Clearwater, Florida
Tomorrow is a big day for Stephen,
it doesn’t sound possible, but it will be his seventieth birthday. When the year
started this weekend would have been our sixth important event but as we have
now accepted they have all been postponed until 2021.
Steve’s birthday event was
expected to be the European Championships in Tartu, Estonia.
We both qualified for that last September in the Brighton
and Hove Triathlon. We did want to go there, since it satisfied our wander lust
as a place that we have never been to. It has been moved to the end of August
this year, which is a surprise to us both since everything else was delayed by
a year. Sometime things just don’t work out.
Tomorrow would also have been
the National Aquathlon Championships in Worthing
and that would have been nice to do also since I did win my age group in last years
Nat. Aq. Ch. A sea swim challenge for that would also have been interesting and
enjoyable and only eight miles from home into the bargain.
So Steve is planning a home
stitched event that he has not fully disclosed details of to me yet, he is
holding his card close to his chest. The weather forecast is not bad so it may
include a sea swim. The tide is high very early which suits us. So I am guessing
to myself that it may be a triathlon with long transitions but not too long
since there is celebrating to do later.
Birthday Cake make a short notice by the talented Claire Elise Pritchard, Thanks Claire XX
Tomorrow afternoon, my
daughter has been handed the post of manager for a picnic birthday meal in their
garden that is much larger than ours, and has a smart table and chairs
arrangement at the edge of the lawn. We both agreed that a seventieth birthday
could not be ignored even if a party as such, was not ever considered in the light
of the, not anything like fully over under the Covid cloud that is so slow
lifting away.
Mr Nice Guy
Steve and I nearly always
have an event or a journey set up for big birthdays, so we have had to adjust
to the circumstances this year. In fact I don’t see a time yet when we will go
anywhere to stay for a while. We had a number of theatres booking arranged for
this summer time but again they have all be postponed or cancelled. I think I
booked for four evenings during summer at the Chichester Festival Theatre alone
and I have heard from them that some bookings with be moved to 2021 and just
one day out for the ones that will be possible then but some have had to be cancelled
altogether and we have to let them know which of their suggested options we
wish to proceed with: A. Take the date the play is moved to B. Apply for a refund
or C. Donate the funds from the tickets to
the theatre to help during this difficult time with no business but plenty of
costs; Mmmmm, wish we were wealthy enough to do that but we are in the same
boat ourselves, with no business going on, no income, but the rent still being paid at the warehouse.
We had tickets for South Pacific, close to Steve’s birthday this week so that
is on hold for next year.
Just to explain the page
heading today. I don’t know what I would do without Stephen. I do call him
Saint Stephen so often, and that’s because he really is the nearest thing I
know to a Saint. He is so concerned with making sure that I am cared for and
protected and I am not just talking about the last four months. He is the
kindest person and a wonderful husband.
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