It is good to get back to something like normal. Christmas, especially when it falls at the weekend, is such a disruptive time. You never quite know what will be open, what closed. And even if it is open, is it going to be heaving with people? The food shops never re-stock their shelves well in the course of the week to the New Year bank holiday, so you can't be confident that you'll be able to find what you want, especially if you are hoping for something with a short shelf life such as bread, veg or fish.
I think this is part of my pre-Christmas blues. I don't take stress well these days & disruption from routine is stressful. When it is disrupted for my pleasure eg going on holiday, I can cope fine. But when it is imposed on me, it is a different matter.
So it is with great pleasure that we set off on our chores yesterday. At last we've found a bathroom shop which shares some of our feelings about bathrooms. So far we seem to have seen providers for disabled people who only seem to provide bathrooms suitable for a hospital, clinical & aesthetically unpleasing, or the usual providers where you can get aesthetically pleasing but where they have no concept of practicalities as far as a disabled person is concerned. By a flat entrance to a shower area, for example, I mean just that, not something with a small lip for me to trip over. At last we seem to have found a company that believes that even a disabled person has the right to have a nice bathroom that is a pleasure to enter. They are coming on Friday for a measure up, so we're hastily trying to decide on sink designs etc that most appeal to us. We finally think we've found our supplier.
I'm even looking forward to a quick food shop today - just a top-up trip. Hopefully the shelves should be fuller & we may actually be able to buy the bread we like, unlike when we went last week. Things are returning to normal, thank goodness.
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