After the defeat of my life-threatening illness comes rehab and I am making steady progress with it. Today was a notable waypoint on my journey back to normality: I completed the full ritual of a Saturday breakfast with Anne. Ritual? Yes. Anne and I have a set of things that we have long done at Saturday breakfasts. It is very stereotyped but it is simply the things that we enjoy doing. I will outline it:
I drove us to the Phams where I have a booking for 9am. Anne particularly likes the coffee there and they have a very good menu. We order something familiar from the menu and enjoy it. I ate the whole of one of my usual breakfasts (calamari) -- something I could not do while I was ill.
We then went to to Woolworths to pick up a few things. I always tell Anne to put her choices in my trolley and I pay for them as if they were my own, It is very rare for me to let a lady put her hand in her pocket. One of the things I always like to buy if available is Portuguese custard tarts -- and today I did score some.
Something we used to do in the happy day before Covid was to finish our visit to Woolworths by sitting for10 minutes on the seat outside and watch the passing parade. With the advent of Covid, however, they took that seat away and it has never reappeared. There was however there today an unoccupied seat a little further away. So we sat there for a while. It was good to revive that custom.
We then went to the local Vinnies to look for anything unusual that we might like. I can usually find a piece of costume jewellery that Anne likes and I buy it for her. We found today an ivory-look bangle of a sort that Anne said she had "always wanted". She was wearing a very pretty set of earrings that I had previously given her.
We then went home and lay around listening to classical music, with a cup of tea around 11am. We had a custard tart with it
Then Anne went home around 12noon with a big departure kiss to send her on her way
Below are some things I have bought for Anne recently. The item on the left is a fold-up lady's mirror
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