it to the click n collect shopping!
Have we really got another six months of all this Covid nonsense? I really don't know whether I will survive any more of this with my Mum and think as soon as I can take her shopping I will do that instead and suffer the consequences no doubt! Boy what a day if it's not one thing it is definitely Mother!! or her blasted shelf!
